On Tuesday 30 November 2010 23:13:41 Ian Clarke wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Volodya <Volodya at > whengendarmesleeps.org>wrote: > > > But in 0,5 days there were reports of connections from IP addresses > > actually > > owned by NSA. Fun! > > Hey, if the NSA wants to run a few nodes that is fine - we don't > discriminate :-)
Agreed, it's probably a *good* thing if a few people in these companies and agencies are running nodes. HOWEVER, our security sucks (on opennet), and it is quite possible that we are being comprehensively monitored, possibly by several of these entities - the NSA in case terrorists use Freenet, the copyright related agencies in case 0day warez releases go over Freenet, and to prepare for when they have the rights for executive disconnections, the police in case paedophiles do the same thing, and so on. It would not be prohibitively expensive for any of these entities. :| Oh and university students doing projects too. There were some folk on #freenet asking about how to build a harvester... They would likely have access to sufficient computing resources for comprehensive surveillance but the competent geek-power might be an issue. Folks, if you do it, it will hurt us, but on the other hand, it will get us publicity, and when we solve the problem we'll get even more publicity, and anyway as a matter of basic integrity anyone doing serious and open research on attacks on Freenet is ultimately doing us a favour: Ask what you like, we may make you work for some of the details though. :) We did originally plan to have premix routing in 0.8; that's not going to happen now, and anyway premix is not the right technology. Random rendezvous tunnels *could* work on opennet (they would be vulnerable to Sybil but nonetheless they would be a massive improvement), but would cost significant performance. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101201/fde0e706/attachment.pgp>
