Peter Triantafillou wrote:
Centralized services (like google), even at internet scale, may be able to offer better *technical* properties over P2P solutions. But why should we (and can we) trust a single entity (organization/company/...) with the world's data?
You are talking about *trust* here. People using Google might sue them if they actually violate their privacy, e.g publishing data like AOL did in August. On the other hand, what can they do if some peers in a P2P network spread virus, trojans that could potentially take over their machine ? Sue the software writer ? On some other remarks, i believe that Tor and FreeNet only offer some degree of anonymity. This can be broken by traffic analysis or other advanced technique. And by the way, how to ensure unlinkability in a P2P network ? What stop a supernode (or neighbour node) from keeping track of our search and later correlating them ?
P2P technologies are thus the only available solution (at least for all who dont like big brothers)... In this context, the real question then is NOT how to make a P2P solution better than its centralized counterpart; but how to make it fast enough, reliable enough, available enough and affordable enough
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