On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:13:38AM -0600, Mark J Roberts 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. > > > 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.) > > Now be serious. 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. Unless they're not very java literate. All you need is a way to get from a readable freenet key to the hex thing in the table on GJ's monitor, then poll the table every so often and delete 'bad' keys - this is a lot easier than getting into Fred's code. > > And guess what? Nothing you or I do will stop them. So get over it!
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