>From coderman <coderman at mindspring.com> > >Now here is a question. Is there any kind of feedback in this kind of >searching system? Could someone upload a ton of meta data for spamming >purposes? If you found a meta data key that contained spam (i.e. >referenced some file that was a short audio clip chastising mp3 sharing) >is there a way to remove or filter it? Would you even want such a feature? > >And finally, what are the limits to what one person can insert into the >network as far as meta data is concerned? In Gnutella bandwidth is a >limiting factor. If someone spams freenet can they persist this spam >indefinately since it will appear popular (i.e. using very common and >popular keys to ensure numerous matches) ? > >Some things to ponder on. I suppose that this may not be too large of a >problem, but I can see it becoming such very easily. Kind of like those >spam kits they sell now. Anyone can be a spammer. What happens when such >a kit is available for freenet? > >Best regards, > Martin Peck.
Yeah, once you put a search entry onto a popular keyword, it would stay around, relevant or not. Even reputation filtering wouldn't help that, since it would be applied (by necessity) at the client after requesting all the bogus data. The only way I can think of to fight this would be a hash-cash style system that creates an artificial "cost" to inserting search data, low enough to be a non-issue for most users, but high enough to make massive spamming an unpleasant prospect. Some of the #Freenet regulars and planned out a hashcash-based keytype that would allow something like that, I'll see if I can find my notes... -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
