After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released

evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content' ... 'The journey towards Freenet 0.7 began in 2005 with the realization that some of Freenet's most vulnerable users needed to hide the fact that they were using Freenet, not just what they were doing with it. The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Freenet, adding a "darknet" capability, allowing users to limit who their Freenet software would communicate with to trusted friends.'"

Comments

Re:Congratulations to all pedophiles. QWZX

[Anonymous Coward]

They have managed to convince a large segment of the population that the only consequence of anonymous communication on the internet is the proliferation of child porn.

Have you actually seen Freenet? The only purpose it's pretty much used for is the exchange of the worst crimes of humanity. When it's actually proven to be used for a legitimate purpose that needs anonymity, then you can criticize people's perception of it.

Re:Congratulations to all pedophiles.

[kdemetter]

Unfortunately, since the network is designed that you can't host one without hosting the other, neither is a particularly advisable thing to have on your network, no matter where you live. Actually , that's incorrect : On freenet , you host what you viewed . So if you only visit free tibet pages , that will be the only thing you have to worry about ( if you happen to live in China) .

Many bad thing may be going on around there , but there's no need to spread FUD . In fact , that's exactly what caused this to happen in the fist place :

The system freenet uses ensures that the content is hosted by popularity . So if a lot of good people put their legal stuff on it , the illegal stuff would simply be crushed . But because of the FUD , it actually attracts bad people , while repelling good people , thus creating a self fulfilling prophecy .