Matt Leslie wrote:
Can you really say that google is pure client/server just because we access it through a web browser? The server side implementation may well be using peer to peer techniques, although I personally could not confirm whether or not it does.
The fact that Google architecture is distributed, but still operating in client-server model from an user perspective gets me think of another security problem with P2P (actually this is suggested by my supervisor). Imagine you are communicating with some other peers in an arbitrary P2P network. How can you be sure that you are actually talking with independent peers, but not some of many computers that are mysteriously controlled by some big guys ? Imagine one rich guy named G (not for google :)) has load of machines and he lets them join a P2P network, but these machines would secretly talks with each other to store information of their incoming connection into some database and later correlate them.
Any comments ? Perhaps there're already solutions for the problem above. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
