Hyphanet

Reclaim Your Privacy!

Hyphanet makes it easy to publish and follow what others publish with strong privacy protections.

Plugins built on its decentralized data store make it very easy to host your own website and provide microblogging and forums, media sharing from files to video-on-demand and decentralized version tracking, blogging and spam resistance without central authority.

For an easy start you can join the global Opennet. For maximum privacy, connect to your friends and build a friend-to-friend network independent of and invisible to any centralized server. To access the global network, you either need some friends who also connect to opennet, or use the Shoeshop plugin to build a sneakernet that can even bridge separate friend-to-friend networks when your regional internet itself gets severed from the global information network.

Lots of additional information about Hyphanet and its history is available on Wikipedia.

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What's New

1. Freenet build 1485 released

   2020-02-14

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1485 is now available. This release adds checking for Ogg Theora video files thanks to redwerk: Freenet can now display video safely. For files whose size does not shrink a lot by compression, compression is now skipped. This...

2. Statistical results without false positives check are most likely wrong

   2019-09-09

   Like every other privacy network, Freenet is a target of statistical attacks to trace the activity of its users. Studies that investigated tracing Freenet users were built on unrealistic idealized setups or simplistic routing, so that their results...

3. Freenet build 1484 released

   2019-03-23

   Freenet 0.7.5 build 1484 is now available. This release fixes the last blocking problems with the new build based on gradle and JNA and adds new features. Thesnark discovered a way to circumvent the content filter, which was fixed by operhiem1. This...

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Why we do this

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