>>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <ian at hawk.freenetproject.org> writes:
>> How can you possibly know this, Ian? What makes you think this
>> is true at all?
IC> Because people are reporting that their datastores tend to
IC> have one or two nodes to which almost all references are
IC> pointing to.
See my explanation on chat.
IC> Only one reference to each node is permitted in the datastore.
>> You have really got to be joking. WHAT?
IC> This is even a viable attack, since a
IC> node could always set itself as the datasource on all
IC> messages, creating a positive feedback loop (more references
IC> in the datastore lead to still more references in the
IC> datastore).
And the attack would be... what? That the node is providing your node
with valid data? That's an -attack-? Where does the actually-doing-damage
part come in?
~Mr. Bad
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