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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
The automatically generated Linux snapshots now contain the various major improvements that have been made to the code over the past few weeks, including the all-new (and almost bug free) datastore code, efficiency tweaks to some of the encryption algorithms, significant improvements to Freenet's handling of unreliable nodes, and a clean-up of the code base.
Well, things are really starting to happen. Just to keep everyone in the picture, I have written a progress report page. I hope to do this occasionally to both reassure people that development is ongoing, and to manage expectations.
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 providing security without reliance on a central authority. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.
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Any press enquiries about Freenet should be directed to Ian Clarke.
Click here to download the latest 0.4 release for Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh.
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