I believe that it is expedient, provided that we get a significant movement from opennet to darknet. I am not yet sure how we will ensure that; increased security may be enough, but everyone knows (wrongly but instinctively) that opennet is more secure, so ...
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:10:34PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Fair enough- The point in my other e-mail is that even if Opennet is > banned in Realm X, if we can darknet from X to Y, where it isn't > banned, We can then use Opennet to talk to country Z, from which we've > never met anyone. > > I know that Opennet is already in the cards, so this message is only > really intended to help convince you of why I think it's important. > I'd rather that you believe in it, rather than viewing it as > politically necessary ;) > Although perhaps not until January, Opennet seems destined. If nothing > else, Ian wants it strongly. As the founder and public face of > freenet, that alone will ensure it happens, it's just a matter of > when ;) > > -Colin > > On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >I'm not denying that we may end up with several darknets which are > >only > >loosely connected. But I see no reason to expect them to be tiny. > > > >On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:21:36PM -0400, Colin wrote: > >>> > >>>I don't see why (in the long run). The properties of human networks > >>>are > >>>such that I would expect darknets to go quickly from having a few > >>>links > >>>to having many links. > >> > >>I'm not sure that's true... People have lots of links in their social > >>circle, hell, in their society... > >>How many people do you know in China? How many do you know, that know > >>people in China? > >>How many in Russia? > >> > >>As far as I know, no real world tests have ever gone across multiple > >>countries and cultures like that... > >>(Not to mention that Milgrim's tests mostly weren't very reliable to > >>begin with) > >> > >>-Colin > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Tech mailing list > >>Tech at freenetproject.org > >>http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > >> > > > >-- > >Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > >_______________________________________________ > >Tech mailing list > >Tech at freenetproject.org > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- 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/20060831/e828f774/attachment.pgp>
