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Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing.

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  1. Freenet build 1475 released

    (This news item was not published until July 16th. Sorry for the delay.) Freenet 0.7.5 build 1475 is now available. Build 1474 was an emergency release which fixed a denial of service attack which prevented the node from processing other...

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  2. Police department's tracking efforts based on false statistics

    Documents initially made public by the Missouri police department describe their efforts on tracking Freenet usage. Using a simple scheme, they claim a near zero false positive rate for tracking the originator of a download. While we applaud all public...

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  3. Freenet build 1473 released

    Freenet 0.7.5 build 1473 is now available. This is the first build to require Java 7! It upgrades Bouncy Castle to version 1.54, and adds a Traditional Chinese translation to the Windows installer. Plugin updates: Add Sharesite - a fork...

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  4. DuckDuckGo donated $25,000

    The Freenet Project is very excited to announce that DuckDuckGo have donated $25,000 to our project. This new funding will be used to advance our goal of ensuring true freedom of communication on the Internet. The project has always operated...

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Testimonials

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet
/ Electronic Freedom Foundation