On 29 Mar 2002 at 12:25, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > How *do* you stop hostile entities from finding your network? How do > you > admit benign users without accepting spies? Passwords and the like > offer small > obstacles to spies and prevent network deployment. Yes, you can have > the > equivalent of invisible 'private clubs' but how do you open a general > gallery to the public > without admitting spies who report that you're reading copyrighted poems > without paying > the author? I don't see how crypto for authentication, > confidentiality, or stego for concealment > can help. > Techology doesn't know morality. There's no way to make service that's available to the general public but not to spooks, that's for certain. Maybe you can find some way to issue non-forgeable, unstealable, rubber-hose-proof "I am not a spook" credentials. But then holders of such credentials would no longer be the general public. > All the RIAA has to do is get the congresshits to pass a few laws making > Freenet & *tella list sites illegal, > ISP's responsible, and publicly-accessable P2P is toast.
I don't think they can do that. OTOH, I think they can go after individuals "sharing" copyrighted stuff on their machines. I kind of expect them to sue some random schmuck in order to "make an example" of him, I'm kind of surprised it hasn't happened already. >Random > probing and forged-source encrypted UDP > packets seem like a good place to start... when the nightmare of the > RIAA shredding the 1st > and 4th becomes the present. > But this won't solve the problem. Any technique that would allow a member of the general public to find a gnutella server (or whatever) could also be used by and LEO or a RIAA lawyer or whatever. > Thanks > > George
