[Tech] Distributed Drive and Increased Usage

[Dan]

DarkNet VS OpenNet Elements

With FreeNet yes a DarkNet can leak public but a group that is using it 
to cover communications and information can work to restrict it even if 
its like the olden days; a memo form of security about not deleting a 
file on the mainframe. At present there is no way to force the 
restrictions on it but in time the groups that begin to implement this 
as a private internet will work on limiting it from breaking out of the 
set group.

I can see this project resulting in not a single world wide private 
anonymous internet but resulting in many and the various nets all may or 
may not come together in the world.

Its not too hard to see there being a Christian Crusader Network forming 
and an Eastern Jihad Network, a Republican Network, a Democratic 
Network, and so on. People have a natural tendency to associate with 
like minded groups.

This project offers 2 elements in privacy the first is privacy from the 
current network and the internet as its known today and the second is 
privacy from each other. The latter in that is one that is under 
personal control while a person may not want the world to know they are 
part of the network they may be quite happy to have the group with in 
the network know even their home address's and names.

The Chat Application Function and a stripped down NODE, there is likely 
a fair demand for this form of an application for a chat program running 
on the freenet network it offers more than just a simple CHAT.

Running on freenet as a mini node would mean there is continued traffic 
making it impossible to pick out a conversation by watching a connection 
from a setting of an ISP.  The system is encrypted and secured that can 
not be monitored. The Anonymous Factor on the chat is also one that 
would benefit people as well. Yes talking to your Brother the anon 
function is useless but the communications are secured by the system, on 
the other hand your also able to chat with a total stranger and there is 
no concern they may be able to locate you physically.

A Chat Application would bring in a huge number of people to this, the 
mini node concept would also see there being a couple million TOR style 
routers available to the freenet expanding both the speed and security.

The Seti at Home application running the distributed  processing for the 
Seti Project was a fairly burdensome program when your computer when 
idle on  screen saver mode it was quite happy to take over what ever 
system resources it could. Often times I would see my system hitting 
100% cpu when I wasnt using it.

People are willing to "Donate To the Cause" IF your machine is on 24/7 
the 8 hours your sleeping even the Gamers out there wont care so long as 
when they are playing the game they dont loose latency.

Mini Node.... enough to access it for chatting, and to function as a 
relay for freenet is one idea.

The second idea is to use the Mini Nodes as MINI SERVERS.... You would 
not be able to keep a server on a single IP long 10 - 15 mins and it 
would need to be redundant by putting 4 or 8 or what ever together so 
that any one server set looses one member the other 4 take over. They 
hang out on some ones chat node for 10 mins and move on...

A FreeNet Server Applet..... The Web Pages are fairly static in nature 
due to the security using the Chat Mini Nodes as temp servers would 
bring a bit of dynamics to the system would be one idea as a use for a 
MINI NODE.

With the Offline Storage Concept.

 >The problem with this is that if it relies on the user coming up with the
 >disk, not only will latency be terrible, but in many cases the user 
won't be
 >bothered - it's just way too much work to find a specific disk, at 
least in
 >my house!

In a system where only 3 people have a copy of the file wanted yes 
latency would be wait till it gets put in.... but in a system where 5 
million people could be asked if it was a common burned file ( IE: a 
win98 DLL that went bad and some one needed a copy of) out of 5 million 
that could be asked and the million that have it some one will have it 
handy and put it in.

And the idea with it is to make it of a benefit to the user as well not 
just to the freenet.

The application I have in mind would provide the user with an index of 
the off line files they have stored, as they scan in the cd/dvd the 
system builds them a nice little storage index database so that they are 
able to find things.... all they need to do is mark them #1 #2 etc.

The system would also need to generate the file id hash's ideally for a 
number of the P2P apps as well as part of the Database.

With the Hash's all ready if a person goes to click on a file the 
database can look it up and tell the user you have that file on disc #12 
already.... (benefit is saves the bandwidth for the freenet and for the 
user as well as time)

The DataBase does not get published your not all of a sudden sharing 
everything burnt publicly even on an anon system.... the Freenet uses it 
to when it has a file that is either no longer on the system or is only 
78% complete as a few of the nodes no longer have the blocks that would 
have completed it.

In a small user base system this would be SLOW but in a large user base 
system it could see 500 copies brought online by various users instead 
of being a brand new seed in terms of Bit Torrent and it being 
propagated back into the free net, with 500 copies it becomes and 
instant swarm and you have 90k/sec down. with non of them upping more 
than a few K each.