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It can be done. Child porn (I'm in no way endorsing the viewing of it obviously) is extinct from the internet as we all know it. And when talking about smaller
by Anon1096 9y ago
It can be done. Child porn (I'm in no way endorsing the viewing of it obviously) is extinct from the internet as we all know it. And when talking about smaller instances like the Daily Stormer it becomes clear that internet censorship is very real and very possible.
- mirimir 9y agoFreenet is part of the Internet, and it's full of child porn. Indeed, it's rather a honeypot for authorities to exploit. So much for plausible deniability.
- tim333 9y agoYeah, I was thinking with drugs, ISIS and child porn while the internet is almost impossible to censor, it's also not that great at protecting privacy with the result that the bad guys often get arrested or killed eventually.
- mirimir 9y agoIndeed. And that's Freenet's problem. It does a great job of obscuring locally stored content. The majority of data on your box may be child porn, but nobody can tell. However, Freenet relies on randomized request and data forwarding for deniability. That seemed reasonable, a decade ago. But investigators have figured out how to determine that a particular node has handled pieces of a particular file. Not that the user loaded or requested the file. Just that their node handled part of it. And of course, IP addresses aren't obscured. So investigators run nodes, and serve child porn. And then they accumulate IPs of peers that handle pieces of said child porn. And get subpoenas for those in their jurisdictions, and raid users. And have experts that bullshit juries about how Freenet works. Understandably, most defendants settle. Except, for example, that guy who's rotting in a Philadelphia jail.