On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:38:17AM -0800, Mr . Bad wrote:
>
<snip> discussion about node buddy lists
>
> Let me also point out that most underground organizations work this
> way, too. My drug dealer, Jerry, for example, doesn't accept pager
> calls from just ANYBODY. He only takes calls from people he knows or
> who have been introduced to him.
>
> And when Jerry gives me a nice sweet baggy of cocaine, he doesn't tell
> me, "Oh, by the way, this came from a 35-ton shipment owned by Big
> Sonny D'Amato of Long Island. If you need some more, you should call
> Big Sonny directly. Here's his number."
>
> We pretty much know not to ask questions about where stuff comes from
> and where it's supposed to go to. It'd be dangerous for both of us. I
> don't ask where his stuff comes from, or who else he's selling to, and
> he doesn't ask where I got the money to buy from him, or what I'm
> going to do with the shit once I've got it. And that's the way Jerry
> deals with the guy he buys drugs from. And the way *THAT* guy deals
> with the fellow up the supply chain from him.
>
> Surprisingly, we're able to run one of the world's largest businesses
> this way. It's amazingly scalable, and nobody needs to have "public"
> nodes to make it work. Nobody's suggested yet that the only way to
> keep from going to jail or getting killed is if we encourage lots of
> other people to buy and sell drugs out in the open. We've found other
> ways to keep from going to jail or getting killed.
>
> Strange, that.
Ingenious!
How could we, for so long, have ignored our greatest resource in spreading
Freenet across the globe: our drug buddies? It solves the problem of
how new node operators can become trusted by other nodes! This will
allow us to build a huge global network on exactly the same flow lines
as our narcotics trafficking, with node clusters and gateways in place.
Those who traffick larger quantities will naturally be able to afford
better PCs and more bandwidth, so we know it will scale. And of course,
if your dealer(s) gets busted, all you have to do is find more and you've
got your gateway node back.
Now, shadow nodes?? That's like running up to some guy you heard smokes
dope and giving him the phone number of this guy you heard sells coke,
and asking him to set it up for you. Crazy.
Do you think Freenet content would become distributed along lines of drug
tastes? Like, to make sure you have a good chance of finding any
requested key, you should make sure you regularly do a variety of
different drugs?
--
// Tavin Cole
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