NextGen$ wrote: > The user is right: > You seems to be missunderstanding the issue here: as soon as you've ticked > the opennet box, your node will announce and your ISP (if smart enough) will > know that you are running freenet. > > Switching to darknet afterwards won't help: your isp knows that you're > running freenet and that's probably all he needs.
Hiding from your ISP isn't the only reason to use darknet - opennet exposes you to a variety of attacks on your anonymity from people you don't know, so it's still worth disabling it if you can find enough darknet peers that you trust. (I don't know of any other apps that produce long-lived UDP streams with encrypted headers and payload, so your ISP can probably identify Freenet traffic even if you use darknet from day one.) Cheers, Michael
