On 6/28/06, Thomas Bruderer <bruthoma at student.ethz.ch> wrote: [snip] > Well if there is no need for a darknet, why we talk about it? Either there is > a > need, and it was good you built a darknet. Or nobody wants a darknet and there > never will be success with darknet. [snip]
If darknet is only used by people who need it then it's users will have only weak anonymity. You can't hide in a crowd of one. Freenet will always be of greatest interest to people with an uncommon interest in privacy, and privacy technology. Personally I found darknet freenet more enjoyable to run because it wasn't quite so automagic. :) That it gave me an incentive to keep nagging all my friends to keep their nodes up to date and running (at least until the software just stopped working for me) is another advantage of the model. I understand the need for more inclusive systems.. but please don't make darknet useless by seperating the freenet universe into seperate opennet/darknet worlds.
