[Mldonkey-users] RE: Mldonkey and anonymity

[Spirit Ghostwalker]

I think anonymity is a big problem with edonkey. 
If I understand the system, people that want to find
out about what you do on the donkey network simple
need to look for your client md4 and can identify you
no matter if your ip changed or you stay off the net
for some time. 
The emule credit system is a very bad idea in this
context since it forces the users to keep one client
md4 in order to keep their credits with the clients.

I would suggest an option in mldonkey to change the
md4 (as well as the username) automatically in a
certain time period. The user can then decide if
loosing some of his credits is worth the additional
anonymity.

spirit


Monday, May 26, 2003, 12:43:06 PM, axzv59 wrote:

Hi,

I had been using mldonkey for a few monthes but i
stopped because 
here in France, some providers had threaten their
customers, even if 
I think this a more due to kazaa than the edonkey
network. I really 
regret this because mldonkey is so great and to
continue to read this 
mailing list always give me temptation to restart my
P2P activity ( I 
was about 1.5Go per day :-) ). So I'd like to know if
there's a way 
to protect mldonkey users : something that make
difficult for 
providers to detect P2P activity.
I think anonymity is really and will be really more
and more a 
problem regarding to future laws. So i don't
understand why this not 
more considerate by mldonkey developpers.

axzv59

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