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

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:00:25PM +0200, Rainer Kupke wrote:
> Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > How long would it take for the community to identify the outer layer of
> > > "evilnet"?
> > > Even a single person should be able to protect the "inserter" with 4-6
> > > layers of "blame absorbers".
> > 
> > It would be obvious that every single evil insert has gone through that
> > person's node.
> 
> One of that person's nodes. And nobody would know that the nodes belong
> to the same person.

Oh, they would. Because the only way to get onto a network is to connect
to people who know you. This means you have a severely limited number of
connections to the rest of the network. This is a property of any
darknet.
> 
> > Because he has one node that connects to the rest of the network.
> 
> After I establish my first node on a darknet I can create a new node and
> have it connect to my first node. If the net is somewhat popular I
> should be able to find people who want to join. I give them the address
> of my new node. Sooner or later some of the newbies will make
> connections to other nodes. Now my new node is established on the
> network and I can start establishing the next one.

You'll be severely limited nonetheless.
> 
> Once I have a few established nodes I cut the connections between them
> and use them to form the outer layer of my "evilnet".
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
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