[freenet-support] The site ignores an important FAQ

[Julien Cornuwel]

Simply Paranoid a écrit :
> Hello fellow paranoids!

Hi,

> I've spent ~a good hour on the site trying to find answers for 2 simple
> yet important questions regarding insecure mode:
> 1. Can my ISP know what am I downloading/uploading to FreeNet?

No, he can't. This is clearly mentionned in the French documentation.
Maybe the official site should clear that point too.

> 2. Can the nodes I download/upload from (Read: NSA in disguise) see what
> I'm doing?
> Of course, we assume they don't use correlation attacks or any other
> ridiculous & unlikely methods.

IF we assume they don't use sophisticated attacks, they can't either.

But I'm not sure it's a good idea to assume they don't try... The
Darknet connection mode is here to avoid that particular risk.

> I believe the answer to the second question is "yes until 0.8", though
> I'm not sure. The first question, however, is essentially unmentioned at
> all, at least directly*. If both the ISP and connecting nodes can read
> the content, then I find very little difference between FN and say,
> Limewire!

And that wouldn't have been worth the years of work ;)

> Anyway it would be nice to see this info on the site in order to compare
> between FreeNet and similar projects like I2P.

I second that.


Regards,

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