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		notanzaiiswear on Sept 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-... But if somebody downloads the data, and they can track the source to your computer, do they even have to decrypt it on your computer? (I mean does law enforcement have to decrypt it on your computer, or could they just indirectly prove you hosted the data).

cgtzczykldpq on Sept 20, 2021 [–]

The anonymized routing prevents them from tracking the source to your computer.

If someone downloads something on Freenet they don't know where it is coming from.

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