One word... Kadmelia! It's worth saying (and has been said elsewhere already) that fully distributed search has existed for years. Kadmelia is just one notabl

One word... Kadmelia! It's worth saying (and has been said elsewhere already) that fully distributed search has existed for years. Kadmelia is just one notable example in wide use. I do think it's great that it's coming to the torrent world though! The characterization of it by many seems to suggest that this is novel and groundbreaking. The statements made about how you'd have to shut down the internet to take it down are also a bit hyperbolic. After all, algorithms to sniff, detect and either block or throttle this kind of traffic are widely deployed. Of course it's an arms race and encryption and obfuscation are used to counter. I'm not sure what the current state of that battle is, but clearly the main tool in protecting these kinds of capabilities is our voices, not fundamental technical properties.