I have spoken to this guy, he understands nothing about Freenet, and
this part of his business is making no money.
Ian.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:33:33PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> The mediaenforcer software polls napster and gnutella users (possibly others,
> too) looking for certain files. The idea is that someone could track down
> people illegaly publishing a certain file and send them a cease and desist
> letter, sue their isp, whatever.
>
> In an interview http://www.zeropaid.com/9online/media0531.php3 with the author
> of the software, he claims to know of a design flaw in Freenet that makes it
> possible to track the origin of files inserted into Freenet. He doesn't say
> anything more, claiming that "... it would just be re-engineered". This was
> several months ago, and as far as I can tell, he hasn't said anything more, or
> demonstrated the alleged vulnerability to anyone.
>
> My personal opinion is that it's either a) a publicity stunt, b) a misquote,
> or c) he's mistaken about some aspect of how freenet works, but until he
> chooses to provide some evidence, there's no way to know.
>
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