David McNab wrote:
>
> Anyone can write a prog to insert millions of files into Freenet, through
> FNP, via nodes harvested from inform.php. This would stop most or all good
> data from being visible, and keep everyone's datastore full of spam.
>
> Imagine a thousand or so spamming nodes, each hitting inform.php, and
> intermittently FNP'ing terabytes a day of bulk spam to discovered nodes!
> We'd have a Freenet full of white noise :(
>
Also consider these multiple rogure nodes in multiple places not only inserting data,
but
also requesting the bogus data insterted at various places. This would have the
effect of
making the data appear popular, and thus propagating it, while in fact it is purely
useless.
Interesting possibilities...
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