Fracturing P2P Networks

A reader writes: "If you run Freenet and have noticed that you practically can't access anything on the network, you are not alone; a group of Freenet users has organized a Freenet Revolt by forming a separate network running an old, proven build of Freenet, and things have been heating up on the freenet-devel mailing list with a scary declaration by project leader Ian Clarke that Freenet is a research project and has always been, which scared some list members, since Freenet has been actively promoted as a production network and has a sensitive userbase, including Chinese dissidents. Some people are already moving to similar networks like GNUnet and Entropy. " Of course, that does sound different then what has been said before.

Comments

Re:What more do you guys want?

[NDPTAL85]

Slashbots just take and take and take and never give anything in return. Heck they couldn't if they wanted too since only a very small minority of Slashdot posters can program worth a damn.

Re:Dissidents?

[Mr. Slippery]

...while terrorists are people who try to accomplish their goals by killing civilians on purpose.

Of course, "civilians" and "on purpose" are terms that can be applied flexibly.

Are Israelis living in occupied territories civilians, or invaders? Were people living in Hiroshima or Dresden civilians, or as workers in their nations' war industry were they legimate targets? When NATO bombed Kosovo rather than sending in ground troups, keeping soldiers safe while putting civilians at higher risk, were the innocents killed "on purpose"?

No one ever says "we kill innocents on purpose"; everyone adjusted their defintions of guilt and of what is avoidable to suit their own ends.