On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:56:30AM -0700, an ominous cow herd wrote: > > I'm inclined to believe that there is a deliberate attempt to kill the 0.5 > network by directing new users to the 0.7 network, but then again I'm the > paranoid sort. > > Thanks for clearing up the 10MB limit question. It would have been one big > mistake to cap the usage. > > As to the 0.7 network having the ability to choose your own neighbor nodes, > that can done on the 0.5 network as well. You and another can build your own > private network with it's own seednode.ref. You can also block all IP > addresses not in your network by the use of a firewall. The fact that the > average user must download referances from an IRC channel that could easily > be compromised by the cops doesn't leave me with warm and fuzzy feelings.
While that may technically be true, it's grossly inefficient, and the algorithm isn't designed for it; such a kludge certainly wouldn't scale. And yes, we need opennet. But a true opennet will not be vastly more secure than the irc channel. [Insert favourite bogeyman] can run a node and identify all nodes for essentially no effort. -------------- 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/20060923/51a1dab5/attachment.pgp>
