Gordan Bobic:
> I suppose that given enough time, effort and network monitoring all
> over the internet, the requests could all eventualy be tracked back to the
> singular source server. This cannot be done as such for static cached
> documents as they will generally come from different servers.

Yeah. Frequent, predictable requests are dangerous.

> Performance, however, would be a more important issue, as far as I can
> see. Given a fast and well connected node, what would the latency be
> expected to be like? My perception is that the files seem to take a long
> time to be found (sometimes a high HTL value is required to get anywhere),
> but once they are located, they tend to come down reasonably quickly.

There isn't a clean way to send requests to the server (replies are
easy though).

> > and your web server could be DoSed with impunity (which is a grave
> > problem in any anonymous system).
> 
> What do you mean by "impunity"?

  impunity
       n : exemption from punishment or loss

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