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> spammers would be able to flood the network with crap Would there be a legit motivation to do that? I get that it's a threat, but would it be possible to gai
by generalizations 6y ago
> spammers would be able to flood the network with crap
Would there be a legit motivation to do that? I get that it's a threat, but would it be possible to gain anything from DDOSing that network?
Seems like either a) you come up with a system for banning spam IPs, or b) the spammers improve the anonymity of the rest of the network by creating more noise for the messages to hide in.
- londons_explore 6y agoWhen you design a system for users to send short messages for free, there is always someone who says "I could split my hard drive into billions of tiny pieces and send them all!".
- jakear 6y agoAny state actors who like to snoop would be incentivized to cripple the snooping-free network for the low low price of a few high capacity links. (Or better yet very many low capacity links)
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoIf its easy and annoying then there does not need to be a motivation. Someone somewhere in the world will pump out terabytes of junk just to ruin the system for others. And banning spam IPs is a kind of crap solution. Spammers would be running on home network IP spaces mostly so as those addresses shuffle around you end up banning most legitimate users as well. I have found my self banned from many sites I am only visiting for the first time due to someone else who was on my IP address before.