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Fracturing P2P Networks

Posted by Hemos on from the tempest-in-a-teacup dept.

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.

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  1. Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure George W. Bush can explain me the difference between "Dissidents" and "Terrorists".

    1. Re:Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Dissidents boldly go where no man has gone before.

    2. Re:Dissidents? by Oddly_Drac · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "A dissident is someone who disagree with someone you disagree with and a terrorist is someone disagreeing with you. In the same way, a freedomfighter is someone fighting an oppresive regime you don't like, while a rebel is someone fighting an oppresive regime you do like."

      Funny thing is that the world governments tend to try and tell people that this is an objective decision when it's entirely subjective and tends to depend on who's paying for the ideological dissemination of information.

      eg 'Sandinistas' - 'Freedom Fighters'; 'Al Queda' - 'Terrorists'

      --
      Oddly Draconis
      Too cynical to live, too stubborn to die.
    3. Re:Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That is fascinating. Please subscribe me to your newsletter.

    4. Re:Dissidents? by meta-monkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I agree with your assesment of a "freedom fighter" and a "rebel," but on the matter of "terrorist" I think you've erred. The difference between a dissident and a terrorist is not motivation, but method. A dissident may attempt to work within the system, or may protest on the edge of the system. A freedom fighter or a rebel will take up arms against the government, and the military. A terrorist, however, takes up arms against the people, and against civilians.

      Sorry to pick nits, but semantics are very important, as words are pregnant in such a politically charged issue as this.

      --
      We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
    5. Re:Dissidents? by MeanMF · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A freedom fighter or a rebel will take up arms against the government, and the military. A terrorist, however, takes up arms against the people, and against civilians.

      I completely agree with you here, but if you look at reports from Iraq, attacks on U.S. soldiers are being carried out by "terrorists". The "t" word has lost most of its meaning these days, and is being used to describe guerilla tactics as well as attacks on civilian targets.

    6. Re:Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      In the words of George Carlin: "If fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"

    7. Re:Dissidents? by antibryce · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I don't think the US has ever called Sandinistas "freedom fighters." Especially since they were in power for 21 years (during which we financed a rebel army to fight them.)

      http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1006-04. ht m

      Even today we seem to be very clear that they have terrorist ties.

    8. Re:Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hello? People at war kill civilians all the time. It is only a very recent phenomenon that military commanders have taken care to not kill civilians, and this has only occured during conflicts where they have an overwhelming military advantage and so can afford such luxuries. Remember World War II? Cities (containing mostly civillians!) were regularly attacked, even with nuclear weapons! (although more civilians were killed by conventional bombs) Try going around telling people that the allies in WWII were terrorists and see how popular you are.

    9. Re:Dissidents? by TheCrazyFinn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      To quote Lenin:

      Terrorists create terror.

      A dissident is somebody with a differing, unpopular political belief.

      Vaclav Havel was a dissident. Karl Marx was a dissident.

      A terrorist is a person who commits acts intending to terrorise a population into submitting to said terrorists agenda (Note that this is distinctly seperate from war, which is a violent dispute between governments). Osama bin Laden is a Terrorist. Yasser Arafat is a Terrorist, Che Guevara was a Terrorist.

      --
      "You've got an invalid haircut" -Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya
  2. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SUCKERS!!!!

  3. Hm by Tirel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!

    ~~ BUSH @ IIP ~~

  4. Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure George W. Bush can explain me the difference between "Dissidents" and "Terrorists".

  5. Dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure George W. Bush can explain me the difference between "Dissidents" and "Terrorists".

    All you patriotic cowboys have not enough mod points to make my automatic generated opinions dissappear! Muahahahaha

  6. Chinese dissidents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who cares about them? hail mao! I mean lmao.

  7. Re:Child porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    But yet relatively public networks such as edonkey has lots of the "pre-teen" material
    I know from (huge) experience that 99% of the "pre-teen" porn on edonkey is fake. Takes ages to find what you're really looking for.
  8. Saving Private Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    * TROLL HIGH COMMAND *
    * SPECIAL OPERATION 4A72FGSE - Q7 *

