On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:18:15PM -0400, n/a n/a wrote: > Dont get me wrong, i do admire what they are trying to do, and i wish them > the best of luck however i do not free it possible to make it trully > anonymous, it only ramains so because of the current laws, big brother is > nearly here, they are already trying to pass a bill that lets the monitor > itnernet conversations, what is there to stop them from opening their own > nodes and monitoring everyone? soon enough they wont need to figure otu who > it going to, just that its passign through your system and it will be > enough for them to get you, im afraid there is little to stop them, short > of judgement day, if the bill does pass i for one will no longer touch the > internet, im not down with big brother. Freedom is but an illusion as is > anonymity.
So what are you saying here? That if they make it illegal to run a node, they can arrest everyone for running nodes? Well duh! That's exactly the problem that has occupied our minds a great deal for 0.7. 0.7 will support "darknet" operation, in which it will be very difficult for them to find large numbers of nodes. > > as for java, im not sure what they were thinking, im a programer, java is > the most hirrible language ive ever had the displeasure to use, it is slow, > unstable and unreliable, there are many far more powerful languages they > could have used. Some people hate it, some people love it. Personally I don't think the language is particularly bad. The interfaces/classes split is probably better than multiple inheritance, and performance can be quite reasonable. It is likely that in future it will be possible to compile it on GCJ. According to benchmarks java's performance with a good JIT can be quite acceptable; the only real problems are that it tends to use a lot of memory (this is not due to it being GC'd; garbage collection saves significant programmer time and is highly worthwhile), and that at present you can't run Freenet on the free JVMs (especially GCJ). Hopefully we will be able to in 0.7. > > anyways, power to you, i hope they achive what they sat out to do, im just > not sure that it is possible. It depends what you're up against. If you're living in Saddam era Iraq, where people are randomly tortured to death for uncertain thought crimes, then probably you can't use freenet, even in a darknet, because every tenth person you meet is an informant. On the other hand, if you live in a prosperous land with the rule of law, even if freenet is illegal, unless they spend billions on expensive traffic analysis hardware they will not be able to stamp it out. And even then, you can use sneakernet and guerilla wireless (even sneakernet can benefit from some form of routing IMHO). -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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