On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:37:33AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On 31 Aug 2006, at 16:11, Ken Snider wrote: > >Matthew Toseland wrote: > >>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 ... > > > >I think you'll need some form of "incentive" to be on darknet. > > If the security of knowing that strangers don't know you are part of > the network isn't sufficient, then I don't know what is.
It's not just that. It's being vulnerable to total strangers; opennet is significantly less secure than darknet even if it's not prohibited as such. > I certainly > don't think that creating "artificial" incentives, essentially > gimmicks, to motivate people to use darknet rather than opennet, is a > good strategy. > > The basic rule of free software is that first and foremost, the > software serves the user's needs. If your software doesn't serve the > user's needs, then it will be forked and someone else will provide > what user's want with a modified version of your software. If most > user's don't want or need darknet, then most users won't use it. Any > effort to fight this reality is effort wasted. Spending > implementation time on features that are artificially restricted to > darknet users as a gimmick to motivate use of the darknet is > implementation time wasted (you may not be suggesting that, but > others have). Features which are artificially restricted to darknet, such as? > > If only 5% of users feel they need to be on the darknet, and 5% of > users therefore run darknet nodes, and the other 95% are on the > opennet, then we should be happy, because we are serving the user's > needs. Sure, if we think it would be in user's interests for this > percentage to be higher, then we can try to educate people, but we > shouldn't try to corral them into the behavior we want using > gimmicks, or delaying or simply not implementing features that users > are demanding. > > Ian. -- 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/20060901/db6a1a28/attachment.pgp>
