----- Forwarded message from John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> -----

Sure. Here are three more scenarios. What all of them share is that YOU choose which friends with static IP addresses to trust, and that those friends' FreedomBoxes handle much of the setup and maintenance overhead. These three scenarios don't require ANY centralized infrastructure other than a DNS provider that everyone needs anyway.

Since FreedomBox is built out of standardized software, even friends who don't have FreedomBoxes can act as your friends, if they are already running, or willing to run, that software on their existing Linux servers.

<Disclaimer> I'm out of the loop on the central conversation, having only this forward as a reference, so I may be reinventing prior suggestion(s) </Disclaimer> Is there any serious discussion of using [multiple] encrypted layer 2 tunnels? Assuming the tunnelling data is *not* part of the firmware, it would be lost if the box were disconnected [read: siezed], providing an extra layer of protection for figuring out who has what where. //Alif -- Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. An American Spring is coming: one way or another.