At 03:25 PM 3/30/02 +0000, Adam Back wrote: >On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:20:18PM +0100, Eugene Leitl wrote: >> Yes, probabilistic headless node discovery vs. a centralist approach.
> >I never really found discovering a currently active node on the >network a problem even with original gnutella client. Yes, in the current (lax) climate... but we're considering a hostile future. >google seemed to reliably give you a host cache file with at least >some remaining online nodes. Google, being a public, fixed asset, is manipulable. The $cientologist/DMCA attack is a recent example.
