A global decentralized encrypted datastore with anonymous publishing
Unfortunately it will end up full of kidporn just like Freenet. This says a lot about the present state humanity, and what it says isn't good. Giordano Bruno and the Renaissance alchemists would have killed for a system like this, but the most interesting thing we can think of to do with it is fill it full of pictures of child abuse so people can jack off to them.<p>It's nasty stuff, too. This is not "merely offensive." Kids are abducted and murdered to make this stuff. In some cases, the act of making it causes bodily harm. (Think of the mechanics of an adult having sex with a six year old.) In parts of the world children are more or less raised for the purpose. It's horrific. Picture someone getting off on photos of war atrocities. This is up there with that, but worse... imagine that the war was held expressly for the purpose of producing the images.<p>Edit: there is also, of course, rape porn depicting adults being abused horrifically. That isn't any better, and freenets are full of that sort of stuff too.<p>I'm not saying the technology is bad. I'm saying that it says something very depressing about the users of said technology. It also makes me dubious about running nodes on such networks, since I know that a lot of the material I'll be storing and forwarding is abuse-porn.