-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 September 2002 13:52, Tyler Riddle wrote: > You raise very excellent points - I am glad someone > took the bait and is willing to flesh this out with me > =) > > > Who controls the spider program? Who are they, and > > why should > > we trust them? Freenet's stability and power is in > > This becomes a mater that is very very similar to The > Freedom Engine. There is only 1 freedom engine and > everyone trusts him to post links to everything that > is given to him. You don't have to trust TFE but you > don't have to use it either - I view this the same > way. If you want to actualy get a search done use this > system, if you want to be 100% sure that you don't > trust anyone don't use it and get your keys only from > trusted sources. > > I am willing to run the entire system from my machine > - I am a professional unix administrator and > architect. I would also setup the search system so > that it is highly portable and have plans that existed > to facilitate moving the system to another machine > either onsite or offsite in case something goes wrong > here. I would also be more then willing to publish > everything possible - that seems it would be > everything except the private key for the SSK where > the search engine lives in freenet. <>
People have done such systems in the past. Generally, such endeavors are viewed as a temperary mesure until proper searching is finally implemented (I'm sure it will be one day, but maybe not before v1.0). - -- In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2Uzi0ACgkQqpueKcacfLQiWACfcaysbha4LGt/r3tPjiOr7NUy XQsAn0K9MSNtdoTZjjpevOJolQZl5XhC =J1uK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
