> We can't prevent people from their own stupidity :) > No, but we can raise the barrier of entry- For instance, on Windows, most people run as the Administrator all the time... Linux/OS X requires that users use su or sudo before writing to protected files.
I think freenet can have a similar behavior- By implementing a quick HTTP auth on fproxy, it avoids the harvesting problem, as well as avoiding node autoloaders like the one mentioned before. It's also possible to auto-randomize the fproxy port, but I don't think the inconvenience that causes is worth the benefit, when better solutions exist. Http auth, plus a warning advising people to /never/ give out their username/password, should help. And if it doesn't... At least it raises the barrier to entry. > And > according to Ian, that's not a goal we should try to achieve ;) > I would point out that people can add automatically references NOW, trivially, by going through fproxy. I have Ubernode.org set up to automatically add references to itself, and it didn't take a whole lot of effort. (It's a neat experiment. Check it out ;) http://ubernode.org ) I'm not sure what avoiding a FCP command to do the same adds, when a one-line exec(curl blah blah) does the same thing, just in a slightly more messy way. -Colin > NextGen$ > (Convinced too that the reference auto-adder is EVIL!) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
