On Friday 05 November 2010 20:51:58 Juiceman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at > amphibian.dyndns.org > > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > One small change "they are probably the bad guys" sounds like the Freenet is > under siege by hundreds of moles and unsafe to use at all.
Which isn't a fair assessment? :) How do you get the message across then? > > > 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/20101106/ee9c2927/attachment.pgp>
