Hmmm so you get points for sending files to your friends and vice-versa. I wonder how long this will take until it's compromised?
Ex1: Let's say I get this "Trusted" system goin' and start gettting these little files on my computer. Theoretically, if I knew the addresses of the hosts that were participating in this project and shared all my files with them, and vice-versa in a never-ending cycle, so I'm downloading these files from them and them from me, we could rack up an infinite number of points as the files come out. So thereby getting freebies for transferring bogus info files.
Ex2: What about compromising the content of the content protected files? As if there would be no possible way of doing that. Once these files are compromised, what makes the industry think that they won't be shared afterwards. I'd be surprised if their system lasts a year without anyone finding a workaround or a security hole in their processes.
Ex3: Worse case scenario, how long till someone compromises the content distribution server to infect the files with some type of virus? I mean that now that they centralized the distribution system, what makes you think that someone won't hack the server in order to infect files so that any other computer who participates in this new system won't get attacked and then target others. Buyer beware.
I hope that the consortium has taken all this into consideration before pulling on the curtain for their grand overture. I sense a phantom lurking in the shadows.
I'm surprised at the amount of time spent on ways to cause trouble. I mean that unlike most slashdot users, computers are still a new thing for many people around the world, and unlike way back when...I started using computers and discovering the net, e-mail was a new and great thing. Of course, I wasn't exposed to it in the same time frame as the new people discovering e-mail for the first time.
Unfortunately, I think that spammers need a serious lessons thought to them. Unlike using a bat which can be deadly and more or less give you a certain sense of immediate satisfaction, these people should suffer the same type of disatisfaction with a new product. Kinda like selling them some new service, but then having all the programers tamper into their software in order to cause them some undo frustration.
Of course by writing this I'm asking for trouble, but again unfortunately, spammers being so courageous of nature, never show their faces. Cuz to be honets, I've already got my practice swings in, so if a spammer would like to get in touch on a face to face basis, sign me up. I'll be first in line (with my handy wonderbat)
Sincerely,
Crapflinger
Slashdot Mirror
Ex1: Let's say I get this "Trusted" system goin' and start gettting these little files on my computer. Theoretically, if I knew the addresses of the hosts that were participating in this project and shared all my files with them, and vice-versa in a never-ending cycle, so I'm downloading these files from them and them from me, we could rack up an infinite number of points as the files come out. So thereby getting freebies for transferring bogus info files.
Ex2: What about compromising the content of the content protected files? As if there would be no possible way of doing that. Once these files are compromised, what makes the industry think that they won't be shared afterwards. I'd be surprised if their system lasts a year without anyone finding a workaround or a security hole in their processes.
Ex3: Worse case scenario, how long till someone compromises the content distribution server to infect the files with some type of virus? I mean that now that they centralized the distribution system, what makes you think that someone won't hack the server in order to infect files so that any other computer who participates in this new system won't get attacked and then target others. Buyer beware.
I hope that the consortium has taken all this into consideration before pulling on the curtain for their grand overture. I sense a phantom lurking in the shadows.
Crapflinger
I'm surprised at the amount of time spent on ways to cause trouble. I mean that unlike most slashdot users, computers are still a new thing for many people around the world, and unlike way back when...I started using computers and discovering the net, e-mail was a new and great thing. Of course, I wasn't exposed to it in the same time frame as the new people discovering e-mail for the first time. Unfortunately, I think that spammers need a serious lessons thought to them. Unlike using a bat which can be deadly and more or less give you a certain sense of immediate satisfaction, these people should suffer the same type of disatisfaction with a new product. Kinda like selling them some new service, but then having all the programers tamper into their software in order to cause them some undo frustration. Of course by writing this I'm asking for trouble, but again unfortunately, spammers being so courageous of nature, never show their faces. Cuz to be honets, I've already got my practice swings in, so if a spammer would like to get in touch on a face to face basis, sign me up. I'll be first in line (with my handy wonderbat) Sincerely, Crapflinger