Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure de

On Monday 11 July 2005 8:33 pm, Juiceman wrote:
> If you really feel the need to do something like this:
>  Why not just support blacklisting of CHK's that are known objectionable
> material. If the node comes across a request for one of these, it will pass
> it along but refuse to cache it thereby making people feel all warm and
> fuzzy about not helping the c.p. or whatever spread. Freesites could
> catalog and create a text file that lists known "immoral/illegal/unwanted"
> CHK's and visitor's to each of these "list" Freesites can chose to download
> these files every so often into the Freenet directory where the node will
> check for a changed file and enter the CHK's found in the file into the
> "don't cache" routing table. Users of each "list" Freesite could submit
> CHK's they have come across and they could be added to the list. Then
> communities can form around these sites based around different ideas of
> what is "acceptable" and they can all be mind numbingly uniform and bland
> "together" without affecting the rest of us thinking individuals. This
> could be configured on/off in the config file.
>  Of course even this route has many dangers:
>
>    - The fascist/communist/ideological dictatorship that forces its
>    citizen's to all use it's lists blocking free
>    speech/Christianity/Muslim/(insert your religion here)
>    - The Freenet Project could be forced to block all known
>    "illegal/copyrighted material" thus becoming a huge burden on the
> project to pay to hire people which it can't because it doesn't make any
> money off this product
>    - Freenet users could be forced to "make a reasonable effort" to
>    download the above CHK lists or face criminal charges for "distributing"
> the content in those files
>
> I am not a lawyer, I am just looking at it from a "what if" point of view a
> few years from now...
>  In my opinion, you shouldn't implement ANY kind of feature/tool that could
> be used to limit free speech WHATSOEVER because the slippery slope is the
> enemy of free speech everywhere.

I think there is something to be said for the idea of bundling the exploit 
code for the best attacks against the network with the network itself. 
However if we do this we could go one step further, and embed in the header 
of all the files we store an optional entry containing say 16 random bits. 
This would make creating large archives bandwidth prohibitive.
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