Re: Updated FAQ attacks section

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 05:19, Roc Admin wrote:
> 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

Arguably that's what the attacks page updates were about??
> 
> 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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