I believe that any service that can be provided in a traditional client-server model can be provided in a p2p model.
But even some p2p solutions will require authentication; just think about reading your email - you will need to provide an identity. Now that will tie you to an IP address, though with Tor you can mask the original. Chuck Wegrzyn Tien Tuan Anh Dinh wrote: > > Hi, > Lets not debate about information freedom for now (i wont be surprised > if we end up debating about God and origin of everything). > > I want to bring up the privacy/anonymity issue in the traditional > client/server model. For google search, some have put up websites to > help users anonymize their search (Scroogle for example). This for me > did not completely solve the problem, because we still have to trust > those providers, but it does somehow relieve users from worrying about > their privacies being violated. Another solution would be Tor. > Now what about Google services such as GMail, Groups or FGroogle ? They > apparantly keep track of whatever you're doing once you've logged in. > Can i say there is absolutely NO way to gain some degree of privacy or > anonymity while using such services ? > The reason i want some discussion about it is that P2P hasn't shown any > potential of providing above services (Gmail for example) and we are > still very much dependant on those. Am i being perfectionist here ? Is > the reason simply that P2P can't do everything ? > > Regards, > Anh > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
