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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.'"
You'd think after putting three years into something they'd come out with a _better_ product, not a worse one. Freenet 0.7 isn't safe anymore. And they probably lost a good number of potential users by claiming it was the stable and current release for the past year or so, long before it actually was usable...not that it is now.
Meanwhile, Freenet 0.5 is still being developed a bit, some security flaws have been fixed, and we've still got a pretty large community.
And yet most people think it's all ok to slaughter animals after treating them badly for a lifetime.
Yeah, I know I will be modded down, but I don't care, it always says excellent anyway and I don't know what the karma are good for anyway =P