While debugging FreeWeb, I wrote a test prog that inserts a random number of random length files each containing random data.
>From this, a major Freenet vulnerability occurred to me. Freenet dev probably discussed this back at the time of the ark (please excuse me if so), but in case no, here goes. What defense does Freenet have against orchestrated DOS attack? I mean, a total arms race situation. Army of spammers versus Freenet. Anyone can write a prog to insert millions of files into Freenet, through FNP, via nodes harvested from inform.php. This would stop most or all good data from being visible, and keep everyone's datastore full of spam. Imagine a thousand or so spamming nodes, each hitting inform.php, and intermittently FNP'ing terabytes a day of bulk spam to discovered nodes! We'd have a Freenet full of white noise :( This is something the Chinese government would definitely stoop to. Ideas for defenses anyone? Cheers David _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
