[freenet-support] content question
Hi. I read the FAQ question that says I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do? My question is, if I use freenet, how can I tell if my computer has such content installed on my computer, and how to get rid of it when I stop using Freenet? Thanks.___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
[freenet-support] Freenet 0.7.5 build 1453 (and installer changes)
Freenet 0.7.5 build 1453 is now available. Please let us know if you have any problems updating. This includes Web of Trust version 13, which has some major improvements including much better support for recovering old identities from backups, and some minor bugfixes and robustness improvements for the updater, but the main change is to the installers: We now use an up to date version of the wrapper in both the Windows installer and the Linux/Mac installer. For new installs, this should fix some of the antivirus problems on Windows (notably issues with Freenet taking ages to restart and sometimes not succeeding at all on Kaspersky). It should also improve the stability problems on Linux when updating, where Freenet would download a new build and then constantly restart without ever successfully updating. If you see that bug on an old node, the correct fix is to shut down the node manually and start it up again (./run.sh stop; ./run.sh start). If you see it on a new node (installed at 1453 or later), please let us know that the bug isn't fixed! Finally, the Unix/Mac installer now supports a few more platforms, notably FreeBSD on x86 (32 and 64), Linux on Itanium, and Linux on ARM (both versions). This is not full support as we don't have the (optional but important) native libraries for these platforms yet, but it should install, run, and auto-update without too much trouble, rather than having to run without the wrapper. Let me know if you want any other platforms, see the download page for JSW for what we can easily support. None of this applies to existing installs. romnGit is working on a tool to upgrade the wrapper on existing Windows installs, and upgrading it on Mac or Linux should be fairly straightforward, but is not implemented yet. Thank you for using Freenet! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-support] content question
On 08/24/2013 01:42 AM, Kevin Franks wrote: Hi. I read the FAQ question that says I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do? My question is, if I use freenet, how can I tell if my computer has such content installed on my computer, and how to get rid of it when I stop using Freenet? Thanks. To answer your immediate question, you cannot - practically speaking - tell what content is stored on your computer specifically. Doing so requires a concerted effort and the use of tools that could - but to my knowledge do not - exist. Even then, you would be unable to identify everything. You can remove the content Freenet has stored on your computer by uninstalling Freenet. If you are on Windows, there is an uninstaller. I don't know about OS X. On Linux one can delete the directory Freenet is installed in. More abstractly - as to why one's Freenet node could be used to store undesirable content. Freenet functions as an encrypted storage device distributed between the hard drives of all the users of the software. Instead of storing entire files, things are stored in encrypted pieces called blocks. When you use a key - they can start with CHK, KSK, SSK, or USK - the key contains information on how to find the blocks for that file and also how to decrypt the blocks once they are fetched. Without the key it is effectively impossible to tell what blocks belong to what files, or what those files are. Philosophically speaking, Freenet is a medium for censorship-resistant communication. As one would expect this means it is designed to be very difficult to censor or block, and contains no mechanism intended to remove objectionable content. From a technological point of view one cannot have free speech with exceptions. If a capability to remove objectionable content exists, that capability can be used to censor arbitrary content. Freenet is a tool, and some people choose to use it for things that are considered offensive or objectionable. In a sense, that they are able to do so demonstrates that it has achieved something of its goal. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-support] content question
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:42:53 -0700 (PDT), Kevin Franks wrote: Hi. I read the FAQ question that says I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do? Did you? Because the FAQ quite clearly states that if this is not acceptable to you, you should not run a Freenet node. May I also ask why you are interested in Freenet at all, if you are so keen on information censorship? ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
