On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:19:38PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > Hmm, I think that's avoiding the system, imagain this is infinite storage,
> > > or at least the storage is increased qicker than the demand for the
> > > storage.
> >
> > It's possible. An infininode is a pretty good attack on Freenet.
> >
> > One way to make it harder would be to depreciate references to nodes
> > that don't show good throughput. Then your infininode would need a lot
> > of bandwidth to stay referenced.
>
> Why would this be an attack, rather than a useful and quite nice thing for
> people who want perminant data, but don't want to change the nature of
> freenet?
Because it seriously damages anonymity. Besides, the only people with
the bandwidth to handle half Freenet's traffic are governments and large
corporations, and you know how much they love us.
But an attacker wouldn't even have to serve any substantial
files--redirects are just as revealing, and far less expensive. You can
harvest popular redirects from freesites and keyindexes, and you can
insert KSKs with popular keys ("mp3" and so on).
--
"Is our system--was it invented by scientists?"
"No. If scientists had invented it, they'd have tried it out first on hamsters."
Mark Roberts | mjr at statesmean.com
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