Thanks for your response. I like the principle "always jump a nation boundary on each hop" :)
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:03, 3BUIb3S50i 3BUIb3S50i wrote: > > My idea: > > Interpose at least one "foreign IP address" between sender and recipient > of > > a same country. > > The goal: isolate the sender and recipient. > > The "foreign IP address" is a "country" that cooperates little, or > doesn't > > cooperate. > > For example: > > USA --> Venezuela --> USA > > USA --> Russia --> Venezuela --> USA > > China --> USA --> China > > Etc. > > Friends are unnecessary. The authorities and lobbies artists are more > > difficult to trap users. > > > > What do you think? > > This has been proposed before. I believe there is a VPN-based network on > such > principles (always jump a nation boundary on each hop). I would point out > that the set of such antipathic relationships is quite small. On Freenet, > it > wouldn't help much IMHO (on opennet i.e. Strangers, it is possible to > attack > the network without compromising nodes) and would have a considerable > performance cost. There was a design decision taken that if you have > security > level NORMAL and therefore use opennet you want adequate (if not stellar) > performance; high security and opennet do not go together on Freenet's > architecture, so options that cost a lot of performance are disabled by > default on NORMAL; HIGH turns off opennet. However if somebody sends a > patch > and some mechanism to update the IP mappings, we would consider having it > as > an option. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Luke771 <luke771 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:31:46 +0100 > > > "3BUIb3S50i 3BUIb3S50i" <3buib3s50i at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you for your reply. > > > > > > > > I tried to block all traffic. Everything is blocked, except Freenet > and > > > > TOR. > > > > > > > > I wanted to allow only the IP ranges of some countries. And allow > > > connection > > > > to seednodes. This is an intermediate solution between darknet and > > > opennet. > > > > > > No, this is nonsense. > > > You can run darknet, opennet, or even both side by side, but there's no > > > such thing as an 'intermediate solution' The idea of blocking whole > > > countries (based on -what? biased information from the propaganda > machine?) > > > makes no sense at all. Please reconsider your position. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20081226/f3917cab/attachment.html>
