----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Freenet-dev] Don't Talk To Strangers
>
> > You just keep missing this point. If you shut down the gateway actively
> > (i.e. you bang on the guys door and steal his computer) then the
attacker
> > gets to find everyone else and take them down too. Moreso than general
> > Freenet, since he gets all the participants in the cluster, not just n
> > participants in Freenet that are unrelated.
>
> Getting a list of cluster nodes is exactly as bad as getting a list of
> public nodes when the attacker's goal is to shut down Freenet nodes.
No, because now they've got you all in one hit, whereas not being in a
cluster means you are more spread out and it will be much more expensive to
track you all down.
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