The end of the beginning of the beginning... Freenet 0.7 build 585 (SVN 8354) introduces true darknet mode. You can now set testnet=false. This means that the back doors are disabled. The node no longer reports itself to freeviz.freenetproject.org, and I cannot log in remotely and read your logs (unlike on darknet, in both cases).
Therefore the darknet is somewhat more secure. HOWEVER it is still not secure by any stretch of the imagination. In particular, your immediate peers can spy on your requests with little difficulty. We will improve on this later, but it was also the case in Freenet 0.5... it's a bit easier to exploit on 0.7 though for various reasons. There are undoubtedly serious bugs in Freenet 0.7, some of which will destroy your anonymity, turn you in to the secret police, and eat your cat. I request that people run both a darknet and a testnet node. Because 0.7 has a very low memory footprint (I run my nodes in -Xmx100M), this should be entirely feasible for many. It will be *enormously* helpful to continued development. Further they should actually use both. In any case, at present the only known darknet node is mine. If you want to connect to it, and you have either coded on Freenet, or argued with me on a freenet mailing list or IRC channel, or know me in any other way, then make a node and ask for a connection. -- 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/20060329/185d5f53/attachment.pgp>
