>>>>> "E" == Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E> I still see a problem: What if there is someone no
E> one trusts? He would not be able to use Freenet at all. I am
E> envisioning some powerful agency somehow making a completely
E> trustworthy node suddenly seem untrustworthy (freenet slander).
Yes, that's entirely possible.
E> Also, you would have to know someone to start using Freenet
E> because you need to find at least one node to allow requests.
Yep. Well, there could be some lonely-hearts net B-) like the
inform.php works right now. Or perhaps a public service like
gnutellahosts.com? I dunno.
E> Also: If you have a chain of nodes like the one below, only
E> very long, A could not get data from the last node because the
E> path is longer than the HTL. I know this is unlikely to be a
E> problem in large networks, but it seems to me to be a problem.
Yeah, it's a problem all right.
~Mr. Bad
P.S. Glad to see we're talking in the same language now!
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