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  1. Review - Freenet

    0.5.2.8 (Aug 9, 2005)

    Freenet does what it's supposed to do very well, but aside from everything else, it's still in development. I always get the most recent freenet.jar and seednodes.ref from the freentproject.org site, without current files it might not work at all.

  2. Comment - Freenet: Anonymous P2P by Year's End

    0.5.2.8 (Aug 9, 2005 - 11:42 PM)

    >First of all, Feds very well can track just
    >about anything on the internet, legit or no.

    If you believe that statement, then you have no understanding of the nature of freenet. It's design insures anonymity. (see http://freenetproject.org for explanations)

    when data is inserted into freenet, it's broken up into pieces which are then sent as encrypted data blocks through chains of nodes. each node may or may not make a copy of that data as it passes through to the next node.

    requests for data operate in reverse, the requests are sent out through chains of nodes and each node may or may not have the data block, and if so it may or may not send it on.

    As I stated earlier, freenet's aim is not to encourage illegal file shareing, it's aim is to make possible communication and expression of ideas and data that 'powers that be' dont' want available.

    I hear it's being used in China by people who have this wonderfully silly idea that they have the right to freedom of speech and religion dispite what the Chinese government says about it.

  3. Comment - Freenet: Anonymous P2P by Year's End

    0.5.2.8 (Aug 9, 2005 - 11:27 PM)

    No, Stealing copyrighted material != freedom of speech.

    freedom of speech = being able to publish and / or communicate ideas and information that the 'powers that be' don't want published or communicated.

    the fact that some people are trying to use freenet to share music/movies/software/etc is actually a minor side effect of freenets existence, not it's purpose. one can also say the same thing about the porn that one can find on freenet, it's not the reason for freenet, it's a byproduct. In both of these, freenet is no different than the traditional internet, except that freenet is anonymous.

    (and popular, I understand that to date it's been downloaded over 2million times, with a rough estimate of 20,000 nodes active at any given time. [of course, this is me guessing, for accurate figures, check with the freenet people])

  4. Comment - Freenet: Anonymous P2P by Year's End

    0.5.2.8 (Aug 9, 2005 - 11:16 PM)

    Actually, even if data can be decrypted by people trying to crack freenet, they still have no idea what data is inserted by who at what point. Just as they cannot determine the origin of the data, they cannot determine the identity of the downloader of that data.

    As for cracking encryption, I seriously doubt that. There are encryption algrithms that exist in open source public domain that would take literally hundreds of millions of cpu years to crack.

    I doubt seriously that even the NSA could decrypt something encrypted with AES256, Twofish or 448 bit blowfish without having the encryption key and the passphrase.

    On another note. Freenet is not really intended as a file sharing mechanism so much as it is an "anonymous web", where web pages and documents can be published with 100% anonymity a certanty for both the publisher and the reader. Yes, lots are using it for file sharing, but not many hang in there because freenet is a LOT slower than normal p2p filesharing programs.