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Freenet Version 0.7 Release Candidate 1 Available
apostle5406 writes to mention that the "Freenet" project (a global peer-to-peer publishing network) has unveiled their first release candidate. "Freenet 0.7 is a ground-up rewrite of Freenet. The key user-facing feature in Freenet 0.7 is the ability to operate Freenet in a "darknet" mode, where your Freenet node will only talk to other Freenet users that you trust. This makes it much more difficult for an adversary to discover that you are using Freenet, let alone what you are doing with it. 0.7 also includes significant improvements to both security and performance."
Wake me when there's actual information to fight totalitarian governments being spread on Freenet, instead of just child porn and UFO conspiracy theories (I guess they'd be WTC conspiracy theories now).
Klingon programs don't timeshare, they battle for supremacy.
Freenet was around in 1998 or 1999, and its just being released? Maybe the developers should have gotten jobs with MS to work on Vista. The main problem with this program is that I have only ever gotten it to work on Windows and sometimes Linux. The program is so complicated it is extremely sensitive to Java versions, vendors, and platforms. You are lucky if you can get it working at all except for Windows which is so insecure anyway, that putting Freenet on it is like putting money in a vault that never closes. FreeBSD has never worked right with it unless you go through an incredibly convoluted process of getting the latest Sun Java.
I had much promise for the Freenet idea back in the late 90's, but now I am just bored with it. Freenet developers- please Kill the project and do something worthwhile with your life. A decade is a lot of time to waste.
You are right about the fact that in any open format the data can be edited. But the point is simply to convince a jury that the picture cam from a certain source, and in most cases the jury is not going to be sophisticated enough to consider every single possibility.
So the jury has to weigh which situation is most likely, as it's nearly impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Now if the picture just happens to match the camera and computer you have, thats as good as the bullets coming from your gun that you had to register. If a camera can be as damaging as a gun, and all cameras are registered and licensed as guns are, then yes you'll have to register every camera you buy and connect every camera with a name, but this is a better solution than waiting for people to abuse their cameras and the children they film, and upload their virusware to the internet to abuse our computers and eyes.
And it makes more sense to focus on the actual child pornographer than to shut down the entire internet by chasing after the evidence, and by creating illegal hyperlinks and raiding people. So while you might say my solution is ridiculous, if your solution is to censor the entire internet as a solution, then my ridiculous solution is less ridiculous than yours and worth considering.
And of course if you have no solution at all, then you have no right to call any potential solution ridiculous. Whats your solution?