FreeNet
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:15 am
This is more of a warning than anything else. I tried installing and using this P2P system , after reading its aims and feeling it would be nice to help out and do my bit . Big mistake 
I would not recommend this to anyone until it cleans up its act.
Read about it here
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
And for the very brave (or just those who like to live dangerously
)
http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/fre ... nstall.exe
That will install a Java runtime and the main program onto your machine.
I suggest making a restore point about now and as the main page says be prepared to wait a few minutes while it "finds its feet" on the network.
My system was flooded with spyware even though I had installed it from the correct site and it took me a while to clean up ,What is 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. 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.
I would not recommend this to anyone until it cleans up its act.
Read about it here
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
And for the very brave (or just those who like to live dangerously
)http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/fre ... nstall.exe
That will install a Java runtime and the main program onto your machine.
I suggest making a restore point about now and as the main page says be prepared to wait a few minutes while it "finds its feet" on the network.
