[p2p-hackers] Winny anonymity

[Johan Fänge]

Ian Clarke wrote:

> Nazareno Andrade wrote:
> 
>> I read somewhere that it uses Freenet as its backbone, does anybody
>> knows were this information comes from?
> 
> 
> They claim to have based some of their ideas on Freenet, but it is
> unclear which ones.  Personally, until they publish a detailed spec, I
> would assume that it is no more anonymous than any other P2P app.
> 
> Ian.

Here seems to be someone who has done some sniffing and come to the
conclusion that it infact does not give anonymity:

http://www.netagent.co.jp/onepoint/winny.html

(However, it's a little hard to tell as my Japanese is a bit lacking...)

/Vaste