I was swapping references in the #freenet-refs channel on IRC when an
idea came up - having a Freenet plugin that would scrape noderefs off
the IRC channel, or maybe post them online. Initially it seems like a
wonderful idea - the more connections the better, right? So then I
started looking for plugin documentation... oops, none yet. My current
plan is to have a small PHP script that parses the
http://localhost:8888/darknet/ page But before I dive in and start
coding, I was wondering if there were any issues with doing this. I'm
the first to admit I don't have a good understanding of Freenet or
darknets in general, but it seems to me that more connections is better,
and that any adjacent nodes shouldn't be able to compromise your privacy
(any more than is already possible due to the alpha state) because
anything coming through your node could have been bounced off of you by
any of the other nodes adjacent to you - or is this no longer true of
.7? (I seem to remember it as a large part of .5)
Is this a worthwhile pursuit?
Thanks for any tips,
Steven Schlansker
