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• guard-of-terra 14y ago
  See also (unrelated): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker
• dcornu 14y ago
  "The company doesn’t reveal how it works, but they appear to be flooding clients with fake information, masquerading as legitimate peers." "For a month Pirate Pay’s technology protected the film “Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I’m alive,” (distributed by The Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing company) with moderate success." Sounds likely to me
• hmottestad 14y ago
  It's probably based on the problem of malicious clients in the network consensus problem. It states that if more than a third of all clients are malicious it is not possible to come to a consensus. The solution would be to have a trust of clients. Where every clients vouches for another. The most important thing is that it has to use certificates, if not you get the following problem. I am client 'c'. I heard from client 'a' that client 'b' is dirty. So I tell this to client 'd', but the truth is I'm lying. However now the problem is: Is 'a' lying about 'b' or am I ('c') lying about 'a'? However having the messages signed by the clients solves this problem.
• mkup 14y ago
  So, Microsoft is funding botnet operator to DDoS P2P network? It is legal? What if tomorrow Apple will fund botnet operator to DDoS Microsoft?