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New "Dark" Freenet Available for Testing
Sanity writes "The Freenet Project has just released the first alpha version of the much anticipated Freenet 0.7 branch. This is a major departure from past approaches to peer-to-peer network design, embracing a 'scalable darknet' architecture, where security is increased by allowing users to limit which other peers their peer will communicate with directly, rather than the typical 'promiscuous' approach of classic P2P networks. This means that not only does Freenet aim to prevent others from finding out what you are doing with Freenet, it makes it extremely difficult for them to even know that you are running a Freenet node at all. This is not the first P2P application to use this approach, other examples include Waste, however those networks are limited to just a few users, while Freenet can scale up almost indefinitely. The new version also includes support for NAT hole-punching, and has an API for third-party tool development. As always, the Freenet team are asking that people support the development of the software by donating."
The Heading of the parent should have been 'Interesting' or 'Can't wait to try it out.' I guess I was simultaneously thinking about two posts and confused myself.
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Its too bad its written in java.. if it was in C/C++ i would have run a node...
Hahah the humorless truth-suppressors have demonstrated their true love for freedom of speech - they love any speech they agree with.
Do your worst, dirty mod-point wielding humorless slashbots.
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