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Yeah, but it's an acyclic graph. :(

• Terr_ 3y ago
  Hmm, I'm not sure about "acyclic", since maybe victims can impose some kind of retaliation on a scammer/spammer, but the path back is either a much weaker link or involves more hops that lose strength. So maybe it's about comparing flow? Maybe the aggregate (sum? average) of flow along paths they can use to harm a victim are stronger than the reverse that a victim can use to fight back. Is there a discrete-math term for that? Delta of inversed maximum flow something something?
  • MR4D 3y ago
    The reverse flow is probably weaker by a million to 1. Tons of people are scammed each year, and there are very, very few retaliatory paths. I would suspect that the graph is acyclic for most people, but for people like, say, Krebs, that they have a different graph that most people don’t have. In other words, they’re on a different graph.