On Wednesday 22 April 2009 14:06:48 Romain Dalmaso wrote: > Wouldn't IRC/Jabber break anonymity ? > > Or, maybe you're speaking of IRC/Jabber over Freenet and i'm wrong ...
We are talking about getting darknet connections via IRC, and yes, there is a tradeoff. However, sending darknet refs via email or IM is also detectable unless you encrypt the mails; the only means that is really safe is swapping them on USB keys in person. > > On 4/22/09, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 13:53:45 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > >> Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 14:38:29 schrieb Matthew Toseland: > >> > > other member of the group as freenet friends, or should they only have > >> > > their closest contacts? > >> > > >> > I don't know. IMHO 150 is probably too much, have you spoken privately > >> > to > >> > all these people? > >> > >> I think all people I know privately, including school and university, > > account > >> for maybe 100 to 120 people. Of them I'd trust about 40 as connections :) > >> > >> If I add people I only know via email, these numbers go up to maybe > >> 150/50. > > > > IMHO that would be great - any of the above figures - especially when you > > take > > into account uptime problems. Practically speaking most people you know > > won't > > run Freenet. However, all the members of a mailing list or a university > > department isn't quite the same thing - 150 people for just one group, plus > > all the other groups and people... > >> > >> > > If they should have more contacts, we'll need stronger friend > > interaction > >> > > features, so we can keep the cost for social interaction with friends > >> > > low. > >> > > >> > We need stronger friend interaction features full stop. > >> > >> How about a shoutbox as first step? > >> > >> There you can send messages to all your contacts. > >> > >> Naturally each shoutbox will have different entries, so it's no real chat, > >> > > but > >> at least it would allow giving quick status messages (that's the main > >> communication i did: "Sorry, my box was down for a day - I'm up again" :) > > > > Well, you can check the box next to each peer ... but yes we should improve > > this. This might be related to vive's student's task? > >> > >> > > A Jabber server which automatically adds all friends as contacts would > >> > > > > be > >> > > an option, I think. > >> > > >> > Hmmm perhaps. > >> > >> It would also add better information about online contacts - directly in > >> the > >> multi-messenger people use anyways. > >> > >> Maybe it could even get control features, like the jabber server from > >> livejournal (you can post LJ entries via jabber). > >> > >> Another option would be IRC :) > >> > >> But both have the drawback of drawing people away from the webinterface, > > which > >> increases the maintenance cost for toad. > > > > Not sure I follow. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> Arne > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090422/6848774a/attachment.pgp>