Moving Freenet more into the realm of actual implementation, a Freenet GUI client has just been released as of yesterday, August 14.

To those with static IP addresses and a constant connection to the Internet who want to run servers, http:/freenet.sourceforge.net/ has the full source code as well as the executable binaries, for Linux, other Unices, and Wintel platforms.

As a short explanation, Freenet is a data storage implementation for the Internet which essentially acts as a large distributed caching system. All information is stored encrypted, and not in any one single source. As information is required, it is copied to a source closer to the requester, so that if data is, say, in England, and requested 100 times from somewhere in California, the information is copied to a source closer to California so that it only need make one slow trip on a transatlantic cable rather than 100. The encryption and caching features means that there is no one source for legal or quasi-legal means to destroy, and multiple requests searching for the same data in an attempt to flood the servers simply results in more copies of the data.

This automates mirroring in a sense and attacks on the system result in more copies of the data. This is rather akin to the manner in which attacks on data in the "Real World" results in more copies as outraged people mirror it, but instead, the outrage is automagic.

The possible applications for the ARSCC spring to the mind unbidden and have already been hashed out extensively on umbra.xenu as well as other locations.

Get on it!

Incidentally, no need to report the www.freenetgui.com site as being attacked or DDOSed, I think the DOS attack currently being launched on the site from multiple sources is entirely accidental ;-) ptsc From: ptsc <ptsc@my-deja.com>
Subject: To test your Freenet installation
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:23:19 -0400
Message-ID: <20rjps05ll664nsb7r2h7uak6hvi1rsfqh@4ax.com>
If you have a working freenet installation, you should be able to issue this command:

java -cp c:\freenet\freenet.jar Freenet.client.RequestClient -listenport 19122 -serveraddress tcp/24.8.189.197:19114 "text/html/Cooper-Scandal_of_Scientology.zip" "c:\scandal.zip"

Make sure it's all on one line.

This should give you a zipfile with an HTML version of Paulette Cooper's _The Scandal of Scientology_.

Enjoy, and welcome to the Internet of the 21st Century. . .give or take a few screaming howling Godzilla-sized bugs. It will only get better from here, and on Freenet, there ARE no websites to be shut down.

Things get real fun from here on out.

ptsc

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