    * CONFIDENTIAL * FOR YOUR EYES ONLY * CONFIDENTIAL *

    Special mission: saving private Goatse

    Soldier, your mission is to penetrate the enemy lines
    and resue the private X.C. Goatse.
    His brothers Penisbirdman, WIPO Troll, Hot Grits and his
    naked and pertified sister Natalie Portman have
    already been killed in this war against censorship and
    bigotry at the slashdot frontpage theater.
    We want to save his troll family from another tragic loss
    and therefore remove him from the war and return him to
    his home.
    You have to find this private. He is member of the 2nd
    troll parachuters who were dropped behind the enemy lines
    to open a 2nd front and support our main attack at the first
    post. His exact location is unfortunately unknown.
    The objective of his team was to infest a BSD post and hold
    the thread with *BSD is dying posts until our main forces arrive.
    However, due to heavy moderation his team couldn't jump into the right
    thread so we have only a very vague idea of his whereabouts.
    After our primary attack at the first post, you have to penetrate
    the enemy lines and search for this private.
    This mission is very dangerous - we expect much bitchslapping
    at the first post and zealot pro-linux moderation in the back.

    Best luck soldier.
    If you die in action, you'll be honored posthumus by a PWP crapflood.

    General Borgus Trollus Trolligulus
    Troll High Command
    Special Operations

  9. Re:Child porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ah, thanks for contributing to this thread. it's us ACs that keep /. alive you know.

  10. THE TROLL WAR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Troll War
    Chapter 1

    It was 03:00. The moonless night engulfed three individuals in complete darkness. Three individuals who moved, with surprising grace, toward a single destination. Three individuals on a campaign; a mission. A campaign to rid Slashdot of lame trolls. A mission to ultimately destroy Slashdot forever.

    A low candle flame, flickering slightly in the crisp Autumn night breeze, lit the storm sewer corridors and access tubes with a deep yellow pallor. Faint whisperings, little more than leaves brushing against ancient cement walls to the rest of the world, could be heard.

    "Where is Alan? I thought I saw him approaching a moment ago," Trollaxor hissed. Standing a full 6 foot, with slicked-back black hair and a few day's worth of stubble, Trollaxor looked every bit the revolutionary in his black leather biking jacket. His green eyes pierced the dimly lit darkness, awaiting a response.

    "I believe he tripped on his beard," Linus stated matter-of-factly, with just a hint of impatience. Linus Torvalds, Open Source hero and maintainer of Linux, stood taut as coiled snakes as he realized the gravity of the situation.

    "Contact him. We have already overstayed our time in this place, even as we arrive." Trollaxor pushed.

    "Fine," Linus Torvalds threw back the hood that concealed his Finnish visage, which was painted with tightly closed eyes and a look of grim concentration. He rubbed his temples lightly as sweat began to bead upon his high Finnish forehead.

    Mumbling rapidly in Finnish, Linus turned to the East, now raising one hand above his head, palm extended to the direction of the sun's somnal abode.

    "I can't seem-- to contact him--" Linus grunted in broken English. "I will try another method!"

    Now a tributary of Old Swedish poured from the well of Linus's foreign maw. Trollaxor started, "Linus, if he is lost to us, there is nothing you can do, not even a fossil language can bring him to us now!"

    Linus broke his linguistic trance and turned to Trollaxor. "In the name of all discontinued Japanese Transformers! The enemy must have captured him! Damn him and his filth-ridden beard! Now you know why I hate working with dirty GNU hippies!"

    The enemy, as both Trollaxor and Linus knew too well, were the nefarious Slashdot Moderators, a group of numb-minded, brainwashed denizens of their strange, dark world that patrolled in hopes of "disabling" those who rebelled against their beloved Commander's will. "As dirty as he was, he was a valuable ally that you and I and the rest of the free world needed," Trollaxor dryly pointed out. "If the Mods got him, we must forego tonight's plans and rescue him immediately!"

    Grunting again, this time out of frustration and anger, Linus whispered sharply thru clenched teeth in a heavy accent, thick with Finnish and Old Gutnish phonemic forms. "In the name of unmade Beast Wars toys, how are you and I to do a thing if the Mods patrol tonight?"

    Trollaxor, ever the rebel to thrive against challenge, grew a vicious smile as he turned to Linus again. "The harder they patrol, the harder we troll, my friend." Linus remained nonplussed. As Trollaxor tightened the belts on his black leather biking jacket and made sure all miscelanaous zippers were sealed, his face brightened even more. "We've faced worse setbacks. Remember the Fallen Trolls. And remember moreso those Trolls who have gone over to the other side."

    As Trollaxor's voice trailed off, Linus hung his head and exhaled slowly. Thoughts of the fallen whipped thru Linus's Finnish brain like TCP packets to Linux's bit bucket. "No, how can I not remember. Troll Mastah, Signal 11, travesty... They tried to break us!"

