<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>I thought the point of freedombox was to provide privacy and control of your data?</div><div>This is exactly what Retroshare tries to do - in a fully decentralised manner ;)</div><div><br></div><div>I'd rather not just focus on file-sharing features either... </div><div>Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums?</div><div><br></div><div>------</div><div><br></div><div>Marc, if you are interested in anonymity... Retroshare provides strong anonymity.</div><div>Certainly better than bittorrent or other file-sharing networks like Mute.</div><div><br></div><div>The key is to build a trusted link-level network on which the file-sharing can take place.</div><div><br></div><div>We use the "Turtle" protocol - developed by Tanenbaum's group from the Vrije University.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a link to an academic paper describing the "Strong Anonymity" features of Turtle:</div><div><b><a href="http://www.turtle4privacy.org/documents/sec_prot04.pdf">http://www.turtle4privacy.org/documents/sec_prot04.pdf</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><div>and the wikipedia page on Turtle:</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_F2F">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_F2F</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Mark.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On 12 Sep 2011, at 17:09, <a href="mailto:freedombox-discuss-request@lists.alioth.debian.org">freedombox-discuss-request@lists.alioth.debian.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Message: 2<br>Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:30:32 +0200<br>From: Marc Manthey <<a href="mailto:marc@let.de">marc@let.de</a>><br>To: freedombox list <<a href="mailto:freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org">freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Retroshare?<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1F7CBCDB-95F7-4887-A090-D78714D2EA7A@let.de">1F7CBCDB-95F7-4887-A090-D78714D2EA7A@let.de</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed";<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>DelSp="yes"<br><br><br>On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">perhaps even a no brainer.<br></blockquote><br><br>ok , i might be the no brainer because i did not get the concept or <br>idea.<br><br>If i need a file (software , music track ) illegal or not i download <br>a bittorrent client go to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://piratebay.org/">piratebay.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and get it.<br><br>i want the highest possible annonymity, why should i "add" people , <br>there might be<br><br>an agent from the music industry or a software company and just want <br>to catch me and what i am sharing ?<br><br>What do i miss ?<br><br>thanks marc<br><br><br>P.S. if i want to share something with my "friends " i upload it on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.2shared.com/">http://www.2shared.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> for e.g. and send them the link<br><br>-- Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment<br>Marc Manthey- Vogelsangerstrasse 97<br>50823 K?ln - Germany<br>Tel.:0049-221-29891489<br>Mobil:0049-1577-3329231<br>site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://let.de/">http://let.de</a><br>project :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://stattfernsehen.com/">http://stattfernsehen.com</a><br>twitter:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/">http://twitter.com/macbroadcast/</a><br>Buy me:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://on.let.de/BUYme">http://on.let.de/BUYme</a><br><br>Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and <br>certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).<br><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>