On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Martin Stone Davis wrote: > Toad wrote: > > >But the key probing > >attack still remains, and it's a question of how much we care about the > >ability for a node to effectively ask your node whether it has a given > >key in its store - how much of a vulnerability is that? > > Indeed: how much? My contention is that when going against the AAIR or > the RIAA, it's a big vulnerability.
Well, it's a legal question as much as a technical question. Will you get into trouble because the file was there, irrespective of whether it was you that downloaded it? If so, you will probably get into trouble even if they caused it to be there, and Freenet will eventually be found to be illegal. > > >there may or may not be the possibility that there is a > >node with a degenerate routing table routing all its requests to your > >node which actually asked for it, that is one possible defence. > > Hmm, that is tempting. But I'm can't be truly comfortable with that > defense: it doesn't pass the laugh test. A good plaintiff attorney > could probably convince a jury that the chances of that happening are > too remote to consider. The only way I can see this working would be to > intentionally code freenet such that some nodes do indeed route all > requests to one other node. Hopefully we can find a more elegant > solution than that. Right. It may be a defence in beyond reasonable doubt... or it may not. It certainly isn't against a civil suit. So we need better defences - which we need anyway, not all users of freenet are in nice cosy western "democracies" with a legal concept of free speech, however distorted. > > -Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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