Editing Hyphanet (section)

==Vulnerabilities==
Law enforcement agencies have claimed to have successfully infiltrated Freenet opennet in order to deanonymize users<ref>{{cite news |last=Volpenheim |first=Sarah |url=https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/predators-police-in-online-struggle |title=Predators, police in online struggle |newspaper=The Dickinson Press |date=18 November 2015 |access-date=30 December 2023 |archive-date=30 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230234948/https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/predators-police-in-online-struggle |url-status=live }}</ref> but no technical details have been given to support these allegations. One report stated that, "A [[child porn|child-porn]] investigation focused on&nbsp;... [the suspect] when the authorities were monitoring the online network, Freenet."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/man-jailed-indefinitely-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives-loses-appeal/|title=Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal|date=20 March 2017|work=Ars Technica|access-date=21 March 2017|language=en-us|archive-date=21 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321062227/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/man-jailed-indefinitely-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives-loses-appeal/|url-status=live}}</ref> A different report indicated arrests may have been based on the BlackICE project leaks, that are debunked for using bad math<ref>{{cite web|url=https://freenetproject.org/police-departments-tracking-efforts-based-on-false-statistics.html|title=Police department's tracking efforts based on false statistics|website=freenetproject.org|date=26 May 2016 |access-date=23 September 2017|archive-date=5 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205041920/https://freenetproject.org/police-departments-tracking-efforts-based-on-false-statistics.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and for using an incorrectly calculated false positives rate and a false model.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.draketo.de/software/levine-2017-errors|website=draketo.de|access-date=3 January 2021|title=Errors in the Levine 2017 paper on attacks against Freenet|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414044800/https://www.draketo.de/software/levine-2017-errors|url-status=live}}</ref>

A court case in the Peel Region of Ontario, ''Canada R. v. Owen'', 2017 ONCJ 729 (CanLII), illustrated that law enforcement do in fact have a presence, after Peel Regional Police located who had been downloading illegal material on the Freenet network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2017/2017oncj729/2017oncj729.html|title=CanLII - 2017 ONCJ 729 (CanLII)|date=3 November 2017 |access-date=13 November 2017|archive-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117201444/https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2017/2017oncj729/2017oncj729.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The court decision indicates that a Canadian Law Enforcement agency operates nodes running modified Freenet software in the hope of determining who is requesting illegal material.

*'''Routing Table Insertion''' (RTI) Attack<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261061477| title = A Routing Table Insertion (RTI) Attack on Freenet| access-date = 12 February 2021| archive-date = 5 February 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220205041920/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261061477_A_Routing_Table_Insertion_RTI_Attack_on_Freenet| url-status = live}}</ref>