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Out of curiosity, if this app really allows unstoppable and uncensorable posting, how does it deal with DoS attacks?
by lottin 5y ago
Out of curiosity, if this app really allows unstoppable and uncensorable posting, how does it deal with DoS attacks?
- dboreham 5y agoThere's also the question of reachability on IPFS. Something _existing_ on IPFS is not the same as : everyone can access it .
- jandrese 5y agoThat's the beauty of it, it doesn't. You can spam nonsense all day long. This is only a problem if you want people to actually read what you are posting.
- 0des 5y agoI would challenge the downvoters of this comment to contribute an informed rebuttal. IPFS is just content-addressing+p2p. In the conventional sense it is similar in comparison to the greater internet. Joe Blow can be on his blog talking about blenders and mixing spoons all day and none of us have to know he exists until we follow the address to his content, thereby downloading it. Where IPFS takes this a step further is enrolling the viewer/reader/participant in the swarm of peers replicating this content.
- lottin 5y agoThe point is that hosting content uses resources, and resources are limited. Therefore, if nothing prevents it, an attacker could theoretically use up all the resources available, which would bring this supposedly unstoppable publishing platform to a stop. Yet, if they prevented it, it would be a kind of censorship, so the platform could not claim to be uncensorable.
- ergot_vacation 5y agoDespite all the talk IPFS is just voluntary content mirroring. If people feel you're spamming, they'll stop mirroring your shit. Which of course illustrates the worthlessness of the platform for "Anti-censorship" and "Free Speech."