I propose we ask, before the network seclevel, whether the user wants to use opennet, or darknet. Once we've asked this, we ask whether they want LOW or NORMAL (for no) or HIGH or MAXIMUM (for yes). We explain as follows:
Do you want Freenet to only connect to your friends? YES: This is much more secure, however to connect to Freenet at all you must add several friends who are usually online at the same time as you are. It is not necessary that these be ultimately trustworthy, but you must not add total strangers as this slows down the network and they are probably the bad guys: These must be people you know personally, whether online or offline. NO: This offers no real security against a determined attacker, however it will work "out of the box". You can add friends later, and then set Freenet to only connect to your friends. This is fine for testing, and may give better speed unless you have a lot of friends with fast connections. IMHO honesty is the best policy. -------------- 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/20101105/422fc0d1/attachment.pgp>
