George Ellenburg (he/him/his)<p>Did you know that <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/GNU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a>/ <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/FSF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FSF</a> has its own <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/darknet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darknet</a> application and protocol stack?</p><blockquote>What is <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/GNUnet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNUnet</a><span>?<br><br>GNUnet is an </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/alternative" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alternative</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/network" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#network</a> stack for building <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/secure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#secure</a>, <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/decentralized" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralized</a> and <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/privacy-preserving" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy-preserving</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/distributed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#distributed</a> applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/publication" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publication</a> of <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/files" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#files</a><span>, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.<br><br>Today, the actual use and thus the social requirements for a global network differs widely from those goals of 1970. While the Internet remains suitable for military use, where the network equipment is operated by a command hierarchy and when necessary isolated from the rest of the world, the situation is less tenable for civil society.<br><br>Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".<br><br>We believe liberal societies need a </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/network" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#network</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/architecture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> that uses the <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/anti-authoritarian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anti-authoritarian</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/decentralized" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralized</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/peer-to-peer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peer-to-peer</a> paradigm and <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/privacy-preserving" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy-preserving</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/cryptographic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cryptographic</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/protocols" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protocols</a>. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal. </blockquote><a href="https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html</a><p></p>