Blacklisting: obvious P2P app

Wed Sep 24 21:44:36 UTC 2003

Thus spake David Schwartz (davids at webmaster.com) [24/09/03 17:39]:
> 	If anyone who attempts to distribute such a list is DoSed to oblivion,
> people will stop being willing to distribute such a list. Yes, spam is an
> economic activity, but spammers may engage in long-term planning. You can't
> keep the list of distributors secret. I'd be very interested in techiques
> that overcome this problem. I've been looking into tricking existing
> widely-deployed infrastructures into acting a distributors, but this raises
> both ethical and technical questions.

P2P has been suggested, and while I make no comments about P2P itself...
What about Freenet?  It hides the origin of the file(s), it's truly
distributed, it's encrypted, it's authenticated, and it will do your dishes.

Okay, so it won't actually do your dishes.  But it seems to do everything
that most other people have suggested.  It's incredibly difficult to DoS a
Freenet node, and it's incredibly easy to set one up (just requires some
hefty CPU).