    "Looks like they'll try again!" Trollaxor replied, smiling, completing a verse from "Wild Boys", the infamous Duran Duran track that Trollaxor and his camp had taken up as their anthem. "Now come on. We have some Mods that need bitchslapped tonight!"

    Linus closed his eyes and bobbed his head three times

  11. Freenet preteen pr0n links ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who wants underage porn on freenet?

    CHK@ZcoQ3U8hhBlwCqtvaLLbfFG9GsYOAwI,xtHJ0ZmayJSL f7 vsSzCmJQ/Set 21.rar
    little-virgins.com Set 21. Blonde girl, no breasts, no pubic hair, age guess 10-11 years. 104 pictures.

    CHK@nugZJA8bXrNEd9t0evhrSr29PRYOAwI,j0HRlYOmkBUa Ev dZLqp8rw/Set 30.rar
    little-virgins.com Set 30. Blonde girl, no breasts, no pubic hair (same girl as Set 21) and Redhead girl, no breasts, no pubic hair. Age guess 10-11 years both girls. 103 pictures.

    CHK@4M3mMWG0jUo6r~aonWy8dlx23d8OAwI,H6ZSDC55PhgL Nw ktq7jk-A/hussy-BDC-katya.rar
    BD-Company Katya. Brunette girl, no breasts, no pubic hair. Age guess 9-10 years. 103 files in RAR, but only 80 are extractable, the others are corrupt.

    CHK@4WcwCHeK~cHXG5-7RwgRfY6U~Z0OAwI,njhoDZElbnGC Xc EmdP077w/hussy-BDC-marina.rar
    BD-Company Young Strawberries Marina. Young brunette girl, no breasts, no pubic hair. Age guess 9-10 years. Several spread pussy pics and some closeup pussy shots. 113 pictures.

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    LS-Models Fallen Angels 56. Brunette girl, budding breasts, unknown pubic hair. Age guess 13-14 years. 63 files in RAR but only 31 are extractable, the rest are corrupt.

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    LS-Models Fallen Angels 57. Blonde girl, no breasts, no pubic hair. Age guess 8-9 years. 53 pictures.

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    Gentle-Angels sets 109 and 110, Nadya. Brunette girl, budding breasts with large puffy nips, shaved pubic hair. Age guess 14-15 years. Set 109 55 pictures, Set 110 58 pictures, 113 pictures total.

    CHK@Vn7oo1kovQ8f7crkTNXJrY6H9ggOAwI,jDC0-pa42olL uZ uVnOwQcQ/hussy-LF-twogirls.rar
    Lolitas-Factory.co m set Twogirls. Two brunette girls, one with budding breasts and one with no breasts, the younger girl has no pubic hair and the older has her first hair. Age guess 10 and 12 years. 100 files in RAR but only 98 are extractable, the other two are corrupt.

    CHK@9ym9QXLx6V2vMfIA92KkjIu8qLUOAwI,CcDFiIFttzwK On oRvylFZg/hussy-LSG-14.rar
    LS-Girls set 14. Beautiful brunette girl, barely budding breasts, no pubic hair at all. A closeup shows 1 breast, bellybutton, and hairless pussy. Age guess 11 years. 99 pictures.

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    OnlineLolita.com Tonia. Brunette girl, budding breasts, first pubic hair, not facially attractive. Age guess 11-12 years. 57 pictures.

    CHK@sc~UL9nq-mSFHU5iE4CQ0CUNY2UPAwI,WCjnGEA0GUDD 0n WGG4iT1Q/hussy-PG-Olga.rar
    PreteenGoddess.com Olga. Blonde girl, no breasts, huge delicious bellybutton, no pubic hair. Age guess 10 years. Some images blurry, but #133 and #135 alone would make a gay man cum, this girl is amazing. 169 pictures!

    CHK@x9Dbz0mOUuyTkNghA~jBVyu1ogINAwI,-u1P84jeR6jv BO DkUMa1iw/hussy-PL-12.rar
    Pearl Lolitas set 12. Blonde girl, barely budding breasts, big bellybutton, no pubic hair. Age guess 12 years. 61 pictures.

    Lora.rar
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  12. Not "then". Use "than". Sheesh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    English is my second language and I end up the one correcting YOU. Sheesh

  13. Re:Child porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back when I was in high school, two of my friends in high school were gay and (at one time or another) had boyfriends who were in their 30s and 40s respectively.

    Now, doing the nasty with a high school kid is not pedophilia. But it is very creepy at the very least.

  14. Re:"child/gay"? by mutewinter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    goatse.cx nuf said.