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

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:52:00AM +0200, Rainer Kupke wrote:
> > Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > [voting against nodes that insert objectionable content]
> > 
> > After a night of sleep I came up with two strategies to defeat your
> > idea:
> > 
> > First strategy:
> > 1. run several small nodes and never use them to insert stuff. These
> > nodes are "good citizerns".
> 
> This is perfectly valid. You can run a node.
> > 
> > 2. Create a new node N
> > 
> > 3. Use N to insert content
> > 
> > 4. Delete N before reprimands hit.
> 
> This is quite possible, however I don't see how you are going to be able
> to repeat it, due to the nature of a darknet. Also it might hurt the
> people you connected through.

I assume that the inserting node gets more blame than the surrounding
nodes and that blame does not stick around forever. Maybe for a very
long time, but definitely not forever. 

So I can surround my "inserter" with one (as above) or more layers of
nodes which act as "blame absorbers".

When I insert evil stuff my "inserter" will be blamed for it. The nodes
next to it will get some fraction of the blame, but definitely less.
the nodes on the outer layer will get nearly no blame. 

Before the nodes on my outer layer get blamed for talking to evil nodes
I shutdown the core of my little "evilnet" and replace it with new
nodes.
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