Re: [freenet-devl] What replaces inform.php in 0.4 (if anything)?

[Tavin Cole]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:32:26AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > Anyway, if many many websites list a couple of node addresses, then it
> > will be easy for people to find one -- and it seems fairly likely that
> > once the process is clear, many many websites will do just that.
> > This is *good* :)
> 
> Again, putting words into his mouth, but Oskar's hypothesis seems to be
> that any node can be compromised given sufficient attention, and thus
> any node which Dr Evil is aware of (yes, Mr Evil now has a PhD), ie. any
> publicly advertised node, is inherently untrustworthy.  Do you agree
> with this?

Risk is always going to be a factor;  but if we have this one centralized
inform-style seed node, the risk is clearly unacceptable.  If there are
tens of thousands of seed nodes available all over the 'net, the risks
become acceptable because of the "safety in numbers" which Freenet is
so fond of invoking :)

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