[freenet-chat] Arguments against the Darknet

[Colin Davis]

>
> FWIW, I agree with all your points. And I would add that no-one is  
> more than 2 steps away from a police spy - I find random connection  
> *adds* plausible deniability:  although not (and this is a valid  
> point that has been made by the developers) if running Freenet is  
> itself a crime.  But if every friend has at least one friend who is  
> a police spy, they are going to know you are running Freenet  
> anyway.  The only defence is to have so many people running Freenet  
> that they don't bother to prosecute unless they already suspect you  
> of something, in which case they will always find something to  
> prosecute you for if they want to anyway.
>
> But is not the routing model for Freenet 0.7 dependent on some sort  
> of affinity network rather than the old open/random connection model?

Yes, the routing model for .7 depends on clustered groups. But it's  
possible to maintain clustered groups with an opennet- Nothing says  
connections have to be randomly made, just made without user connection.