GNUnet

[miriam_e]

The GNUnet project for anonymous, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer networking http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/index.html and http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/documentation.php3

Cool stuff. Very important in this time of increasing restrictions on freedom.

Comments

Re: peer to peer

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

LiveJournal is that too. It is a server that is kinda a middleman for peer-to-peer contact. True peer-to-peer doesn't use a middleman at all.

The server-based model is like meeting someone at a cafe or a nightclub or the park. Sometimes you have to pay, sometimes you don't, but you meet somewhere. Peer-to-peer is like each person having walkie-talkies and chatting directly to each other. Or meeting up to go for a long stroll around the countryside together -- you aren't at anyplace in particular... just chatting.

Best I could think of off the top of my head. :)

Re: peer to peer

[slackananda.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your friendly reply to what I realize now was a poorly expressed thought. I was using "peer" in a limited, non-technical sense of "fellow person."

I've got many thoughts to work about about complex systems. I wrote this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/slackananda/49080.html) about a sort of opt-in mechanism to let readers choose what types of journal entries they'd like to read. It's not really about Live Journal as much as my interest with these types of interactive systems.