On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 7:49 AM other.arkitech <other.arkit...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Saturday, June 6, 2020 11:38 AM, Karl <gmk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 7:18 AM other.arkitech <other.arkit...@protonmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Saturday, June 6, 2020 10:17 AM, Karl <gmk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 7:29 PM other.arkitech < >> other.arkit...@protonmail.com> wrote: >> >>> > so your system doesn't have a bloated chain, which is nice. The >>> 'consensus' is handled by voting...based one IP address one vote. But how >>> robust is relying on IP addresses at the end of the day? >>> > >>> >>> IPv4 provides unique features no other protocol has. address space is >>> saturated (scarce) and addresses are not cheap. It is a a nice tool for >>> Sybil control >>> >> >> OA, when you say this people start disregarding what you say because it >> is false. >> >> Any software developer can get thousands of IP addresses by altering a >> piece of pirated software to include something new of their own design and >> sharing it in a venue where it hasn't been shared on before. There are >> many many other ways and people _think_ of them, _use_ them, are _observed_ >> using them, and things spread and grow. >> >> >> what? any developer geting thousands of public IPv4 addresses by >> modifying software? >> Nop. That's not true. >> (Or I haven't understood well what you say) >> > > People go to places on the internet to download things. Others can upload > things to those places to download. You can upload something that lies > about what it is doing, and gives you use of the ip address of the > downloader's computer when run. Do you understand? > > It sounds like this is surprising to you? > > > so you refer to computers running malware, that case is contemplated in > the design as an 'evil node' > it sounds like you haven't addressed a sybil attack from massively distributed malware, which is fine nobody can cover everything. not sure where the design lives.
