[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
at captchas are > marginally effective at best. If you think I am mistaken in that, > please explain why. From that assumption, I conclude that we need a > system that is reasonably effective against a spammer who can solve > significant numbers of captchas, but still is capable of making use of > the information that solving a captcha does provide. You cannot. Whatever you use as entry barrier, if someone is able to break it with some automatic way or with other massive attack, your are lost in one way or another. The already existing community may still work and stay, but new users wont be able to join. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/016047cf/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
s: Will it prevent enough, so almost all spam or will the amount of spam force new (and old) users to leave like it happened and happens with frost and the alice bot? -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/5825a772/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
others. This wont happen, so people will loose their Captcha-Trust and will have to solve more captchas. Annoying for everyone, and most annoying for the lazy majority. > Fundamentally, it's a question of whether you believe CAPTCHAs work. > I don't. If you start with an assumption that CAPTCHAs are a minor > hindrance at most, then if you require that everyone sees messages > sent by identities that have only solved CAPTCHAs and not gained > manual trust, then you've made it a design criteria to permit > unlimited amounts of spam. (That's bad.) If you believe CAPTCHAs > work, then things are a bit easier... but I think the balance of the > evidence is against that belief. Captchas may not be the ultimative solution. But they are one way to let people in while prooving to be humans. And you will need this limit (human proove), so you will always need some sort of captcha or a real friends trust network. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/31a3fbf3/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
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[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau >> wrote: A small number could still be rather large. ?Having thousands see it ought to suffice. ?For the current network, I see no reason not to have

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau >> wrote: >>> Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect. ?I am certain there will be some amount of spam

[freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Cl?ment wrote: >>> The ?Search Freenet? field and bookmarks are definitly a good thing. >>> However, why do we have : >>> ?Fetch a key? : we don't want to fetch a key, we want to browse Freenet. >>> >> Fetching a key is a CORE functionality, it is like the address bar in an >> internet

[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> A small number could still be rather large. ?Having thousands see it >> ought to suffice. ?For the current network, I see no reason not to >> have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it. > > If your small number is that

[freenet-dev] Freetalk/WoT: "Click here in case of flood attack"

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Raw idea, needs lots of refining: Make the default minimum trust to zero and add a panic button that would raise it, automatically marking as 'untrusted' all the ID's that haven't been manually marked as 'trusted'. (where's the elephant in the room that I always miss?)

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> That is fundamentally a hard problem. >> - Advogato is not perfect. ?I am certain there will be some amount of >> spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. >> - With Advogato, the amount of spam

[freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
is that this is SVN > > and thus vulnerable to MITMs. GWT is vast, it is not practical to review > > the source even for the two jars we would be using (gwt-dev-linux.jar and > > gwt-user.jar, total approx 15MB compiled code). -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/99ff08e4/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Saturday 23 May 2009 21:20:46 Florent Daigni?re wrote: >> * Matthew Toseland [2009-05-23 20:43:56]: >> >> > sashee is working on making the web interface more dynamic. Google Web >> > Toolkit will be used to translate some java code

[freenet-dev] The installer is NOT signed

2009-05-27 Thread xor
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[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread xor
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 23:19:53 Evan Daniel wrote: > 2009/5/26 xor : > > On Tuesday 26 May 2009 22:02:37 xor wrote: > >> On Thursday 07 May 2009 11:23:51 Evan Daniel wrote: > >> > > Why exactly? Your post is nice but I do not see how it answers my > >> > > question. The general problem my post is

[freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7 build 1211, 1212

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
Freenet 0.7 build 1212 is now available. Please upgrade. 1211 changelog: - Improve various text strings, including the search button and the config page section titles. - Fix adding noderefs that included the text "End" e.g. in an ARK key. - Minor changes to the salted hash datastore (related to

[freenet-dev] The installer is NOT signed

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 25 May 2009 22:30:17 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > On Monday, 25. May 2009 13:53:45 Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > And we learnt about it ... Yesterday. Great! We NEED to find a better > > way to get feedback from users. > > Couldn't a bug report function be integrated directly into the

[freenet-dev] The installer is NOT signed

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 25 May 2009 12:53:45 Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > After reading the rants of a user complaining about javaws not working on > #freenet, I decided to try it out: > > $wget https://checksums.freenetproject.org/cc/new_installer_offline.jar > $jarsigner -verify

Re: [freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 01:16:53 Daniel Cheng wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Matthew Toseland t...@amphibian.dyndns.org wrote: On Saturday 23 May 2009 21:20:46 Florent Daignière wrote: * Matthew Toseland t...@amphibian.dyndns.org [2009-05-23 20:43:56]: sashee is working on

[freenet-dev] Freetalk/WoT: Click here in case of flood attack

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Raw idea, needs lots of refining: Make the default minimum trust to zero and add a panic button that would raise it, automatically marking as 'untrusted' all the ID's that haven't been manually marked as 'trusted'. (where's the elephant in the room that I always miss?)

Re: [freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Clément wrote: snip The “Search Freenet” field and bookmarks are definitly a good thing. However, why do we have : “Fetch a key” : we don't want to fetch a key, we want to browse Freenet. Fetching a key is a CORE functionality, it is like the address bar in an internet browser! If

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect. I am certain there will be some amount of spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. - With Advogato, the amount of spam possible is well defined. With FMS and WoT it is not. Neither of

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM, xor x...@gmx.li wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009 16:39:06 Evan Daniel wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Matthew Toseland t...@amphibian.dyndns.org wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009 08:17:55 bbac...@googlemail.com wrote: Is'nt his point that

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect.  I am certain there will be some amount of spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. - With Advogato, the amount of

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: A small number could still be rather large.  Having thousands see it ought to suffice.  For the current network, I see no reason not to have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it. If your small

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect. I am certain there will be some amount of spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. - With

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: Evan Daniel schrieb: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect.  I am certain there will be some

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: A small number could still be rather large. Having thousands see it ought to suffice. For the current network, I see no reason not to have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it.

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: Evan Daniel schrieb: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau m...@tommyserver.de wrote: A small number could still be rather large.  Having thousands see it ought to suffice.  For the current network, I see no

Re: [freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Tuesday, 26. May 2009 19:16:14 Matthew Toseland wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2009 17:30:00 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: On Sunday, 24. May 2009 16:52:00 xor wrote: Full ACK. Friends page HAS to be separate to encourage users to establish darknet connections. Maybe we should even write

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday, 27. May 2009 19:53:01 Evan Daniel wrote: I have only very rarely had any difficulty determining whether a message was spam or not. Why would this be any different? Of course Advogato gives you the same ability, that is the entire point. The precise algorithm is different, but