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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."
...for those that don't wanna read the PDF:
Here.
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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'm sure theres even more complicated things you can do with P2P, such as organizing nodes for filesharing and so on.
P2P filesharing, what a great idea! I wonder when somebody's going to try to do that...
If you are using windows, it oftens appears that a PDF has hung the browser when it's actually the Adobe Reader sitting in the background with a dialog box asking if you want to upgrade your version. Try minimizing the browser window[s] and see if you can find a dialog like that.
-- former windows guy, just trying to be helpful
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?
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
In Northern Europe people can speak generally 3 languages fluently. The have good schools there. They generally have better goverments as well.
Did I say that ?
I meant to say that they are a bunch of liberal left-wing socialist radicals who get their english training in order to become terrorists.
Am I American again ?
Phew!
Nope, not really. Far more scientific papers are written in English than in any other language, because it's the language most scientists have in common (this is different from being the language spoken by the most people; more people speak Chinese than any other language, but relatively few people who aren't Chinese speak it).
100 years ago, scientific papers were commonly written in German.
200 years ago, they were commonly written in Latin.
Times change.
What you say is true, and is the perfect solution ... in the same sense that Communism is the perfect government (don't call Homeland Security).
Communism depends on every person contributing (essentially) equally and taking equally, and the system falls apart if one (or worse, several) individuals decide to take advantage of the community.
This is why Blizzard had to instigate centralized servers where all the games are run, and all Diablo characters were stored. People were hacking and HexEditing their characters too much to be trusted.
The trust ring would help, but, like you say, a mob of cheaters can bring the whole thing down by sufficiently fooling the community into believing the hack over the truth.
I mean, just look at P2P (or filesharing) today. When grabbing something off of Kazaa, music you're downloading could be pr0n, or a different song, or a 30 second sample that the RIAA put on to prevent the real one from being grabbed. However, from a centralized, controlled server (iTunes) you know what you're getting beforehand (essentially) cheat-free.
Of course, with true P2P everybody gets access to the product mostly free, whereas in the capitalistic model of iTunes, one entity has all the power and control, and hence will be profiting from all of this.
For example, this is in the introduction to the Freenet section:
Um, many people might disagree with that little gem.