On Friday 14 December 2007 00:24, Matthew Toseland wrote: > The opennet warning is way too big. Currently it is: > > Warning: Promiscuous Mode Enabled: Your node will connect to Strangers > > Your node is currently running in promiscuous mode. It will connect to > Strangers, and this means that anyone can find out that you are running a > node. Most attacks are easier, blocking your node (for example at a national > firewall) is much easier, and you have no control over who your node connects > to. We strongly recommend you get some connections to Friends (trusted nodes > run by people you already know); promiscuous mode is only intended as a > temporary measure until you are able to just connect to your friends. If you > only connect to your friends, while it may be possible for them to attack > you, it is less likely than if your node is exposed to any oppressive > government agency/other bad guy who wants to connect to it. Note that adding > a peer in the Friends section does not help much unless that peer belongs to > somebody you actually know (both for routing and security reasons)! > > Suggested improvement: > > Warning: Insecure Mode Enabled: Your node will connect to strangers > > Your node is currently running in insecure mode. You have no control over who > it connects to, which could very well be the Bad Guys. Further, it is trivial > for Them to find your node. Please get some connections to people you trust > and add them to the Friends page as soon as possible, you will be much less > vulnerable. When you have at least 10 Friends, turn off insecure mode and > your node will become invisible.
Changed to: Your node is currently running in insecure mode. It is trivial for an attacker to find your node, and you could be connected to the Bad Guys right now. Please get some connections to people you trust and add them to the Friends page as soon as possible, you will be much less vulnerable. When you have at least 10 Friends, turn off insecure mode and your node will become invisible to the outside world. > > > Several issues here: > 1. Promiscuous Mode -> Insecure Mode. > 2. "Bad Guys", "Them". > 3. Shorter is better, right? > 4. Should this be completely hideable? Or maybe we should have a really short > warning after the first time and have it link to a more detailed discussion? > We need a documentation toadlet for that to work though... Bombe was working > on that. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20071214/c6ea50e1/attachment.pgp>
