On 2013/07/22 (Jul), at 9:32 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > ...almost everyone argues that darknet is impossible.
I wonder if this is really b/c "hermits don't have friends", or if there is something between the theory and practice for which we have not accounted. I have put much thought into a Ronja-like FSO p2p network as of late; and it occurs to me that there may be enough implicit trust with whomever you make a FSO link with to qualify as a darknet peer (and the data is being transmitted out-of-band wrt the internet). It's probably just wishful thinking, but if such devices became popular for any reason (wireless bridge, sharing internet connections, backup internet, etc), you might be able to see an effect where the darknet would "build itself" as local networks begin to have multiple FSO links. -- Robert Hailey
