Matthew Toseland wrote:
> I propose that as a darknet value-add, and as an additional tool for those in
> hostile regimes who have friends on the outside, we implement a
> web-proxy-over-your-darknet-peers option. Your Friends would announce whether
> they are willing to proxy for you, and you could choose which friends to use,
> or allow it to use all of them (assuming people on the inside don't offer).
> You could then configure your browser to use Freenet as a proxy. This would
> not provide any anonymity but it would get you past network obstacles and/or
> out of Bad Place and into Happy Place. It's not a long term solution, but:
> - We have expended considerable effort on making darknet viable: IP
> detection, ARKs etc.
> - It could take advantage of future transport plugins, but even before that,
> FNP 0.7 is quite hard to block.
> - Many people are in this situation.
> - It is easy to implement. HTTP is complex but cache-less proxies can be very
> simple.
> - It could be combined with longer term measures (growing the internal
> darknet), and just work for as long as it works. Most likely it would be
> throttled rather than blocked outright to start with, hopefully allowing for
> a smooth-ish migration of users to more robust mechanisms...
> - We could allow recursive proxying to some depth - maybe friend of a friend.
> This would provide a further incentive to grow the internal darknet, which is
> what we want.
> - The classic problem with proxies is that they are rare so hundreds of
> people connect to them, and the government finds out and blocks them. This
> does not apply here.
>
> Thoughts?
>
love it
