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.
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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
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