On Sat, 27 May 2006 20:43:52 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:32:48AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: >> People are already starting to kludge their own mechanisms for adding >> connections via FProxy, for example: >> >> http://www.sinnerg.dotgeek.org/freenet/ >> >> The sooner we can support this explicitly using FCP, the less messy this >> is going to be... > > Come on, do you really think that would help matters? We have enough > people trying to hack their own broken opennets together already without > making life easier for them! >> >> Ian.
Current Freenet *is* an opennet. It is an opennet since most people get their noderefs from total strangers in IRC. They have little choice, since Freenet simply isn't large enough that an average person would know someone connected to it. The whole noderef hassle simply makes life more difficult for users, it does not provide any security whatsoever. Accept the facts and code according to them. Even if you somehow managed to enforce the darkness of Freenet, you'd simply ensure that it never grew beyond a very tiny inner circle.
