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The first question I have is whether a resource lender have a say in what's being computed on their resource? If yes, it's not 'censorship-resistant'. If no, h
by ComodoHacker 5y ago
The first question I have is whether a resource lender have a say in what's being computed on their resource?
If yes, it's not 'censorship-resistant'. If no, how can one be sure he's not transcoding CP at home?
- shakezula 5y agoThis is a hard problem, but usually gets handwaved away to "that's the cost to play". Distributed storage has the same problem - how do you know you're not storing CP? - and there are some novel approaches to attempting to solve that problem (content hash checks against known material, IP list flagging, etc...) but at the end of the day you basically have to admit you can't solve that problem. That's the price of "censorship resistance".
- ComodoHacker 5y agoAnonymity isn't the only possible solution to censorship resistance. Transparency + decentralization is another.
- shakezula 5y agoAbsolutely agreed, I just was referring to specifically the problem-sets where anonymity is crucial / required / built-in/ whatever you want to call it.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 5y agoI think the more important question is: Does the foreign code my machine runs have Internet access? Or can it only send the work result to the Golem network itself? I wouldn't want my IP to be used for DoS on the public Internet or whatever.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoThe answer is yes as long as you're using any browser, Golem wouldn't make it much worse.