On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:56:25AM -0400, jrandom at i2p.net wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > In the near term, Freenet will operate on the small scale (from the > > > government's perspective), so it will work fine, since it won't be > > > attacked. This would be good, as it would help individuals who > > > need help. Freenet 0.5 meets this need too, and would 0.3. WASTE > > > would probably be better though, as it has much less overhead. > > > This is simply not true. It is not possible any more to use Freenet 0.5 > > in China, for the simple reason that it *has been attacked*. > > True, you're right. It has had some level of attack - the website was > blocked a few years back, and (recently?) the fixed protocol bytes were > included in the network filter. Once the transport is fixed to prevent > that trivial level of detection, 0.5 would be sufficient.
Until they start harvesting. Which wouldn't cost much more than blocking the fixed protocol bytes. I estimate it would cost much less than $1000, plus the cost of a PC to run the script on continually at a negligible cost. > > > Furthermore, the whole point about WASTE is that it does not scale. It > > cannot scale. It will never scale. The internet is orders of magnitude > > more useful than a BBS because it DOES scale. > > Not everything has to scale to be useful. Helping 50 people is better > than helping none. And as I said in other emails, scaling in this case > may in fact be counterproductive, as it changes the economics and > invites more powerful attacks. 50 people will not overthrow the government. They will just get killed. 50 people will not, generally, be able to spread the truth amongst the billion plus population. You want real change, you take the truth to the masses, and help them to speak their minds. The way to change the society, to change the government, is to change the people. > > =jr -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20051011/bc245a62/attachment.pgp>
