Re: the plutocratic world of freenet
daniele <[email protected]>
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The most convicting truth about my error in considering freenet a plutocratic network was given to me by private mail, as follow: [...] > The key here is _distribution_ over > the wide geographic area, which is simple for "regular" users, but > requires a very costly and difficult to manage concerted effort on > behalf of any "organized" adversary. And: [...] >> Freenet has specific properties to combat this threat. For example, >> after the first request, content will get cached on the nodes "near" the >> attacker, and his subsequent auto-requests will have no effect on the >> network whatsoever. Of course, you can always harvest the network and >> overload nodes one by one - but this requires _yet_ more effort and time >> (and, since, is more expensive). >> >> To combat _this_ threat, Freenet is proposing a darknet approach, which >> will make Freenet difficult to harvest, as well as difficult to >> establish connections to new nodes (you'll have to subvert node operator >> in real life to make a connection to his node). So, an auto-requester will only spread it's content in few neighbour nodes. -- ----- it.scienza.chimica, 25/8/05: > che differenza c'è tra molarità, molalità e moralità? con le prime due puoi descrivere un politico. [dp] http://blog.daniele.homelinux.org _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe