[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: simo <idra at samba.org>
> To: Leandro Noferini <lnoferin at cybervalley.org>
> Cc: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project
> 
> On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 17:37 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: 
>>  Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>  [...]
>> 
>>  >> For example here in Italy it is all but easy to have a static ip 
> address
>>  >> in  home connections: again for example my ISP does not sell this 
> kind
>>  >> of service at all.
>>  >> 
>>  >> This is what I mean "normal".
>>  >
>>  > So you really mean normal consumer access to internet, not normal 
>>  > FreedomBox?
>> 
>>  Yes, almost here in Italy, having a static ip address in home
>>  connections it is not normal.
> 
> Not only you do not have static ip addresses, often not even public ip
> address, but just dynamic private addresses and NAT.

Any one of the machines behind a NAT like that can run Tor as we
speak, with the click of a button, using the Tor Browser Bundle.  They
can also make a hidden service available to the rest of the network,
though AFAIK that requires more setup (but no NAT reconfiguration).

-Jonathan

> 
> Simo.
> 
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> Simo Sorce
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> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>
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