I keep hearing arguments about how the feds arrest you if this or that is done to the protocol. But is freenet really fbi proof or just resistant?
Here's my own dramatized version of an FBI attack: User Ulysses is on your typical cable connection. He decides to start his own node, hearing that it's more secure to access data through that node. Ulysses downloads highly illegal file X. FBI suspects Ulysses because he talks too much and decides to prove that he downloaded illegal file X so they have a passable reason to throw him in jail. They take over his cable link. Freenet connections are effectively blocked. They create a virtual freenet node for ever node that he attempts to connect to. It relays information from the real node, except disallows transfers of file X. So Ulysses cant randomly pass on the query to any other node. The FBI keeps requesting X from Ulysses (perhaps over a period of a week or longer). Eventually Ulyesses offers X. The FBI can prove X is in Ulysses's possession. Ulysses is thrown in jail Ok, now what part of this conspiracy is wrong? -Larry PS. Or rather, if they want Ulysses bad enough they can tempest him. Poor guy doesn't stand a chance. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
