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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Click here to download the latest 0.4 release for Windows, Linux, and the Apple Macintosh.

News

23rd February 2002, State of Freenet #3

Ian has written the third of his State of Freenet articles, describing the current status of Freenet.

17th February 2002, Why Freenet is Complicated (or not)

Freenet's crypto guru, Scott Miller, has written a response on InfoAnarchy.org to some criticisms of the Freenet protocol made by Steven Hazel, author of libfreenet, during Steven's talk at CodeCon today. You can listen to Steven's talk via this mp3 stream, but it starts about 40 minutes in.


Background

Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.

Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.


Media enquiries

Any press enquiries about Freenet should be directed to Ian Clarke.