On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Guess Who? <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you want to do is find people that you believe are trustworthy. So if > you just have a few friends that send files around, that is fine. Sooner or > later you will all have the same files. So you have to gather new friends. > So how do you do that? > > If you are like me you will look for people that appear trustworthy (they > have nice ratings as being reliable). So you'll try to develop a > relationship with them. At that point you are vulnerable. They can send you > files that are incomplete, corrupted or outright wrong. So you are going to > publish a nic against their rating. But they can create new pseudo friends > that claim they are reliable and over whelm your little nic. > > All your little scenario will do is convince you they aren't trustworthy, > and perhaps your close friends. But everyone else will not be any more > sure. It comes down to the fact that only when you start trading stuff do > you really have a clue if they are trustworthy. You might as well just > randomly pick a person and start the transfer. > > As "small worlds" theory has shown you only need a small amount of trusted connections (say a dozen) and as long as everyone else has about the same you'll have a million of trusted peers crowdsourced for you. The real question one should ask is how to create an interesting enough system that everyone joins and forms the peers? :::The problem isn't a technical one as much as a social one. :) mark pangaia.sf.net
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