-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Or simply call it "promiscuous mode", rather than "opennet mode" - I think this captures the dangers quite concisely (the analogy to promiscuous sexual behavior is a pretty good one, since in both cases it implies trusting people when they may not deserve your trust).
Ian. On 10 Jul 2006, at 19:16, Matthew Toseland wrote: > We could have a warning on the front page when running opennet, like > with testnet: > > "You are running freenet in opennet mode. While in opennet mode, > you have > no control over who your node connects to. Note that those nodes > you are > connected to a) Know you are running freenet, and b) May be able to > attack you and identify what you are browsing or inserting. On > opennet, > they could very well be the Bad Guys. We strongly recommend that > you add > some of your friends' nodes to enable hybrid or darknet mode, which is > much safer, and helps to build a sustainable, invisible and robust > network. Even if you only have a few darknet connections, this can > greatly increase your security by sending your requests through these > nodes which you know are operated by your friends and not the Bad > Guys. > > Darknet is more secure than opennet. We should make this as clear as > possible. Obviously we should make the warning as concise as possible; > we could shrink the above down to "Warning: Opennet mode detected", > and > have a hyperlink to a fuller explanation. > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEswr3QtgxRWSmsqwRAlgXAJ4kGC9JCjHHxKUKRl96jJ0Wk35K5ACfaNeh SWGLNfa587DMDMP4NhlgCy0= =O166 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
