This doesn't really mean anything for Freenet. I'm not going to claim that Freenet is *insert evil org here* proof (though that is the goal), but it is certainly a world of difference from Gnutella.
This sort of direct attacks to locate people making data available are not possible with Freenet - I do not care how much of a computer forensic officer you are. There are other attacks which are possible to varying extent, active attacks against the network topology (cancer), TA, DoS, etc, but not tracking down users just like that. On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: > i just read an interesting reaction from a computer > forensic officer > > > Name: Chief Programmer and Computer Forensics Officer > Location: Maryland, United States > Occupation: Chief Programmer and Computer Forensics Officer > > We're working on software that will scare the hell out of people > that think that Gnutella, scour, and all that other stuff is > "anonymous". I just thought that you guys would like to know that. > > We managed to lock down a Gnutella user located in france that was > hosting a bunch of files on a university laboratory computer. > The only thing we were missing was which of 5 people was currently > at the console. Gnutella makes it extremely easy to load MP3s, asfs, > and many other files with trojans. with these trojans we can > track your every download, and build up a nice database of all the > illegal, pirated MP3s you have on your machine. > > > i just thought you'd all like to know that, and ZDnet, please > stop saying that Gnutella is RIAA proof, because we've met with them > and they are very interested in what we're currently working on. > > > thanks > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
