On Tuesday 29 July 2008 10:46, Theodore Hong wrote: > Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > Okay, well, we do need some kind of warning... We have one in the wizard, > > maybe we should just dump that to stdout? > > > > We should probably show the standard GPL thingy... > > Following the lines of the GPL disclaimer, we could have something like: > > <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> > Freenet is EXPERIMENTAL software and is NOT GUARANTEED to hide your > identity; for details about potential attacks see <web page>. > > > There's no point in frightening people so much that they don't use it. > The Tor disclaimer is another useful model I think: > > "There are three pieces of fine print you need to know about. > > 1. Tor does not protect you if you do not use it correctly. Read > our _list of warnings_ and make sure to follow the _instructions for > your platform_ carefully. > 2. Even if you configure and use Tor correctly, there are still > _potential attacks that could compromise Tor's ability to protect > you_. > 3. No anonymity system is perfect these days, and Tor is no > exception: you should not rely solely on the current Tor network if > you really need strong anonymity."
I have changed it to: "Testnet mode DISABLED. You may have some level of anonymity. :) Note that Freenet 0.7 is still under intense development, and is by no means feature complete, especially in the area of security: There are known design flaws and there are bugs we haven't found out about yet. Smart attackers can probably compromise your anonymity! This is easiest if they are directly connected to you, but (especially on opennet) they can probably find you given time even if they are not. USE FREENET AT YOUR OWN RISK. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR FREENET." We should probably get rid of the bit about testnet, although it may be useful to have it in future... > > theo -------------- 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/20080802/0fe197d9/attachment.pgp>
