On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote:
> Scott Young:
> > Pinging the data would be as security-vunerable as requesting the
> > data itself.
>
> NO NO NO! It is _much_worse_ because it circumvents our ideal
> bargain: "you can learn about the data, but I'll mirror it to 7
> nodes in the process." I can gather all sorts of statistics by
> sending pings in various ways.

What if ping transforms into a data request with a certain probability each 
hop?  This would mirror the data and make it so the pinging node does not 
have to download it.

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