At 04.13 06/02/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Marco A. Calamari:
> > this tool is an useful debugging and administration tool.
>
>I passionately hate the concept of node administration. Nodes aren't
>cars, they don't require oil changes every 3,000 requests.

Ok, open another thread; this isn't the subject

> > this is just an hole in the "deep security" model of Freenet as a
> > whole; I cannot say why, because is just another weapon for an
> > attacker, but I can say that not giving one more weapon is better.
>
>(In this case, the attacker is someone who refuses to distribute
>certain keys.)

No, you cannot know who is the attacker or what is the objective or what mean
  it will use.

>Now be serious.

I already was.

>  Can you really imagine these responsible censors
>constantly hovering over the delete key armed with a big book of
>prohibited keys, occasionally vaporizing an unwanted invader?
>
>Right, I can't either. That's an absurd idea. Here in the real
>world, someone would add a couple hundred lines of code to Fred, in
>order to refuse any requests for specified keys.
>
>And guess what? Nothing you or I do will stop them. So get over it!

Obviously a fake node can do everything it want + everything
  that normal node allow. Tjis is not the point.

If normal node doesn't allow key deletion there is one less
  possible way to exploit a bug.

JM2(serious)C     Marco

Oh, note that we agree on the subject; Say no to ClientDelete



* Marco A. Calamari  marco at freenetproject.org *

il  Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco
the Freenet  Project - follow the  white rabbit


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