On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:43:29PM -0700, coderman wrote:
> This data would appear popular, and would propagate through caches, and if
> the caches were
> full, would force existing data that did not appear popular out of the cache.
>
> Over time, lets say a few days, and 500 of these 10M files later, it would
> appear to me
> that a well written and connected client of this type could force a large
> amount of
> content out of Freenet and replace it with this bogus data.
Yeah. A flooder first harvests a bunch of node identities by making lots
of requests for common keys. Then he loops over this procedure:
1. Insert random data.
2. Request that key from random nodes until it is mirrored so
much that further requests aren't very productive. Hang up when
the data starts streaming in, and let Freenet do the flooding
itself.
He can move his data around with very little effort.
--
"Is our system--was it invented by scientists?"
"No. If scientists had invented it, they'd have tried it out first on hamsters."
Mark Roberts | mjr at statesmean.com
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