On Saturday 27 September 2008 15:41, Michael Rogers wrote: > On Sep 27 2008, NextGen$ wrote: > >If someone you don't trust has physical access to your computer you are > >doomed in any case... whether freenet is running or not when he gets his > >hands on the keyboard doesn't change anything. > > It's worthwhile to protect against casual attackers even if you can't > protect against determined attackers. For example I have a password on my > laptop, even though someone *could* pop the case open and clone the hard > drive.
Nonetheless, starting the node during startup rather than when the user has logged in is an improvement, especially as we will probably have to reseed every time (making Freenet a centralised network in practice - he who controls the seednodes controls most of the network). > > Cheers, > Michael -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080927/489096f8/attachment.pgp>
