Ian Clarke wrote:

I do wish you would refer to these networks as those which allow the covert transmission of information, rather than those which are used for the illegal transmission of information - since I am not aware of any networks that are specifically designed for the illegal transmission of information. I think this would help alleviate the political problem you raise later in your email.

The concept of a networking technology or a network which is specifically used for illegal information is an interesting concept, for example Tim May "blacknet" [1, 2, 3] and Biddle, et al. "darknet" [4]. If you would like to use "darknet" to mean something else then I can't stop you, but I would like to talk about that concept so I need a word for it. Regards, Zooko P.S. The most salient difference between blacknet [1] and darknet [2] in my opinion is that blacknet is a market, in which participants are motivated by economic gain, and darknet is a more general concept, in which the motivations of participants may be various -- including but not limited to friendship. [1] http://www.privacyexchange.org/iss/confpro/cfpuntraceable.html [2] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ludlow/worries.txt [3] http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/08/msg00538.html [4] http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2005-December/003245.html _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]