Freenet

Duff

Anybody using it? I have it running full-time on Tweek. It's interesting to poke around, especially Frost (message boards).

Yes, there is undoubtedly child porn and other illegal shit on there, but it's unavoidable in a project who's primary goal to provide anonymity.

UPONCPU

I don't know, it seems dangerous, and anyone who has anything illegal on their drives (even though they don't know about it) can (and will) be held accountable for it. It's just asking for trouble.

I like the idea, but I don't like it putting data on my drives that I can't see.

Ka0s

I remember Q used to be really into the freenet thing. I also remember trying it at one point but it used alot of bandwidth which was somewhat limited for me at the time.

I also vaguely remember like.. not being able to load the pages on it or something.

Rioter

Never heard of it before, seems interesting, but the problem is if I'm caught with the copyright infringing data, whether it's mine or some randomer in Ghana, i'm the one accountable, and even if I'm not found guilty of that information, they're bound to find the other stuff which is mine which is copyright infringing, and I'll be done for that.

Lose Lose situation there.

Duff

The likelihood of being prosecuted for running a Freenet relay is minimal.

I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do?
The true test of someone who claims to believe in Freedom of Speech is whether they tolerate speech which they disagree with, or even find disgusting. If this is not acceptable to you, you should not run a Freenet node. There is another thing you can do. Since content in Freenet is available as long as its popular, you can help limit the popularity of whatever information you do not like. For example, if you do not want a file to spread you should not request it and tell everyone you know not to request that specific key. However, keep in mind that freenet is not designed so as to only allow communication between people if a sufficient number of people agree with the communication. Freenet is designed to make communication possible even if there's just one publisher and one reader, and this is already reasonably feasible on the current freenet.

Can I get trouble if I run a node?
This is related to "Is Freenet legal?". We have done everything we can to make it extremely difficult for any sane legal system to justify punishing someone for running a Freenet node, and there is little precedent for such action in today's developed countries. Many legal systems recognise the importance of freedom of speech, which is Freenet's core goal. Having said that, there is risk in doing anything that your government might not agree with; you should make an informed decision as to whether to take that risk. Furthermore, your ISP or hosting provider may have a problem with Freenet. At least one French hosting provider has been known to ban Freenet (along with Tor and others) from their servers; please read your terms and conditions to make sure you are allowed to run Freenet.

I'm a fan of freedom of speech, so running a Freenet node is my way of contributing.

Personally, I just keep anything I want kept private encrypted in a triple cascading cipher. Anyone "investigating" my computer would just find a bunch of meaningless 1s and 0s.

I like the idea, but I don't like it putting data on my drives that I can't see.

If you were able to see what it puts on your drives, you lose both protection and plausible deniablity.

FedeArg

Never heard about it before, but I know about Blacknets.....

I've been seeing that some hackers are trashing some Freenet nodes :S

Maybe I'll try it later, as I don't have any apparent use for it as I obtain my illegal stuff from other web sites.. :P

Q

Exactly. It's not really possible (That I understand) for someone to find out what you personally are storing, which is the whole point.

And yes I was into this for a while and then sortof gave up for some reason. I should get back into it. My memories are:

* Taking forever to load pages (That'll always be a factor)
* Me wondering why javaw was taking so much processor and RAM and killing it, and then wondering why Freenet was down.
* FIW, NIM and other strangeness.
* I once got a Freesite up and running, but remember nothing of it.
* "Bill and the Canary's Big Giveaway"
* That sort of status flog, Content of Evil I think?
* Constant updates to new revisions
* After I left, they made some major architectural change I wasn't so sure I'd've supported if I was there.

-Q