We can't prevent people from their own stupidity :)
No, but we can raise the barrier of entry-
For instance, on Windows, most people run as the Administrator all the
time... Linux/OS X requires that users use su or sudo before writing to
protected files.
I think freenet can have a similar behavior- By implementing a quick
HTTP auth on fproxy, it avoids the harvesting problem, as well as
avoiding node autoloaders like the one mentioned before.
It's also possible to auto-randomize the fproxy port, but I don't think
the inconvenience that causes is worth the benefit, when better
solutions exist.
Http auth, plus a warning advising people to /never/ give out their
username/password, should help. And if it doesn't... At least it raises
the barrier to entry.
And
according to Ian, that's not a goal we should try to achieve ;)
I would point out that people can add automatically references NOW,
trivially, by going through fproxy.
I have Ubernode.org set up to automatically add references to itself,
and it didn't take a whole lot of effort. (It's a neat experiment. Check
it out ;) http://ubernode.org )
I'm not sure what avoiding a FCP command to do the same adds, when a
one-line exec(curl blah blah) does the same thing, just in a slightly
more messy way.
-Colin
NextGen$
(Convinced too that the reference auto-adder is EVIL!)
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