Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure democratic censorship

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:03:08PM +0200, Rainer Kupke wrote:
> Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > There is an argument that unpopular content will fall out of the current
> > Freenet; it won't if the original insertor keeps on pushing it back in.
> 
> What if you simply make it more difficult to push stuff back in?
> 
> When a node drops data have it remember the hash for a *long* time. If
> somebody tries to reinsert the data just act as if the insertion was
> successfull and ignore it.

What if they just insert it locally on their own node and then propagate
it by requests? We can't interfere with requests propagating data
without dire consequences, and only dealing with inserts would be
impotent.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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