[citation][nom]Bunz_of_Steel[/nom]There is no anonymity on the web. You can make it difficult but it's all traceable to an IP or some hardware address somewhere.[/citation]That is correct but not a problem. The point of anonymous networks is to randomly route encrypted traffic through several nodes so it is very difficult to identify the source and sink nodes for any given communication. If the nodes are in different countries with some having dynamic addresses or masquerading with some else's address then it takes a unrealistic amount of effort to follow the entire chain. The more nodes there are the more difficult it gets.
Note: Freenet is not a P2P network. It is a distributed data storage system with encryption. Nodes don't provide bandwidth as much as storage space. It still can be used for communications through applications like
Frost. It's slow but the priority is anonymity. The penalty for anonymity is that you don't know what is stored on your system or when. Warez, movies, MP3s, pr0n, child porn, malware, poetry, and persectuion videos from those crazy pro-democracy types in China are all in there somewhere.
You don't search for file names as it doesn't use them. Instead it uses data hashes which don't rely on names. Some of the RIAA/MPAA tricks on other networks of sharing bogus files isn't effective on Freenet as the hash more accurately identifies the files.
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