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Why do I have to fetch jQuery from fricking California when it's sitting on my girlfriend's phone in the other room? Just for one? Because, if you have the ab
by Semiapies 9y ago
Why do I have to fetch jQuery from fricking California when it's sitting on my girlfriend's phone in the other room?
Just for one? Because, if you have the ability to do that, your girlfriend's phone has the ability to detect whether anybody nearby is accessing any arbitrary file or page. It just has to host a copy of that page and see whether anyone pulls it.
- noam87 9y agoI don't know the internals of IPFS DHT implementation, but the whitepaper mentions Kadmelia and Coral. Coral tries to optimize for ping latency (you're not literally fetching from nearest geographical neighbor, I simplified to make a point). Unless I misunderstand your point, but honestly it seems like people here are engaging more in "gotcha" nay-saying than honest efforts of criticism... it would've taken you two minutes of googling to find out this is a non-issue.
- Semiapies 9y agoIt's not a non-issue just because people boosting a technology say it is. Ever heard of timing attacks?
- noam87 9y agoI have, but I'm no security expert so perhaps I'm not seeing something obvious. -- Do you have a specific attack in mind? Is it an insurmountable vulnerability? If so you can just explain it (or report it).