On 7/19/2012 10:22 PM, Mark Adam wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Guess Who? <[email protected]
<mailto:[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. :)
Exactly what I was trying to get to - there is no way to make this
system completely automation based. It would be too easy to hack.
mark
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