This is a funding proposal I sent to Open Technology Fund to make Freenet suitable for Journalists and their sources. Sadly it got rejected, but maybe it helps future proposals.
Project name: Freenet for Journalists
Duration: 24 months
Amount: 800000
Contact name: Arne Babenhauserheide
Contact email: arne_bab -ät- web -punkt- de
Australia gets mandatory data retention — with unchecked access by roughly any local or federal police agency and “Any other agency the Attorney General publicly declares”. (So much for separation of powers)
And they can use that in court.
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Dear Australians: This is what we have been talking about the past 10 years. The tech for confidential communication might still be cumbersome to use, but you now need it.
If you want to use Freenet for that, I’ll gladly help you set it up.
A long time ago in a chatroom far away, select groups of crypto-anarchists gathered to discuss the death of privacy since the NSA could spy on all communications with ease. Among those who proposed technical solutions was a student who later published the widely regarded first paper on Freenet: A decentralized anonymous datastore which was meant to be a cypherpunk paradise: true censorship resistance, no central authority and long lifetime only for information which people were actually interested in.
Many years passed, two towers fell, the empire expanded its hunt for rebels all over the globe, and now, as the empire’s grip has become so horrid that even the most loyal servants of the emperors turn against them and expose their dark secrets to the masses, Freenet is still moving forward. Lost to the eye of the public, Freenet shaped and reshaped itself - all the while maintaining its focus to provide true freedom of the press in the internet.