[Tech] Distributed Drive and Increased Usage

[Dan.Bruce@gmail.com]

Some times it needs a bit of discussion to be able to make idea's come 
clear, lol, I am bad for missing a few steps in the thought process and 
jumping over them.

The first is FreeNet allows for a couple ways to be set up. As an OPEN 
NET concept and it also allows for establishing a Private Network that 
literally does not connect to anyone but a secured group, 10 People can 
use it to establish a private Internet of there own and quite literally 
ignore the fact there is an internet.

The "Add to the Cause" concept in terms of an application that allows a 
person to say OK I will give 20k up 20k down towards the cause in this. 
It gives the chance to incorporate essentially a TOR style router to the 
entire freenet. It would allow use of this  to relay traffic through 
them, or if the user enables to function  as a temporary distributed  
MINI  Server for the freenet. It would depend on the application.

I suggested CHAT as that is an application that most often is left on 
24/7 on a machine, and as long as the bandwidth use stays with in 
reason, does like the SETI application did if the machine was idle it 
went to work if it was in use it went to a crawl people will add to the 
cause, a pause button for it if its interfering with the operation.

MINI Server: you take 8 of these mini nodes that have the ability to 
work as a server for a short time and bundle them as a single server. 
The IRC Channel Server or what ever then works off one IP for 15 mins 
and then changes to the next this gives the redundancy and obscuring it 
with others working as relays to them.

The ability to hide in the open is the concept  I am working with 20 
darknet networks that function alone are better hidden if there are 2 or 
3 OPEN NET functions working and 20 or 30 Private/Open Net functions 
working.

If you have 80 million people that have 20k in 20k out all with the same 
sized blocks of traffic and its all private/encrypted you cant say which 
traffic is in which of the numerous networks.

What gets Bundled with an application for everyone to use does not have 
to be a FULL FreeNet it could be a service function that the freenet can 
use to increase its performance and its security. The user gets 
encrypted SECURE chat Freenet gets a mini service...

With the Storage Idea I am not thinking of the new stuff to burn on DVD 
though it might be feasible to ask users to burn a FREENET SYSTEM DVD/CD 
every now and then. What I am thinking of is the thousands and millions 
of CD/DVD that people have burned already.

The offline storage is already burnt and the potential archive goes back 
to the early 90's in terms of information archive.

For the FreeNet to have an application that allows scanning in the files 
on the Users CD/DVD into a Database that the user can use to locate 
files in the users own library. What is needed is to generate the Hash 
ID's for what they have burned and include that in the database ideally 
a flag saying that some stuff is not to be included. A copy of a 1991 
abandoned game would see some requests and if the person scans in a disc 
that also has wedding pictures obviously they would not be included in 
the database except for personal use. Not that anyone would have the ID 
Hash to request it.

A brand new node instead of transfering data is able to scan in what 
they have already on cd/dvd rather than have to wait on the data coming 
from the freenet to fill the filestore. They downloaded something off of 
the newsgroups that maybe the most popular file on the freenet, rather 
than having to allow their cache to eventually get the blocks the scan 
can allow putting the entire copy in and not just a few blocks of it.

In terms of the Bit Torrent layout. A user able to scan the files in 
would become essentially a new SEED having a full copy of it rather than 
one of the distributed copies that has 100 blocks of a 1000 block file 
in the cache. 10 people having 100 blocks to send makes it fast.... 1 
person having all 1000 makes it reliable.

With a request coming in from Freenet to put Disc 10 in... It would be 
your disc 10 and not related to anyone elses personal index. The double 
blind in this is freenet asks for a disc and not a file and your disc 10 
is not anyone elses disc 10.

Freenet gets a request for a FILE ID HASH, looks up in its database if 
its on the system or on the users off line storage. If it is then the 
freenet reads it into the users cache re-encrypting it and breaking it 
into the required block sizes and such.

Unless you are running a program to monitor what is actually copied off 
the disc all you know is some one wanted you to put in a CD you burned 
in 1992. What actual file was called for is unknown by the person 
placing the disc in.

As for political / ideological overheads....

You either have privacy or you don't at the moment much of our world 
offers its citizens only the illusion of privacy and the powers that be 
want it that way. True Privacy is something that is feared by all 
Governments world wide.

The influx of porn and anarchy materials are common to any system at the 
start, it took them about 2 weeks to rename porn with an mp3 extenstion 
and jump onto napster when it first started. The percentage of the 
system that is porn will change instantly with the influx of a 
fileswapping system that can offer some elements of speed as well as 
security. 20 Million Users waters the percentages down real fast.

I would never say it needs to be as fast as the current Bit Torrents 
allow, esentially this is a trade you would see about 1/2 the speed in 
return for the privacy. As the saying goes when it comes to buying 
things you can have any two the price costs you the third..... Cheap, 
Fast, or Quality

encrypted anonymous private internet, any system that offers true 
privacy is not going to be pretty.

Outside of the virtual world you remove law from our land and give the 
general person the ability to live a totally free private life in real 
life and you will have a society that is pretty much anarchy.

Yes it offers a great deal to a person but it also means you need to 
take the good with the bad, when it comes to privacy you either have it 
or you don't.

Secure Chat that is obscured completely by the freenet would give people 
a reason to run the app.

With respect to the fileswap at the moment potential idea maybe to have 
a polling idea to allow users to catagorize files better. Each File 
having basically an NFO that can allow for some organization. If the 
FileSwap was able to allow files to be voted on as to them being movie, 
book, game, application, picture, X it would allow for some simple 
filtering which would improve the image of the system.

Removing files will just see them reposted but being able to screen them 
into categories would allow for the users to get rid of materials they 
find offensive, 200 people voting on where it belongs would make it 
possible with out allowing for abuse in that fashion as well

Dan