Folks, I hear that FireChat had a rather unpleasant experience in Moscow lately, when Russian authorities (as opposed to Hong Kong ones) were smart enough to flood the network with junk during some recent protest actions. Anyone knows the details? FireChat seems to be proprietary, so there's not much info on its internal architecture, from what I'm able to see; but generally speaking, how are the mesh networks doing when DoS attacks are starting?
And if anyone from OpenGarden is around - was it something that really overloaded the network, or the issue was simply that there were no encrypted private channels, so all the junk was flooding the same message screen? What were the attack parameters, anyway? I remember we were discussing p2p mesh networks here in February of 2011, right after Egypt carrier blackout, so it is really nice to see someone really doing exactly what we were talking about - but I don't think active DoS attacks were one of our subjects back in 2011. Another interesting issue would be a possibility to place a third party overlay over the mesh network created by something like this FierChat thing (i.e. encrypted private channels, file exchange, etc) - but that, of course, is a separate story. Best wishes - S.Osokine. 19 Jan 2015. Confidentiality notice: This message may contain confidential information. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not that person, you should not use this message. We request that you notify us by replying to this message, and then delete all copies including any contained in your reply. Thank you. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
