Re: Updated FAQ attacks section

Hey Matt,
  Thanks for updating the FAQ - very good stuff.  Can you speak to a
comparison of attacks between Freenet and Tor?  I'm just starting to get
involved with Freenet so if you have a page that already answers this feel
free to point me there

Antitree

2009/1/20 Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>

> http://freenetproject.org/faq.html#attack
>
> I have heavily updated the attacks section on the FAQ (after adding a
> section
> on browsers). We more or less said that Tor provides anonymity and we don't
> on it before, which simply isn't true; Tor does not protect against
> advanced
> (presumably meaning global) traffic analysis, and depending on which
> attacks
> you take seriously doesn't protect against compromise of the majority of
> nodes either, the two examples given. Freenet provides a different kind of
> anonymity, and in some cases it is safer than Tor; in some cases Tor is
> safer. And it will improve significantly with the tunnels implementation we
> will hopefully have in 0.9.
>
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