I've run 0.7 on and off to check it out and keep tabs on development and as for 0.7's connectivity, it can connect to up to 20 opennet nodes and they recommend having 10 to 15 darknet connections. Of course, every darknet connection reduces the number of opennet connections by one.
My 0.5 node on the other hand, is always connected to 100 to 150 other nodes which, IMHO gives much greater plausible denyability regarding whatever content may or may not be in the node's store and what node a request or insert came from.
I also checked out FMS on 0.7. It looks like it's a good idea but it's crippled by a captcha system that is all but impossible to solve if your vision isn't perfect. I have to agree with the opinions others have had in favor of 40bit hashcash tokens instead.
0.7 has plenty of freesites but not all that much in 'other' content. Big files are a LOT slower to download than from 0.5
Messages on the Frost messaging system spread fast enough to have a fairly active discussion. There's been a lot of DoS attacks on some message boards but the latest version of Frost is a lot better able to handle them.
Freesites (websites entirly within freenet) load a lot faster than they used to. File inserts and downloads also are working a lot faster than before. Large files ~ 200MB and larger start to get slower insert and download rates.
If you take the time to collect 5-10 darknet references and disable "promiscuous mode" your node becomes very hard to detect or block.
I've no firsthand knowledge of this but I've also seen claims that 0.7 can not be blocked by the "great firewall of china".
All in all, I think it's come a long way. Once premix routing is added it's going to be even better and I'm going to keep track of it and at the same time, maintain my 0.5 node http://peculiarplace.com/freenet/
What about using freenet, possibly in a closed miniature of the full network? Install a node on these machines with all this idle space and assign the lion's share of it as that node's datastore. It's got the advantage of effectively combining all available storage and keeping stored content encrypted.
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I've run 0.7 on and off to check it out and keep tabs on development and as for 0.7's connectivity, it can connect to up to 20 opennet nodes and they recommend having 10 to 15 darknet connections. Of course, every darknet connection reduces the number of opennet connections by one. My 0.5 node on the other hand, is always connected to 100 to 150 other nodes which, IMHO gives much greater plausible denyability regarding whatever content may or may not be in the node's store and what node a request or insert came from. I also checked out FMS on 0.7. It looks like it's a good idea but it's crippled by a captcha system that is all but impossible to solve if your vision isn't perfect. I have to agree with the opinions others have had in favor of 40bit hashcash tokens instead. 0.7 has plenty of freesites but not all that much in 'other' content. Big files are a LOT slower to download than from 0.5
Yes and no.
Messages on the Frost messaging system spread fast enough to have a fairly active discussion. There's been a lot of DoS attacks on some message boards but the latest version of Frost is a lot better able to handle them.
Freesites (websites entirly within freenet) load a lot faster than they used to. File inserts and downloads also are working a lot faster than before. Large files ~ 200MB and larger start to get slower insert and download rates.
If you take the time to collect 5-10 darknet references and disable "promiscuous mode" your node becomes very hard to detect or block.
I've no firsthand knowledge of this but I've also seen claims that 0.7 can not be blocked by the "great firewall of china".
All in all, I think it's come a long way. Once premix routing is added it's going to be even better and I'm going to keep track of it and at the same time, maintain my 0.5 node http://peculiarplace.com/freenet/
What about using freenet, possibly in a closed miniature of the full network? Install a node on these machines with all this idle space and assign the lion's share of it as that node's datastore. It's got the advantage of effectively combining all available storage and keeping stored content encrypted.