On Sunday 03 September 2006 07:18, Dave Baker wrote: > I still don't see where the correlation between well-behaved nodes and > non-malicious ones came from.
I do not think we can ever know that a node is non-malicious. Even a good friend can turn cause you pain (consider divorce)... I think we can assume that most nodes a not malicious. Given this if we look for nodes that behave or respond abnormally and decide not to trust them we probably will at the very least aviod hacked freenets... I would say that new nodes are trusted - with just enough that other nodes will allow them to connect. If the new node does not behave, it quickly will lose trust and will not get integrated. On the other hand if it behaves the converse will happen. Ed
