Re: the plutocratic world of freenet

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:38:15PM -0400, Juiceman wrote:
> 
> Yes and (mostly) no.  Having many nodes/servers/clusters and pushing
> and pulling the data you want will have a small effect on the network,
> but generally speaking the more popular the requested data is, the
> more places it resides.  Thus if you have 10 nodes/servers/clusters
> pushing and pulling the content you want, but 100's of other people
> are requesting different content, the more requested content would
> win.
> 
> Also please note that content would be divided across the network
> based on hash of said content and routing done by the network.  So to
> replace someone else's content on a node you would also need to find
> content with a very close hash to that of the other person's content
> (not entirely easy)  AND make sure to request it more than the other
> content AND control a majority of the routes for that data hash.  Even
> then after expending great effort and resources you probably wont
> entirely succeed...

No, you'd just flood the whole network with random data. But this only
works if you have high bandwidth to the whole network - which is not the
case on a darknet.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
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