>>>>> "SR" == Stefan Reich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SR> The point is... if you execute code on a Freenet node you got
SR> from someplace you-don't-know-where, it can do all kinds of
SR> weird things to your system. All I can say is that I wouldn't
SR> want to do that to my system.
Well, I think the obviously right thing to do there would be to make
some kind of sandbox, a la SecurityManager (in Java), or Safe:: in
Perl, or whatever the equivalent is in Python. Not that any sandbox is
ever 100% safe, but it's a lot better than having some code to "rm -Rf
/" your system.
It also seems like the application of this concept (distributed
processing) would be good for things like Seti@Home or RC5 cracking,
but bad for things like running a Web server. One suggested idea --
distributed key verification, or distributed indexing -- would be
really useful for Freenet.
Anyways, this whole thing seems like a good application of Freenet,
but not a good part of the Freenet node code.
~Mr. Bad
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