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Revamping Freenet

Posted by Hemos on from the rebuild-ground-up dept.

N3wsByt3 writes "Many will have heard about the anonymous P2P-system Freenet. What many probably don't know is, that a big change is at hand: the Freenet developers have decided to drop all support for the 0.5x version, to skip version 0.6 and to completely revamp the 0.7 build into some kind of poorly described, presumably scalable darknet. The main coder even threatened to quit if such a darknet would be rejected. So, is it finally going the right way with the development of Freenet? Maybe not, since they seem reluctant to provide real data and rather rely on security through obfuscation, and then there is still the problem of their general inability in regard to pooling human resources, which, for any OSS project, is of the utmost importance." Obviously, the article submitter has his own feelings on Freenet, but notwithstanding that, what's the latest scuttlebutt from within the Freenet crowd?

9 of 541 comments (clear)

  1. The latest scuttlebutt? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is that they're a bunch of pedophiles, that's the latest scuttlebutt.

  2. Hi everyone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just to let you know -- I will be posting a little bit later but I just wanted to let everyone know that I love you guys and will talk to you soon!!!

  3. Outmost? by mandrake*rpgdx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you mean utmost?

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    click me
  4. Completely Offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The problem with peer reviews forum's is that for a user base U1 to U10, if U6 is the only user who knows the correct answer, then he/she's answer will never be moderated up.

    In other words, if Aristotle's ideas were peer reviewed in a system similar to slashdot, we would still all believe that the Earth is flat! Thus peer review systems only promote ideas of the masses but omit the outliers i.e. the Einstein's etc.

    Of couse this is totally irrelevant to this story.

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

    The problem with peer reviews forum's is that for a user base U1 to U10, if U6 is the only user who knows the correct answer, then he/she's answer will never be moderated up.

    In other words, if Aristotle's ideas were peer reviewed in a system similar to slashdot, we would still all believe that the Earth is flat! Thus peer review systems only promote ideas of the masses but omit the outliers i.e. the Einstein's etc.

    Of couse this may be totally irrelevant.

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

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=outmost

    Farthest out; outermost.

    Perhaps the submitter meant "utmost".

  7. The Spelling Nazi says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    utmost, not outmost!

  8. and Speaking of Child Porn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone know where to get a MD5 list of child porn images / movies? I frequent P2P sites for my porn needs and I don't really want to see these files ever.

    With the md5's and a perl script I could delete them before opening them and having my mind forever scarred...

  9. I believe the answer is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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