Signal 11 wrote:

> addition. OTOH, as a simple example, if I created a client that
> injected worthless data into the network and then requested it
> over and over again, after awhile the signal-to-noise ratio would
> cause freenet to collapse. A counter-defense?

No, no, no. If you're requesting that garbage from only one location,
the closest node (yours or the one you're talking to) would just cache
the data and spit it back at you as many times as you like. The rest of
the network wouldn't feel a thing. Worst case scenario, you take out the
first node in the chain. Then what? Sick your client on another node?
How do you find more nodes once you've been blocked from the first bunch
you overloaded? How much bandwidth do you have? How do you avoid being
tracked down?


-- 
Mark Roberts
mroberts100 at mediaone.net
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