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Freenet
Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
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Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack. Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are "routed-through" other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is. Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the "data store") for storing files. Unlike other peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Freenet does not let the user control what is stored in the data store. Instead, files are kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files in the data store are encrypted to reduce the likelihood of prosecution by persons wishing to censor Freenet content. The network can be used in a number of different ways and isn't restricted to just sharing files like other peer-to-peer networks. It acts more like an Internet within an Internet. For example Freenet can be used for: - Publishing websites or 'freesites'
- Communicating via message boards
- Content distribution
Unlike many cutting edge projects, Freenet long ago escaped the science lab, it has been downloaded by over 2 million users since the project started, and it is used for the distribution of censored information all over the world including countries such as China and the Middle East. Ideas and concepts pioneered in Freenet have had a significant impact in the academic world. Our 2000 paper "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System" was the most cited computer science paper of 2000 according to Citeseer, and Freenet has also inspired papers in the worlds of law and philosophy. Ian Clarke, Freenet's creator and project coordinator, was selected as one of the top 100 innovators of 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. The features of Freenet are: - Highly survivable: All internal processes are completely anonymized and decentralized across the global network, making it virtually impossible for an attacker to destroy information or take control of the system.
- Private: Freenet makes it extremely difficult for anyone to spy on the information that you are viewing, publishing, or storing.
- Secure: Information stored in Freenet is protected by strong cryptography against malicious tampering or counterfeiting.
- Efficient: Freenet dynamically replicates and relocates information in response to demand to provide efficient service and minimal bandwidth usage regardless of load. Significantly, Freenet generally requires log(n) time to retrieve a piece of information in a network of size.
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Freenet Comments
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06/17/2008
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The Freenet network is a key piece of infrastructure that is used to help increase anonymous access to the Internet over insecure networks.
Another philosophy is to simply create your own ISP and use your own network to transmit information. You could, for example, do it like the Lawrence Freenet project has in Lawrence, KS [ http://www.lawrencefreenet.org ] where the company has built a city wide network to ensure universal access to information. |
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12/30/2006
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Works fine, does the job. But, it is not simple to use and the material available on the network is rather small quantity-wise. |
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07/10/2006
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As of freenet 0.7 and darknet, I think the future of freenet looks brighter and darker than ever before.
checkout ifreed.net and the freenet irc channel for darknet links. |
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12/16/2004
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Great idea but very very slow. It takes forever for this thing to really get set up. I am on my 3rd day of running it and its still hair pulling slow. Just going from page to antoher takes on average of 30 mins. If you wish to join the community by having a page, you better learn to speak techese. You can tell the people that write the stuff for freenet are truely programming nerds. They have no idea how to make a very simple program, instead its use this code here and then generate another code doing this. Not to mention there seems to be 3 seperate programs that do the same thing but use in a different circumstance... If freenet wants to grow, they had better do alot of things to make it newbie friendly, because as of now.. its far from it. |
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07/08/2004
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seems like a good pogg, many downsides though. I don't like the logo. |
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05/06/2004
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Build 5077 Is much better than previous versions. If you tried it before and couldn't get it to work, it is worth trying again with the new version.Pros- Anonymous, Allows you to have free webpages without a server, interesting and hard to find content. When all the other networks get sued out of existance, only Freenet will remain.Cons- Still slow (but much faster than before), requires a decent system with a few gigs of hd space for the cache, some of the content you dont WANT to find.Advice- Try it! You need to let your node run for a couple days to get fully integrated into the network so give it some time. Also a data store of 3 gigs or more would be ideal. Take the time to learn about it so you know what you are doing and USE MOZILLA NOT IE. Go to settings and set you proxys to 127.0.0.1 for everything too. |
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12/05/2003
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I had to give it middling ratings, as I have not found a way to get it to work. This is not a program for everyday computer users IMHO. As it's very complicated and in order to try to get it to work in the first place ( and work truly anonymously ) you have to try to understand computer networking lingo/mumbo jumbo in thier spare readme/help files. None of which is understandable by anyone with less than a doctorate in IT networking technology!!! They tell you to be "truly anonymous", you should edit some config file with such and such a line but why didn't they just have that line in there to begin with? Or you're told you have to reconfigure/set your web browser with some fancy/smancy setting/s but give you no clue as to how to do it or where you find the place to change the setting. Theres some setting I'm supposed to change in Netscape but I still have not found where or how to change it. They tell you you have to change settings in your firewall if you have one, but once again not enough info on how to do that either. They leave you on your own as to how to figure out all this and much more. If you have an advance IT degree and also have an I.Q. of over 190, then this is the program for you!!! |
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11/08/2003
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Freenet is a pseudo-anonymous network that runs on top of the internet. Currently, to get any performance at all, you need to run a permanent node, rather than an intermittent connection. The latest releases (5031+) seem to be working better and Freenet has recovered from its frozen state of a few weeks ago. Run a node for a week or so and performance does improve as it builds a better routing map (as I understand).Content is accessed by web-browser using the Freenet proxy that runs with your node. Files can also be posted and retrieved using applications that talk to your node, including Frost and FMB. Judging by the Freenet sites and the messages posted on Frost, the majority of users seem to be hardcore hacker/libertarian types with a nasty minority of child molestors.At the moment, content is sparse - it needs to be regularly posted and retrieved to stay alive on the Freenet network. There are a few Freenet sites and some boards on Frost dedicated to sharing multimedia files. Sometimes the retrieval speed is surprisingly fast, I managed to download a 650 MB video at 50 kb/s.As the most recent node versions propogate, Freenet performance should improve further. Freenet is RIAA-proof. If you have the resources, install and leave a node running to contribute to the network. With Freenet, leeching is good. |
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11/02/2003
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Sorry... this might be a brilliantly written program but you can't find jack s**t with it!!! If you like dead links and the speed equivalant to a paralyzed snail than this is the program for you. Otherwise, move on to the next one. Two days I've had this thing running and I got zero. I don't have time to waste waiting forever for ANOTHER dead link to load. |
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10/25/2003
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