The anonymous publishing, messaging and file sharing network known as Freenet 0.5 is, in my opinion, finally dead. I first started using Freenet around 2004 a little while before version 0.5 was released. It was a great idea, one that I consider to be very important in today’s world where “Big Brother” is increasingly snooping […]
I know that in recent weeks I haven’t had much to say here about the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress and I really should have. Suffice it to say that there’s been a lot of complications that have kept me busy with things of a more personal nature. However that doesn’t change the fact […]
I’ve been running a Freenet node for a long time. When I first started it up Freenet was at 0.4. A couple of months later it was at version 0.5 and some time after that I was able to run my node 24/7 most of the time. With the exception of occasional downtime due to […]
Wednesday a blogger in Nuevo Laredo that was known on social networking sites only by his nickname – Rascatripas (or Belly Scratcher) became the fourth Mexican blogger since early September to be killed. According to the news report that I read he helped moderate “En vivo” a site that posts news about shootouts and other […]
Over the last few years I have seen a number of answers to that question that go in to considerable technical detail but I think that the main reason to use Freenet Classic Opennet (FCON) [which I will refer to as “freenet” or “freenet 0.5”] is a simple trust issue. You see the current 0.7.5 […]