Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-27 Thread diddler4u

Evan,

You are right - there is a lot of data to show that social networks do 
expand in the method being said here, but that data is based on known, 
non-anonymous social networks. In an anonymous network the rule of thumb is 
trust no one.


If an openet is not the solution, neither is posting information with an 
embeded IP number the solution. I don't know how the openet is hackable, 
especially if node connections pr paths through nodes change randomly 
(TOR-like), but with a manually established network it only takes capturing 
1 node and the entire freenet is at risk. I would be more inclined to 
exchange node information with someone if the information were encrypted - 
private/public key. In an anonymous social network I would be more inclined 
to expand that network to others because my node information is encrypted.





From: Evan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:06:37 -0400

Please justify your assumptions.

There is a lot of data on social networks that says that is not how
they look.  I see no reason to believe the social networks a freenet
darknet would be built upon would be different.

Evan

On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yea, but you don't know all the nodes in the network, you just know
the ones your connected to. So if one of those links between the
networks goes down, half your downloads stall out and die. And
wouldn't that put a pretty big strain on certain computers? I mean, if
you get this global network of small networks...90% of the data you
request will probably be on another 'network'. The number of
connections between these networks is going to be a lot smaller than
connections within the network. Therefore the computers that connect
between them are gonna have a much greater strain on them than the
ones that are only linked to one 'network'. And if these individual
networks fully connect and integrate...you have an opennet. Except you
have to physically get your node connections from someone else. So you
have an opennet with much fewer connections, which doesn't seem like a
good thing.


On 8/26/06, Evan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Freenet 0.5 is an opennet. You connect to any random node that 
happens
  to be on. Freenet 0.7 doesn't have this yet. In 0.7, there is no 
main
  network. There might be now, but the idea of the way it currently 
is

  setup is to allow small groups to connect without connecting to
  everyone else.
  
  That is not true.  Freenet 0.7 is designed to form one global  
network, not

  multiple independent networks consisting of small groups.
  
  Ian.
 
  Ian,
 
  How can freenet grow to be a global network unless someone in one 
group

  trades connection information with someone in another group?
 
  Hypothetical - A group of people in England, another in France, 
another in
  Russia, and another in China have grown individual trusted 0.7 
freenets. No
  one in any of these groups knows someone in the other freenet group, 
and
  they don't want to just advertise in IRC chat to find someone to 
connect to
  because they don't know and trust this as a way to add people to 
their
  freenet. How will these freenet groups become a part of a global 
network?


 They won't.  But your assumptions are off -- there's lots of good
 reasons to assume that once a small local network passes a handful of
 connected users it will gain a connection to a different network.  And
 then you have a global network.  This is what is meant when people say
 0.7 is designed to form a global network -- there is no magic, except
 for the underlying properties of the social connections the network is
 built upon.

 Evan
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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-26 Thread diddler4u
I agree. I wouldn't want to be the only connection between 2 networks, or 
even one of a small few. I simply don't have the bandwidth. Maybe a T1 or T3 
could handle it, but not what 90+% of the people using freenet would have to 
work with.


As I follow these threads I begin to see a core group of people that are 
promoting 0.7 as the way to go. They have ideas about how it will work, but 
so far I haven't seen convincing evidence to show how it's going to actually 
do what they say. I understand 0.7 is in it's infancy, but it's really 
premature and living in an incubator. It's got a long way to go to be able 
to meet the level of use people are claiming it will have.


I was running 0.7, I'm in the process of changing OS on the PC that was 
running it, but I did not like having to exchange information with someone 
on IRC. It's the first time I've ever had anything to do with IRC, and 
though some people are IRC advocates I've never been one. I didn't know the 
people I was connecting to at all, and the only reason it didn't bother me 
was because I was simply provide a computer and bandwidth. If I had an 
agenda, or a real reason to be using freenet, I would never have considered 
giving out information. I was about as anonymous as if I had posted my IP 
address on Google for everyone to view.


It may be called darknet, but someone forgot to turn off the light.



