> > "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).
that's exactly what I meant with my last statement. But how could you compress that info into one short, easy understandable sentence, so that the message as a whole won't get tl;dr there's only so many words you can use before the standard user quits reading, no matter how many "!!1!", blinking lights or death threats you use to make him go through it all. imho a new user needs at least a very basic understanding of the difference of opennet/darknet so he can be honestly informed that the security he could have with freenet can not be achieved by using opennet. Sometimes I get the feeling that even people deeply involved with this project see more in opennet than it really is: an automated #freenet-refs which can be automatically attacked (and thus got way to much resources spent on in the last years imho), it will never be more, no matter how much sophisticated workarounds you put in it. Wasn't one of the main reasons for the switch to a darknet the problem of randomly connected peers? Then why is so much effort put in this opennet, which was only called to live because people had problems to get peers or did it wrong? Opennet is a convenience feature to get people bootstrapped. Put more energy into how to teach the user to use freenet properly, without scaring him away. just my (off topic) 2? Ratchet Ratchet -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101204/ca0c2dbf/attachment.pgp>
