Re: Drop Dynamic Querying - It only benefits Spammers these days

Hello!

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:54:54PM +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> From: "Elias Athanasopoulos" <[email protected]>
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:48:27AM +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> >> Well, I personnally don't find spam as a real problem, given the antispam
> >
> > It is; it can be used to cause a DDoS attack.
> 
> Huh???? DDoS attacks are first based on the specification of a specific target,
> and being able to limit the traffic so that it will reach this target from
> everywhere.

http://www.csd.uoc.gr/~elathan/publications/gdos-paper-final.pdf
 
> Suppressing dynamic querying will not allow you to avoid reaching the spamming
> hosts. So you will still get their fake hits. Without dynamic querying, you'll
> reach in fact more spamming nodes, meaning that you'll be overflowed by even
> more fake hits.
> 
> So this is clearly not the solution to eliminate spammers.

I am not arguing on how to fight spam in Gnutella; unfortunately I have no
clue on that, I am arguing that the 'spam' problem, or even better: the 
ability to inject fake QueryHits in the system, is a *real* and *serious* problem. 

Regards,
-- 
Elias Athanasopoulos
Distributed Computing Systems (DCS)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS/FORTH)
Heraklion, Crete

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