Yea, but you don't know all the nodes in the network, you just know
the ones your connected to. So if one of those links between the
networks goes down, half your downloads stall out and die. And
wouldn't that put a pretty big strain on certain computers? I mean, if
you get this global network of small networks...90% of the data you
request will probably be on another 'network'. The number of
connections between these networks is going to be a lot smaller than
connections within the network. Therefore the computers that connect
between them are gonna have a much greater strain on them than the
ones that are only linked to one 'network'. And if these individual
networks fully connect and integrate...you have an opennet. Except you
have to physically get your node connections from someone else. So you
have an opennet with much fewer connections, which doesn't seem like a
good thing.


On 8/26/06, Evan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Freenet 0.5 is an opennet. You connect to any random node that 
happens

 to be on. Freenet 0.7 doesn't have this yet. In 0.7, there is no main
 network. There might be now, but the idea of the way it currently is
 setup is to allow small groups to connect without connecting to
 everyone else.
 
 That is not true.  Freenet 0.7 is designed to form one global  
network, not

 multiple independent networks consisting of small groups.
 
 Ian.

 Ian,

 How can freenet grow to be a global network unless someone in one group
 trades connection information with someone in another group?

 Hypothetical - A group of people in England, another in France, another 
in
 Russia, and another in China have grown individual trusted 0.7 
freenets. No
 one in any of these groups knows someone in the other freenet group, 
and
 they don't want to just advertise in IRC chat to find someone to 
connect to

 because they don't know and trust this as a way to add people to their
 freenet. How will these freenet groups become a part of a global 
network?


They won't.  But your assumptions are off -- there's lots of good
reasons to assume that once a small local network passes a handful of
connected users it will gain a connection to a different network.  And
then you have a global network.  This is what is meant when people say
0.7 is designed to form a global network -- there is no magic, except
for the underlying properties of the social connections the network is
built upon.

Evan
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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-25 Thread diddler4u




From: Lars Juel Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:54:16 +0200

On 8/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

From: Lars Juel Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

to take down a darknet you have to find participants and trick
them to letting you in and then you can start finding out which hosts
are part of it.

Wait - Wait - You don't have to be tricked into letting someone in. All 
they
have to do is go to the IRC Chat and advertise they have freenet and want 
to

exchange information with someone. Someone exchanges information with them
and they in. Or are you saying everyone who joined was tricked into 
joining

Freenet in the first place?



For now that is true, they could just go on IRC and get connected but
I'm talking about in the long run and people who are way too cautious
to do something as silly as that. Anyway the IRC thing is just for
bootstrapping the main network the devs are trying to create. People
who want to have their own private darknets can easily do so too.



I get it, freenet is not a worldwide community (openet), it's a bunch of 
private nets (darknets). Instead of growing to be huge like 0.5, 0.7 is 
inherently made to be small, unless you want to advertise on IRC. For now, 
my 'advertised on IRC' machine, is used for testing purposes only. Once 
things are running I remove all of my connections and build my own darknet 
of people I know and we use it as a private place to meet.


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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-25 Thread diddler4u




Except that probably one of your friends knows someone on an other network,
exchanges refs, and bang!, you've got a big worldwide network again.




Or one of them goes into an IRC chat and exchanges the information and bang 
you're all busted.


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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-25 Thread diddler4u




No, only he is busted.

How do you figure that? Doesn't he have connections that canthen be traced 
and then the connections of those traced?


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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-25 Thread diddler4u



It should not be possible to trace them easily. Of course, if his PC gets
captured, that's possible.


If the person was busted their computer would be captured.

I guess the only safe way is to run freenet from inside an encrypted 
(truecrypt or the like) partition or container and just hope freenet doesn't 
write information outside that container, no matter what the OS.


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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-25 Thread diddler4u





From: Evan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: support@freenetproject.org
Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:55:31 -0400

On 8/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


It should not be possible to trace them easily. Of course, if his PC 
gets

captured, that's possible.

If the person was busted their computer would be captured.

I guess the only safe way is to run freenet from inside an encrypted
(truecrypt or the like) partition or container and just hope freenet 
doesn't

write information outside that container, no matter what the OS.


I'm confused... is this supposed to be an argument in favor of 0.5???

