[freenet-chat] Finding refs

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 1/16/07, Benedikt Klees <benedikt at schnutenhund.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 3. For privacy's sake; a true darknet (where you only connect to your
> > friends) is far more secure than an opennet.
>
> and this is what I do not understand. How do I make friends, when I
> have no way to communicate?
> As long as I don't know anyone that runs a node I have to peer with
> foreign nodes. Isn't that a way to attack the freenet by trying to
> make this first contact to unknown nodes impossible?

You make friends outside freenet. It is a chicken/egg problem if you
don't have an existing network, which is why we have the opennet -
people join the opennet, find people with similar interests and then
start moving to the darknet.

The important thing is people you know in real life are more
trustworthy than those who you don't know at all. Plus if you've
defined the connections you're more likely to notice patterns, such as
law enforcement trying to become your only peer.
-- 
Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/