Uhm... after reading your mail I rather got the feeling you have redefined your requirements from "bust through firewalls" to "do everything GNUnet does, the way GNUnet does them". I concede failure! :-P
I was only responding to your claim that there was only one free software application out there that helps people run servers in a firewalled and IP-address scarce world. If you had said 'anonymously' I wouldn't have written anything at all, because that is not the point of PageKite. But, really - the idea of anonymously sharing your MediaGoblin album, with your friends who you know personally, is a bit of an oxymoron to say the least. The whole things is virtually the opposite of anonymity. You might want to do it privately, and securely, using a well known protocol like SSL/TLS, but anonymously? > - I can't demand that everyone who wants to visit > > my photo albums install a GNU VPN client or an IPv6 tunnel; my photo > album > > has to work with the web browser and Internet connection they have > already. > > no you can't - but you *can* ask them to plug in a little tiny box > into the wall (which you gave to them as a christmas present) and it > juuust so happens that it has everything pre-installed and > pre-configured and/or self-configuring to do the job... > Actually, I consider this entirely unacceptable. :-) I want to be able to use my FreedomBox for public publishing, for blogging, for photo albums which can be opened up and shared with strangers I meet at the pub. You know, the stuff most people use the Internet for and today depend on Yahoo/Flickr and Facebook and Google/Blogger. I want to own my logs, as Eben talked about, so I know who is browsing my content, and I want those logs to live in my house so it takes a search warrant to get at them. In my opinion, the FreedomBox can't be *just* a darknet. It can and should have access to a darknet, and FreedomBoxes can and should prefer the most secure and private communication channels available to them and help people make use of them. But plain old publicly visible HTTPS on boring old centralized DNS names will have to be available as well, or there will be no gradual transition - and honestly, there will probably be no transition at all because the devices will be effectively useless to most people. -- Bjarni R. Einarsson Founder, lead developer of PageKite. Make localhost servers visible to the world: http://pagekite.net/
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