Quote from: hamiltino on February 23, 2014, 01:37:00 PM

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Perhaps because it takes time to develop trust in the security of a network? (Which includes trust in the core software, the network and infrastructure, and the core devs.) How long has MaidSafe operated in the wild?

All the code is open source. MaidSafe has mostly done in house testing but you can download and build the code to see it all working.
Tutorials are going to be rolled out very soon:

My point was that it *takes time* to trust a system. Freenet has been around for many years, having experienced and ironed out countless serious unforeseen bugs.

Quote from: hamiltino on February 23, 2014, 01:37:00 PM

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Perhaps because the market is already kindof satisfied with existing solutions? (Freenet, I2p.)

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Freenet, if you have ever tried it is extremely slow and not completely anonymous.

How is it not "completely anonymous"? (As if anything can be.) Are you referring to freenet-opennet, or freenet-darknet -- the latter being the goal, the former being discouraged, but even so, has never been de-anonymized in practice?

It is indeed slow, and not currently suited for real-time low-latency usage. (But nevertheless great for forums and popular file sharing.) What are MaidSafe's latency numbers?

Quote from: hamiltino on February 23, 2014, 01:37:00 PM

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Perhaps because trustless opennet's are doomed by design? (This is why Freenet strongly encourages moving to a strictly darknet friend-to-friend model.)

Thats an issue with encryption and security and not with the concept of a decentralized internet.

Huh? I meant that with trustless opennet's, there is a very serious risk of Agents infiltrating your peers, or poisoning bootstrapping lists, or Sybil-like attacks, etc. Friend-to-friend (darknets as opposed to p2p opennets) offer the only credible solution to this, IMHO.

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