First of all, I neglected to attach the links referenced by my first post. 1: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1314564 2: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/ 3: http://www.ledge.co.za/software/squint/squish/
On Jan 13, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Volodya wrote: >> 2. Wouldn't it be best for the ISP-connecting nodes to change "Relay opennet >> noderefs through darknet peers?" to false? Users of the cafe wireless would >> have no access to the internet, so they would be uselessly sending out >> opennet connection requests. At the same time, there's a chance that the >> ISP-connecting nodes (assuming there are more than 1) might connect to each >> other via their ISP connection, thus pointlessly wasting bandwidth. > > You would not have a connection to opennet at all, thus you would have no > opennet refs to route. In the situation described it can easily be turned off. I understand that the majority of nodes won't have access to opennet. It just seems to me that mixing a few (probably opennet-connecting) ISP-connecting nodes would create some weirdness (see above). Has anything like this ever been implemented? >> 3. What dangers would their be to setting "Write local and nearby requests to >> the datastore?" to true on nodes not connected to the internet (both cafe and >> personal computers in the community)? There would be an obvious speed >> increase with the setting set to true, so I wanted to fully understand the >> dangers for this kind of set-up. > > It would be very easy to see what somebody has downloaded on a particular > machine by examining the datastore. For example: You sit at the machine and > download a large file, then i sit at it and start downloading and notice that > the download flies (it loads from the datastore not from other nodes), i can > then conclude that you (or somebody before you) have downloaded it. In the > situation where somebody may have access to your datastore it is essential to > never cache local requests. Okay, but assuming these cafe machines are sufficiently locked down, the end user would have no way to determine whether the file is or is not locally cached. With so many Freenet nodes in the same LAN, any file would already be very well distributed and you could download from something like the same speed that you could "download" from the machine's local cache. > >> 6. Are there any potential legal allegations for hosting file refs on a local >> website that loads automatically when connected to an unsecured wifi network >> (let's assume that some of the training videos shared have copyrights)? > > This is impossible to answer without you giving the country. Let's look at > Russia for example, here it is technically illegal, but in most places is > almost > as legal as marijuana in holland. While there are laws against it, police is > more interested in taking bribes from foreigners with no papers or beating up > people. I know of several ISPs which host SHA keys of all the films, tv shows, > etc. for download from their private DC++ network. Hmmm, I see your point. Then what would be a better solution for Alex? He want's the file refs to be easily accessible to the community without wasting ISP bandwidth (thus without publishing the keys for the rest of Freenet). > - Volodya > > > - -- > http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Echo of Freedom, Radical Podcast > > "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin
