On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:12 pm, John McCain wrote: > > > -Are they sure that freenet's bad behavior of late is not the result of > > > some sort of poisoning attack? > > > > On both networks? > > Why not?
What if the attack consisted of controlling a large number of nodes which inserted and requested a massive amount of garbage content? Wouldn't the artificial popularity of the data in question cause it to be distributed en masse to as many legitimate nodes as possible? Then our own nodes would be overloaded with requests for garbage data. This seems to be consistent with what we are experiencing. And if this were happening, making it happen on both networks would be trivial. Simply install different builds on a certain percentage of the controlled machines. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support
