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Re:IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in t... by Crespyl on Friday December 08, 2017 @03:47PM (#15881904)
Since IPFS is based on content addressing, if a node tries to spoof a piece of content, any peers trying to fetch from the malicious node will immediately see that the content provided does not match the desired hash.

I'm not sure how peers handle that situation, I'd assume it'd be treated like wire corruption (retry) or give up and try to fetch from a different peer.

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Re:IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in t... by cobookman on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:34PM (#15884311)
But that doesn't stop ddos attacks.
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Re:IPFS Pubsub: Distributed named pubsub channels based in t... by brokenmachine on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:42PM (#15902164)
True, but a ddos also doesn't exactly mean the content is "exploitable".

I presume future clients would block nodes that share false content (if clients don't already).

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