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On 25 May 2006, at 13:16, Michael Rogers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ian Clarke wrote: >> Don't forget, people are supposed to be able to trust their immediate >> peers not to do things like drop inserts... > > People are also supposed to be able to trust their immediate peers not > to flood the network. Unfortunately both these attacks have an impact > beyond the attacker's immediate peers. If someone's dropping inserts > then the whole network suffers, and if we give them an incentive to > drop > inserts (by giving them an incentive to prioritise requests) then we > could aggravate the problem. That is certainly true, however the effect of the attack is in inverse proportion to their culpability for trusting someone untrustworthy. I'm not saying its ok, but we need to remember that this isn't the same as people just being connected to strangers. Ian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEdj//QtgxRWSmsqwRAkJWAJ9VEJmLR0NFXbcuUX0vMw8GGBtWdgCfYK+x EX4J6pzPRVyBQTnXcR4l5Vc= =yV8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