Evan


No it's a discussion about security. Sounds like there are security issues 
in either version. It's just a matter of which security limitations you are 
wanting to accept.


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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-24 Thread diddler4u

I've got a question for the developers.

First a couple of comments.

I've been watching the thread 0.5 vs 0.7, and although you want to move it 
somewhere else I welcome it.


I brought up 0.7 about 5 days ago. It's been running ever since, I think. I 
don't monitor the PC that it is on, but I do see activity on the router port 
for the PC. I didn't much like the idea of asking people to let me access 
Freenet through them, but I did. I still think that is a good idea to gain 
initial access to Freenet, but after that it should go find other nodes and 
establish connections to them. I shouldn't have to always rely on the ones 
that were on IRC chat at the time I decided to set up the application.


That said, here is by question.

From what I've seen here, there is a huge base of Freenet users on 0.5, and 
a large amount of content. What I fail to understand is why going to version 
0.7 all of that userbase and content was dropped. Why there was no way to 
connect to that Freenet and have access to the users and the content. I've 
tried to think of an example of some other internet application that made 
such a radical change that the entire existing base was dropped, and quite 
frankly I can't come up with one. I've seen application for my PC change so 
radically the data from the old application had to be converted before it 
would work, but a migration path was always provided. Developers, why did 
you do that?


I'm new to the Freenet community, and I find it incredulous that years of 
effort involved with building the Freenet community was abandoned 
completely. What you have created is a 0.5 and a 0.7 Freenet; both will 
exist into the future. Just as many security conscious people quit upgrading 
PGP after 6.52 because source code was no longer readily available, many 
people will quit upgrading Freenet after 0.5. The difference is with PGP a 
file encrypted with 6.52 can be read by the newer versions. Freenet has 
isolated all of it's previous userbase and content.


There is a saying, Throwing out the baby with the bath water. You have 
done just that.


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Re: Migration path, please! (Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0, 5 and 0, 7

2006-08-24 Thread diddler4u

Evan,

Would you define this statement? they're (developers) working against a 
very real

clock.

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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-24 Thread diddler4u
What about a pipe to the 0.5 freenet from 0.7 that allows access to the 
data? A 1-way street. 0.7 can add  data to the 0.7 freenet, but can and to 
the 0.5 freenet. Only access the data. From what I have gathered, 
'inserting' data into freenet is not a quick task.


As I see it 0.7 relies on a bunch of people hooking up by sharing node 
information. I may be a part of a freenet 0.7 network that consists of less 
than 20 people. Out there somewhere else is another group of people, but 
that group might be 100 people. Unless someone in the 2 groups makes a 
connection, shares node information, the 2 groups don't talk to each other. 
Making matters worse, the only connection they have is through that one 
shared connection. There is no redundancy. Am I wrong in this assumption?






From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: support@freenetproject.org
Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:01:46 -0400

Freenet 0.5 is an opennet. You connect to any random node that happens
to be on. Freenet 0.7 doesn't have this yet. In 0.7, there is no main
network. There might be now, but the idea of the way it currently is
setup is to allow small groups to connect without connecting to
everyone else. Pretty much, there's nowhere for the content to go.
It'd be like trying to move everything on the internet to your local
LAN.
That, and it's just a complete program re-write I believe. It's quite
easy to 'convert' the content...open a page, save it, and then
re-upload it. The data stores work differently, and anyways the data
is distributed, so there wouldn't be any easy way to move it over.

On 8/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I've got a question for the developers.

First a couple of comments.

I've been watching the thread 0.5 vs 0.7, and although you want to move it
somewhere else I welcome it.

I brought up 0.7 about 5 days ago. It's been running ever since, I think. 
I
don't monitor the PC that it is on, but I do see activity on the router 
port

for the PC. I didn't much like the idea of asking people to let me access
Freenet through them, but I did. I still think that is a good idea to gain
initial access to Freenet, but after that it should go find other nodes 
and

establish connections to them. I shouldn't have to always rely on the ones
that were on IRC chat at the time I decided to set up the application.

That said, here is by question.

From what I've seen here, there is a huge base of Freenet users on 0.5, 
and
a large amount of content. What I fail to understand is why going to 
version

0.7 all of that userbase and content was dropped. Why there was no way to
connect to that Freenet and have access to the users and the content. I've
tried to think of an example of some other internet application that made
such a radical change that the entire existing base was dropped, and quite
frankly I can't come up with one. I've seen application for my PC change 
so

radically the data from the old application had to be converted before it
would work, but a migration path was always provided. Developers, why did
you do that?

I'm new to the Freenet community, and I find it incredulous that years of
effort involved with building the Freenet community was abandoned
completely. What you have created is a 0.5 and a 0.7 Freenet; both will
exist into the future. Just as many security conscious people quit 
upgrading

PGP after 6.52 because source code was no longer readily available, many
people will quit upgrading Freenet after 0.5. The difference is with PGP a
file encrypted with 6.52 can be read by the newer versions. Freenet has
isolated all of it's previous userbase and content.

There is a saying, Throwing out the baby with the bath water. You have
done just that.

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Re: Migration path, please! (Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0, 5 and 0, 7

2006-08-24 Thread diddler4u
So by running 0.7 in default mode I'm running in darknet? Or is there 
another piece of the freenet puzzle I need to discover?




From: Evan Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Migration path, please! (Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0, 5 
and 0,7

Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:46:11 -0400

On 8/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Evan,

Would you define this statement? they're (developers) working against a
very real
clock.


Happily.  At some point, running Freenet will (likely) become illegal,
assuming current trends continue.  This includes in the West.  It may
already be in France.  It is safe to assume that developing Freenet
will have the same legal status, whatever that may be.

When that happens, the darknet needs to be sufficiently functional for
development to move off the public net and onto the darknet.  If the
darknet can't support a collaborative development effort by then, we
have a real problem.  It may or may not be enough to kill Freenet
entirely, but it would be a big enough setback to make data resets and
incompatible versions look rosy by comparison.

Evan
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Re: [freenet-support] Freenet 0,5 and 0,7

2006-08-24 Thread diddler4u

From: Lars Juel Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]



to take down a darknet you have to find participants and trick
them to letting you in and then you can start finding out which hosts
are part of it.


Wait - Wait - You don't have to be tricked into letting someone in. All they 
have to do is go to the IRC Chat and advertise they have freenet and want to 
exchange information with someone. Someone exchanges information with them 
and they in. Or are you saying everyone who joined was tricked into joining 
Freenet in the first place?


I guess you mean there will be all these small darknets of people who are 
isolated from the rest of the wrold because they don't know anyone they can 
trust so they will never give out their node information. If that were the 
case, I wouldn't be running a freenet server right now. I would be me, with 
freenet running; an isolated entity within my own darknet, because I've 
never met anyone who has ever said they were running freenet.


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[freenet-support] Freenet 0.5 or Freenet 0.7

2006-08-23 Thread diddler4u
I'm new to Freenet and have been watching the discussion about version 0.5 
vs 0.7. I'm not sure what is meant when the 0.5 advocates talk about 
OpenNet, so could someone enlighten me? I went to the Freenet site hoping to 
find information related to 0.5, even in the WIKI, but it now only contains 
information about 0.7.


I have dedicate an unmonitored Windows XP Pro machine and 1/3 of my 
bandwidth to Freenet. I downloaded and installed 0.7, a no brainer, and got 
it running, but had no nodes to connect to. I had to know another Freenet 
user, preferably someone I knew and trusted, and manually establish a 
connection to them, and they in turn had to have established a connection to 
someone else. Since I know absolutely no other person who is running Freenet 
I had to learn how to use IRC Chat so I could ask someone if I could connect 
to them. These connections are my sole points of contact to Freenet. I have 
no idea how 0.5 handles finding nodes. I don't know who these people are. 
For all I know they could be individuals living on the other side of town, 
the country, or the world and they could just as easily be members of MI5, 
FBI, CIA, or any number of other organizations who monitor and track 
messages on the internet. I do know their IP address, and they know mine. I 
tried to find some people who run 24/7 since having a PC dedicated to Freent 
fulltime, without having someone who is also on 24/7 is not worth much.


