[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
roblem. If your captchas are good, that means they are more > likely to be human. I work from an assumption that captchas are > marginally effective at best. If you think I am mistaken in that, > please explain why. From that assumption, I conclude that we need a > system that is reasonably effective against a spammer who can solve > significant numbers of captchas, but still is capable of making use of > the information that solving a captcha does provide. You cannot. Whatever you use as entry barrier, if someone is able to break it with some automatic way or with other massive attack, your are lost in one way or another. The already existing community may still work and stay, but new users wont be able to join. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/016047cf/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
The question is this: Will it prevent enough, so almost all spam or will the amount of spam force new (and old) users to leave like it happened and happens with frost and the alice bot? -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/5825a772/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
nk he is mistaken. You still require people to mark identities as trusted to get them visible and have them stay visible to others. This wont happen, so people will loose their Captcha-Trust and will have to solve more captchas. Annoying for everyone, and most annoying for the lazy majority. > Fundamentally, it's a question of whether you believe CAPTCHAs work. > I don't. If you start with an assumption that CAPTCHAs are a minor > hindrance at most, then if you require that everyone sees messages > sent by identities that have only solved CAPTCHAs and not gained > manual trust, then you've made it a design criteria to permit > unlimited amounts of spam. (That's bad.) If you believe CAPTCHAs > work, then things are a bit easier... but I think the balance of the > evidence is against that belief. Captchas may not be the ultimative solution. But they are one way to let people in while prooving to be humans. And you will need this limit (human proove), so you will always need some sort of captcha or a real friends trust network. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/31a3fbf3/attachment.pgp>

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
-signature Size: 315 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/36ce9a3c/attachment.pgp>

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday, 27. May 2009 19:53:01 Evan Daniel wrote: > I have only very rarely had any difficulty determining whether a > message was spam or not. Why would this be any different? > > Of course Advogato gives you the same ability, that is the entire > point. The precise algorithm is different,

[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau >> wrote: A small number could still be rather large. ?Having thousands see it ought to suffice. ?For the current network, I see no reason not to have the

Re: [freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Tuesday, 26. May 2009 19:16:14 Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 17:30:00 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > On Sunday, 24. May 2009 16:52:00 xor wrote: > > > Full ACK. Friends page HAS to be separate to encourage users to > > > establish darknet connections. Maybe we should even wri

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau >> wrote: >>> Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect. ?I am certain there will be some amount of spam gettin

[freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Cl?ment wrote: >>> The ?Search Freenet? field and bookmarks are definitly a good thing. >>> However, why do we have : >>> ?Fetch a key? : we don't want to fetch a key, we want to browse Freenet. >>> >> Fetching a key is a CORE functionality, it is like the address bar in an >> internet bro

[freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> A small number could still be rather large. ?Having thousands see it >> ought to suffice. ?For the current network, I see no reason not to >> have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it. > > If your small number is that bi

[freenet-dev] Freetalk/WoT: "Click here in case of flood attack"

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Raw idea, needs lots of refining: Make the default minimum trust to zero and add a panic button that would raise it, automatically marking as 'untrusted' all the ID's that haven't been manually marked as 'trusted'. (where's the elephant in the room that I always miss?)

[freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> That is fundamentally a hard problem. >> - Advogato is not perfect. ?I am certain there will be some amount of >> spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. >> - With Advogato, the amount of spam possib

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: A small number could still be rather large.  Having thousands see it ought to suffice.  For the current network, I see no reason not to have the (de

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> A small number could still be rather large. Having thousands see it >>> ought to suffice. For the current network, I see no reason not to >>> have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it. >> If you

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> Evan Daniel schrieb: That is fundamentally a hard problem. - Advogato is not perfect.  I am certain there will be some amount of spam getting th

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> Evan Daniel schrieb: >>> That is fundamentally a hard problem. >>> - Advogato is not perfect. I am certain there will be some amount of >>> spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. >>> - With Advogat

[freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
he problem then is that this is SVN > > and thus vulnerable to MITMs. GWT is vast, it is not practical to review > > the source even for the two jars we would be using (gwt-dev-linux.jar and > > gwt-user.jar, total approx 15MB compiled code). -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/99ff08e4/attachment.pgp>

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> A small number could still be rather large.  Having thousands see it >> ought to suffice.  For the current network, I see no reason not to >> have the (default) limits such that basically everyone sees it. > > If your small number is that bi

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Evan Daniel
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Evan Daniel schrieb: >> That is fundamentally a hard problem. >> - Advogato is not perfect.  I am certain there will be some amount of >> spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. >> - With Advogato, the amount of spam possib

Re: [freenet-dev] Why WoTs won't work....

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM, xor wrote: >> On Friday 22 May 2009 16:39:06 Evan Daniel wrote: >>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Matthew Toseland >>> >>> wrote: On Friday 22 May 2009 08:17:55 bbac...@googlemail.com wrote: > Is'nt his point that the users just

Re: [freenet-dev] Question about an important design decision of the WoT plugin

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Sachau
Evan Daniel schrieb: > That is fundamentally a hard problem. > - Advogato is not perfect. I am certain there will be some amount of > spam getting through; hopefully it will be a small amount. > - With Advogato, the amount of spam possible is well defined. With > FMS and WoT it is not. Neither o

[freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Cheng
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Saturday 23 May 2009 21:20:46 Florent Daigni?re wrote: >> * Matthew Toseland [2009-05-23 20:43:56]: >> >> > sashee is working on making the web interface more dynamic. Google Web >> > Toolkit will be used to translate some java code i

Re: [freenet-dev] Why current ui may be improved, and proposed improvements

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Clément wrote: >>> The “Search Freenet” field and bookmarks are definitly a good thing. >>> However, why do we have : >>> “Fetch a key” : we don't want to fetch a key, we want to browse Freenet. >>> >> Fetching a key is a CORE functionality, it is like the address bar in an >> internet bro

[freenet-dev] Freetalk/WoT: "Click here in case of flood attack"

2009-05-27 Thread Luke771
Raw idea, needs lots of refining: Make the default minimum trust to zero and add a panic button that would raise it, automatically marking as 'untrusted' all the ID's that haven't been manually marked as 'trusted'. (where's the elephant in the room that I always miss?) __

Re: [freenet-dev] Where to put GWT?

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 01:16:53 Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > wrote: > > On Saturday 23 May 2009 21:20:46 Florent Daignière wrote: > >> * Matthew Toseland [2009-05-23 20:43:56]: > >> > >> > sashee is working on making the web interface more dynamic. G

[freenet-dev] The installer is NOT signed

2009-05-27 Thread xor
important right now. -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090527/292b147f/attachment.pgp>