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Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet
RobertDHaskins writes "A very interesting series of papers from Helsinki University of Technology on the topics of P2P and spam. Written by PhD students they are a little long, but some very good coverage of the state of the art."
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- Follow the money
- Block networks who let spammers send traffic on them, no matter if it's SMTP, DNS, FTP or HTTP
Once a few big guys find themselves turned into intranets, they'll start paying attention.I don't have time to read a document hundreds of pages long, especially not one that's packed with information: I need a quick summary.
Could someone post a one line summary? For example,
Linux good; Microsoft bad; SCO evil; RMS god.
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From the paper: "The idea was to learn about the disruptive and also annoying phenomena that have become very commonplace over the past couple of years in the internet: namely, the Peer-to-Peer traffic and applications and the unsolicited and unwanted e-mail or Spam."
I think bundling p2p and spam is either totally missing the point, or attempting to influence the opinions of people who don't know better. The users of p2p want what they get for the most part (maybe not viruses and fakes, but the author seems to be targeting p2p due to the copyrighted content).
Its true that a bunch of computers can simulate a server for a game.
If you have 6 computers transfering information to each of them, you can create almost the same environment that 6 computers feeding off a server is.
If you place the anti-cheat code on every computer, you form a community to check against cheats.
If you also store every character's information on every computer, then you can watch for hacks there too.
Given its extrodinarily complicated, and fails to mob rule(conspiracy of hackers to overwhelm the system)... Its something that could be done.
I'm sure theres even more complicated things you can do with P2P, such as organizing nodes for filesharing and so on.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it curious that these papers from a Finn university are in english?
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The more keywords in the file name the lesser chance it will contain anything that makes sense.
In EDonkey it's worth looking at other file names of given share, they often offer some insight. You grab ROTK, check and see 3 other names: FOTR-Extended-Edition, and you may be sure it was some moron who can't tell "1" apart from "3" who renamed it and some more morons download it without checking.
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I think it's worth mentioning this article talks about P2P, then about SPAM.
While it doesn't imply they are somehow related in their functions, the common nature of these two is the bandwidth consumption, which as stated by the author, can be annoying and disruptive.
Can we get the RIAA to shut these guys down?
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Why isn't there a service where you can get full-speed from behind a firewall without portmapping? College students everywhere would rejoice. When I'm home I port forward and get the full pipe, but when I'm at college the firewall keeps my download speeds nice and slow. I know this because every once and a while I'll get lucky and some BT seed will connect and start sending me 80kb/s for about five minutes and stop. They made Supernodes to make the network more scalable and to make it work with firewalls. Can they make it work at full speed with firewalls?
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The Finns have noticed that no-one understands Finnish, so they've become extremely good at putting things in more popular languages. For example you can get the news in Latin courtesy of Finnish Radio (today's headline: Kerry candidatus democratarum.)
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Much of the problems of the internet concern the lack of uniformity in law among the various nations of the world. Having wide open international routing acts as a "free pass" for information that would otherwise violate national laws. Theres no reason that all of a country's communications with other nations should not pass through a national routing infrastructure.
Countries with "information treaties" could elect to apply routing table entries to permit some degree of free information exchange without the overhead of packet approval beyond basic encryption detection.
Once each country nationalizes its router infrastructure, these installations will act as the "customs" of the internet. As in physical customs, items crossing borders need to be inspected to prevent the import/export of contraband and other harmful stuff. As there is no way to perform an inspection of information in encrypted content, investigations should immediately commence upon the discovery of encrypted content. Obviously, encrypted content needs to be detected, so much work will need to be invested into determining file type and validity. Any obfuscated content will have its source and destination id's logged and be queued for investigation.
As mentioned above, content will need to be inspected to prohibit transport of contraband information. This will obviously create a significant computational workload on the national router infrastructure, so a user needs to have a preapproved electronic "visa" that will authenticate his session and packets that will be presented to the national routers for inspection. To even have your packets reach the routers, you'll need an electronic visa, consider this an application to do international commerce.
For local / interstate traffic, a simple tag on each packet containing for instance the SSN of the logged in user should suffice for tracking and billing purposes for offsetting the overhead of packet / content inspection and filtering.
Obviously many technical "geek" types have forseen the day when governments would want to control what information traverses the international networks, and have invented catchy phrases like "the internet routes around censorship", and this implies that underground efforts would produce covert means of international information transfer. If the network interfaces can be sealed, nonhackable units operated by licensed ISPs, much of the work can be done here and packets leaving the home or business will actually be encapsulated in "shipping packets" with routing information concealed from the user. Think of it as a national VPN with the network visible to the user determined by security rating, usage history, government determined "trustability" factor and the previously mentioned virtual visa.
These sealed "network interfaces" would be virtually unhackable, for instance, when is the last time you whipped up a custom version of a pentium chip in your garage?
Now, if there is no routing function available to the users of the internet, any legitimate blocking of objectionable information can't be "routed" around. The internet will quicky settle into a nicely regulated thoroughfare for the legal and ethical transfer of information, instead of the spam-infested criminal haven it is now.
For example, this is in the introduction to the Freenet section:
Um, many people might disagree with that little gem.I've *never* been lured into sending someone else an e-mail. The only way I could imagine someone doing it is either (a) sending me an e-mail first, or (b) setting up a website with a "click here to e-mail me about ..." In case (a), if someone charged me, I would turn around and charge them for the original e-mail, and we would be even. Listservs could work on a similar basis: a small, one-stamp's-worth registration fee that is forfeited if you ever charge them.
In case (b), people would quickly learn not to click on links that they don't trust, which is a desirable outcome.
Malicious or vengeful charging is also a non-issue. Simply give each "charge" (I prefer to call it a "reusable stamp") a time limit (perhaps one day, or three); then, the amount of damage that any one person can do to another is small and easily caught. Once bitten, twice shy: if you charge me, then I won't e-mail you anymore, which is the desired outcome.
Enforcement is a harder problem. To do this, a third party would have to be trusted to hold small amounts of money from everyone (and larger amounts of money for listservs), and mail would have to be routed through that person. I forsee that putting a serious crimp into e-mail bandwidth. Also, the more centralized the money-holding system, the more tempting it will be for electronic thieves.
Notwithstanding, I think it is very much worth trying to solve this last problem. At this point, there are only two live options for dealing with Spam: either ICAAN and e-mail users decide to self-regulate, or else national governments will step in and regulate for us. Do you want a government to decide what is spam and what isn't?
Out of the self-regulatory options, I like the reusable stamps the best for three reasons:
(1) It gives the end-user the decision about what is spam
(2) Unlike filters, it places the cost of spamming on the sender instead of the receiver
(3) Also unlike filters, it results in reduced levels of spam being sent instead of increased levels of gibberish-coated spam being sent.
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The professor is clearly biased (or purposely acting biased) against P2P, lumping it together with spam as "parasitic and threaten[ing of] the purpose the Internet was designed for". How he figures sending files to one another is a subversion of the Internet's purpose, I dunno.
But the students' papers are all about how effective and efficient the various P2P architectures out there are and how they might be improved. Heh. Bless you, students.
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I'm using Cloudmark's Spamnet, which is essentially what they seem to be talking about (although I didn't read all 109 pages). Seems to work well enough. It tosses about 105 spam a day for me and I have about one or two slip through that I myself block.
(Argh, the cat got my tongue!)
I didn't think this would work originally, but this method sounds good!