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• naesten commented  ·  April 27, 2010 1:46 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @ianclarke: it could, uh, automatically lose your files?

• Admintoad (Admin, Freenet Project Inc.) commented  ·  April 28, 2009 11:46 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Agreed, that would be great.

• Infected commented  ·  April 26, 2009 7:10 p.m.  ·  Delete

  When freenet is more popular, I think it'll be possible to sell preconfigured freenet systems. Just a small, efficient PC that can run 24/7 and provide freenet services on the LAN. So a custum distro could be optimized for this purpose (archlinux + freenet ?) and it could also be free so anyone could turn an old PC into a dedicated freenet server for their LAN. Most computers are noisy and energy wasters so it makes sense to shut them down when not in use and have only the 1 efficient box handling everything.

• Admintoad (Admin, Freenet Project Inc.) commented  ·  February 5, 2009 1:52 p.m.  ·  Delete

  It's not a bad idea, but it is indeed out of scope for us. Hopefully somebody will do something though ... there are various privacy focused livecd projects already.. maybe they could be forked, or freenet functionality added on.

  With regards to freenet filesystem, it's not an exact match, you need a way to commit, also for read, it won't be listable in the upper dirs (like ftpfs / andrew fs).

• enigma commented  ·  January 26, 2009 12:10 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Within Linux, FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) is the right basis. for example mkdir /freenet/newdir creates a new pair of user keys. One Dir is RO for the public site, one is a RW one for content management. A successful read to a public key of an other user will create an visible entry to the freenet directory like host names in SUN's /net auto-mounting folder. (autofs V4) Thats usefull!

• enigma commented  ·  January 26, 2009 11:58 a.m.  ·  Delete

  In the past freenet was communicated as communication system, but it is more a distributed file system then an communication platform. In my opinion, the right support is file system to mount freenet! frost my be substitute by an local apache with /freenet as htdocs root point. Creating private key may be done with some specific mkdir. Insert management may be done internally; publishing by a cp

• p12p11 commented  ·  January 24, 2009 6:27 a.m.  ·  Delete

  My proposal is a VMware image containing:
  latest ubuntu
  20G hdd space
  freenet + some freenet tools
  Tor
  other useful tools and tweaks you might consider

• luchtan commented  ·  December 26, 2008 9:53 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Gosh, you could also have all the TOR stuff, the smallmail, the privoxy stuff configured out of the box....

• luchtan commented  ·  December 26, 2008 9:08 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Also, whenever a user logs in or the machine turns on, you can spoof the mac address immediately. I don't know how to do this but I bet it could be put in some sort of start-up or log-in script.

• luchtan commented  ·  December 12, 2008 5:39 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I am not going to over-comment this post. I could add more ideas, but I am limited as to how many characters I can write. Is there a way to edit the original suggestion?

• luchtan commented  ·  December 12, 2008 5:37 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Some ideas on specifics:
  *Create a PGP key profile with every user account
  *Create a partition specifically for storing freenet content
  *Move the freenet wizard to the install
  *Have an extra alternately branded browser, 'fuego zorro' so to speak, which is used only to connect to freenet and has it's own profile. This can help separate the 'freenet' from the 'internet' in the user's mind.

• luchtan commented  ·  December 12, 2008 5:29 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Ok.
  I don't think that it would make, say, the concept of the freenet network topology any less complicated, but the idea of what it is and how to integrate it into your browsing might be made clearer with a freenet/security-conscious/rebel's distribution. Perhaps it is out of the scope of this project, but I will try and add some specifics as requested in the comment in another comment.

• Admins1n1ster (Admin, Freenet Project Inc.) commented  ·  December 11, 2008 8:32 p.m.  ·  Delete

  This really needs some specifics. Exactly how should Freenet be "cryptographically deeply integrated", and what benefits would this provide?