On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Klaus Koch wrote: >>> It is a hard problem. But our traditional approach hasn't been terribly >>> honest IMHO. > > We were talking on #freenet on how to explain new users in a few words > (installer?) what freenet's security is all about and how to "warn" them of > the shortcomings of opennet. I came up with the following text: > > "Freenet's security and anonymity is based on the idea that users connect to > people they trust. Opennet mode (=LOW security level) is a convenience feature > for new users who don't have trusted peers yet and it's security is not as > strong as darknet (= MEDIUM/HIGH security level). Use this mode to befriend > people you think you can trust. Get the highest security out of freenet by > connection to your reallife friends!" > > somehow there's still missing that even connecting to a coworker is better > than a random stranger, but I still struggle to put it into one of the > sentences...
I think the most potent reason to connect to friends is that any bad people that want to identify you are invariably going to have a large number of nodes on opennet so that they can intercept your communications. Any random node that you connect to has a chance of being one of those bad nodes, while the real-life friends you hand pick to connect to have a zero-percent chance of running such a node (unless you have a /really/ bad judgement of character). Now shorten this for newbies so they would actually read it... > > Ratchet
