Freenet
Coverage of Freenet in the Nexus archive.
- Springfield man convicted of possession of child sex abuse images
A 39-year-old Springfield, Virginia man, Nathaniel Lee, was convicted of possessing 4 million child sex abuse images. He was found guilty on three counts following a bench trial and is scheduled for sentencing on January 6.
- Feds’ child porn probe of peer-to-peer Freenet software gets First Circuit approval
A First Circuit panel upheld the conviction of Eric Robert Johnson for possession of child pornography, ruling that the federal investigation using Freenet Roundup did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Johnson argued the government conducted broad surveillance, but the court found the probe was akin to ordinary Freenet user activity. Investigators later recovered over 5,000 child pornography files and related items during a physical search of Johnson's residence.
- Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures
An investigation reveals that Russian censorship systems (TMCT) have exposed Chinese DPI signatures. The article provides a link to the analysis and Hacker News comments.
- Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
A developer announces a ground-up redesign of Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized applications that has been operational since December. The new architecture functions as a global decentralized key-value store using WebAssembly contracts with a unique commutative merge operation for state consistency, and includes early applications like River (decentralized chat) and Delta (decentralized CMS).