LS & FreeNet

[ElQuia]

Hello guys, been looking from the outside at littleshoot for some
time. I am looking for a tool that::
stops "big brother"
ensures my free speech
really protects my privacy
lets me change ideas, info and files irectly with others in privacy
etc
How does LittleShoot qualify? I'm new at this so sorry for the
question: How does LS relate and compare to FreeNet??

[adamfisk]

It's interesting you bring this up. We've recently started a sort of
sister non-profit called "Brave New Software" that focuses more on the
issues you're talking about and will ultimately result in an optional
"add-on" to LittleShoot 1.0. That tool is more focused on
circumventing censors in countries where the Internet is censored, and
it uses some of the LittleShoot core to operate.

Outside of that, LittleShoot's P2P architecture has the nice property
of simply creating multiple copies of files. This is helpful in
situations where you suspect a file may become blocked at some point
in the future for any reason. It can be helpful to store multiple
copies in the same way that say WikiLeaks distributes files across
many servers.

As you've undoubtedly seen, though, we've had the publishing feature
of LittleShoot disabled for some time. The long-awaited LittleShoot
1.0 release focuses on publishing, allowing you to publish p2p files
for free and send normal HTTP links to those files to whoever you
like. Publishing will also be instant, as it just notifies our servers
that the given file is now available on your computer. It will then
also upload a backup copy to make sure it's available when your
computer is offline. Overall, the publishing system is completely
oriented towards enabling greater and easier freedom of speech in
terms of the ease of sharing files.

While we've adopted a policy of not announcing release dates, the work
on LittleShoot 1.0 is coming along nicely. If you care to follow along
more closely with the progress, you can do so here:

http://dev.littleshoot.org:8081/browse/LS/fixforversion/10036

Note that some of the issues designated for 1.0 may ultimately be
pushed off to a subsequent release.

-Adam

[adamfisk]

Oh, and on the FreeNet front, LittleShoot is different in the sense
that it focuses much less on anonymity and more on pure performance.
There's always a tradeoff between the two. Ian Clarke, the creator of
FreeNet, is a good friend, though, and he and I are in frequent
contact. I'll hopefully see him down in Austin in November, and we'll
likely go over the details of the new add-on from Brave New Software
and how it relates to Freenet.

Thanks.

-Adam

[abigdreamer]

what's the status of 1.0?