Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ...
by meltedcapacitor on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:31PM
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If a peer to peer system of interest caught on, I'm sure google would be glad to run 90% of the nodes (incognito) to have some view of what's happening therein.
Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ...
by cookiengineer on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:45AM
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Well, that depends on the scenarios that the threat model tries to identify.
The question at this point (or rather in that specific moment) is what will lead to classifying malicious actors, and how these malicious actors can be identified permanently.
If it's a blocked IP: not a good solution. If it's a TLS certificate for said peer: probably better.
Fighting anti censorship mechanisms is really hard due to its statistically local-true nature. The buckets have to be carefully sorted and randomized with multiple geolocations, ISPs, and fully-encrypted network protocols - to the very least in order to make this work.
That is the real power behind a peer-to-peer system in my opinion: Offloading, and therefore removing the capabilities to track anything as a single node in the system.
The only issue is peer-to-peer transport encryption, which can be solved if done correctly.
Something like "statistically correct" DNS, or assets, or contents should've been the norm a long time ago. That's exactly what I'm striving for with my Tholian Stealth Browser [1]
(to clarify: I mean peer-to-peer as a networking concept, specifically as the opposite concept of a decentralized blockchain)
[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth