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 […]
Having recently announced the release of build 5110, the first new build of Freenet Classic Opennet (FCon) in well over two years it has occurred to me that it would be a good idea to put together a brief walkthrough of the installation process. Because I’m a windows user and have never installed it on […]
[Edit June 8, 2012: The Freenet 0.5 network is effectively dead (see this post for details). While you are welcome to try to make this software work and revitalize it, I know of no currently operating nodes. If you DO get a useable network up and running, DO let me know.] A long overdue new […]
A team of Microsoft engineers consisting of Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman set out to “investigate the darknet – a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content”. their conclusions were published in the report known as “Darknet Assumptions”.
Those assumptions boil down to three basic points.
Recently I wrote about a project Modifying Thingamablog For Freenet 0.5 and while I have not yet been able to solve the puzzle of how to make the needed mods for the current version of Thingamablog, I have run into a problem with the templates. Thingamablog uses tags within the templates that need to be […]