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However the method used by the Missouri police department is using false statistics: despite its flaws, Freenet's Opennet is much harder to track than they claim.

The Freenet developers do not condemn these attacks. Police departments try to use every legal venue to catch criminals. This is their job and vocation, but any attack they find could also be used by oppressive governments to suppress dissenting opinions, so we will work to fix attacks as they come to light. We expect law enforcement to get their math right, especially when using it in court. If they can get a warrant with an 83% false positive rate, that's a problem for lawmakers. If they falsely claim a 0% false positive rate, that's eroding the trust of citizens in the legal system.

The mission of the Freenet Project is to safeguard freedom of the press by providing censorship resistant communication. This requires protecting people against being targeted for what they write or read. To achieve this, Freenet enables users to publish anonymous websites and offers chat, forums, and file-sharing, as well as confidential communication among friends and methods to leverage the capabilities of Freenet from other tools.

When the police spread misinformation about the security of Freenet, it directly undermines our mission by driving users to networks which cannot provide a comparable level of security for whistle-blowers and those wishing to publish anonymously.