I have 7 people who have exchanged node information with me. Of the 7 nodes, 
none are currently connected to me, and if I understand the information, the 
last to go offline did so more than 14 hours ago. I can wait to see if they 
come back online, or I can go back into the IRC chat and try to find new 
nodes. I absolutely hate having to spend time in IRC chat trying to get 
people to exchange connection information with me. I have better things to 
spend my time on, and if Freenet wants my machine and bandwidth it's going 
to have to make sure it stays connected.


Freenet should have me put in a single node, any node, even one found on IRC 
chat, and spider the rest of Freenet establishing and making new connection 
to ensure it stays connected, or it should do something else to 
automatically establish connections. At any rate, once that connection is 
made, Freenet should randomly move my connections throughout the Freenet. I 
should never have hard and firm connections. By 'floating' my connections 
throughout Freenet it can honestly be said I don't know who I'm connected to 
and am simply a node in a collective whole.


I'm going to continue to watch the forum and see how things progress. I'll 
leave my current 0.7 Freenet installed and over the coming weeks decide 
whether to continue, remove and install 0.5, or just shut down completely.


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[freenet-support] It just isn't easy

2006-08-16 Thread diddler4u
I was going to dedicate a PC and it's resources to Freenet. I installed the 
application but don't have someone to connect to. I was able to create the 
URL with my information, but now I have to get on the IRC channel. I got 
Mirc, but it doesn't have the freenet server listed. I'm never going to use 
Mirc for anything but to find someone to connect to. So far I just don't 
have time to learn how to use IRC just to find someone to connect to. Anyone 
want to tell me how to do it?


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Re: [freenet-support] It just isn't easy

2006-08-16 Thread diddler4u

Use it how? In Mirc? Where do I put it?



From: Stefan Grönberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [freenet-support] It just isn't easy
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:59:36 +0200

use this:

/server irc.freenode.net:6667 -j #Freenet-Refs
and you connect and auto join the ref share channel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was going to dedicate a PC and it's resources to Freenet. I installed 
the application but don't have someone to connect to. I was able to create 
the URL with my information, but now I have to get on the IRC channel. I 
got Mirc, but it doesn't have the freenet server listed. I'm never going 
to use Mirc for anything but to find someone to connect to. So far I just 
don't have time to learn how to use IRC just to find someone to connect 
to. Anyone want to tell me how to do it?


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Re: [freenet-support] It just isn't easy

2006-08-16 Thread diddler4u
Sorry to be so dumb, but when I put that in the status window and press 
enter I get a message that says you are not on a channel. My status is not 
connected.



From: Stefan Grönberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [freenet-support] It just isn't easy
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:12 +0200

yes, in the status window

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Use it how? In Mirc? Where do I put it?



From: Stefan Grönberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: support@freenetproject.org
To: support@freenetproject.org
Subject: Re: [freenet-support] It just isn't easy
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:59:36 +0200

use this:

/server irc.freenode.net:6667 -j #Freenet-Refs
and you connect and auto join the ref share channel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was going to dedicate a PC and it's resources to Freenet. I installed 
the application but don't have someone to connect to. I was able to 
create the URL with my information, but now I have to get on the IRC 
channel. I got Mirc, but it doesn't have the freenet server listed. I'm 
never going to use Mirc for anything but to find someone to connect to. 
So far I just don't have time to learn how to use IRC just to find 
someone to connect to. Anyone want to tell me how to do it?


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RE: [freenet-support] Exception in thread Decoder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-08-16 Thread diddler4u
I'm on the irc channel. Now I have to find that place that tells me how to 
post but bulix URL. I think it said use ?raw at the end, but can't remember 
exactly. Once I can get this freenet connection I'll let it run with about 
1/3 of my BW. I can contribute at least a little to freedon, and maybe later 
I can learn how to do other things with it.


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[freenet-support] create a signature

2006-08-16 Thread diddler4u
How do I create a signature in FROST? Also, when I reply or post a new 
message I don't see my posts. I've tried posting in test but don't see them. 
Any suggestions?


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