Re: [Freenet-dev] Don't Talk To Strangers

[Scott G. Miller]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:48:42PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
> 
> > In that case, they would eventualy find the gateway node,
> > shut it down, at which point everyone in that cluster is screwed.
> 
> Better for the gateway to be shut down than all the nodes in the clusters,
> don't you think? You can find another gateway, but if you're shut down
> then it's over.
You just keep missing this point.  If you shut down the gateway actively
(i.e. you bang on the guys door and steal his computer) then the attacker
gets to find everyone else and take them down too.  Moreso than general
Freenet, since he gets all the participants in the cluster, not just n
participants in Freenet that are unrelated.

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