On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 12:30:03 David Stainton wrote: > Your comment about leeching bandwidth is judgmental and incorrect. I > store very small files on our Tahoe-LAFS onion grid. I recently was at > the Tor developer meeting in Valencia, Spain and we (me and Leif Ryge) > explained to some of the core Tor developers how this Tahoe-LAFS onion > grid works... and none of them raised this concern.
Perhaps I did not express myself very well. I want to store several TB on Tahoe-LAFS nodes behind NATs. This is not a super-expensive high-tech exascale project; just a few Raspberry Pis with external hard drives, distributed around my friends' houses, total cost well under US$1000. Your onion grid may well be small, but if I try to use Tor as a NAT-piercing technology then it means using on the order of 100 TB of bandwidth on the Tor network (connections to a .onion server go through six intermediate nodes; multiply that by the redundancy setting and add a bit more to account for downloading the data again and you have a factor of 20+ times the data being stored). I think using 100 TB of volunteers' bandwidth counts as leeching.
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