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Distributed Computing for Tracking Net Problems?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-effective-would-it-be dept.

Osrin asks: "A software firewall package that came with a recent computer purchase is using a site called MyNetWatchman to track, catalog and escalate firewall incidents back to ISPs. I was wondering what Slashdot readers think of this type of solution and which other Internet problems it would lend itself to helping resolve?"

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  1. Too much greed... by wal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The internet is too saturated with greed to allow any kind of distibuted application viable on the internet.

    As soon as any type of app becomes widely used enough to make it worth while it is either bought up and ruined by any number of corporations or sued and shutdown for some kind of obscure copyright violation in order to allow for a bigger and better solution from the copyright holder which will inturn be so ridden with spyware that it will never get used.

    Not that I am a pessimist or anything...