From hearings on the Berman-Coble bill, online at http://www.house.gov/judiciary/saaf092602.htm On decentralization: ==================== The most threatening...
... This type of DDoS is different, in that it is not relying on sheer traffic to implement a DoS, but issuing a number of file requests to tie up available ...
... Hm, ok, so servents stop using upload slots and instead let uploaders use all available bandwidth, just like standard web servers. ... A couple things work...
Lucas Gonze
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Oct 2, 2002 8:07 pm
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... An obvious extension of these two ideas is to open a very large number of idle connections to each Gnutella node, possibly exploiting hard limits or...
... Not to mention the likelihood that Gnutella software authors will simply implement the same technique the antispam community uses to identify IP addresses...
Brian Behlendorf
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Oct 2, 2002 10:10 pm
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... I suggested on blanu.net that Curious Yellow would be good for this purpose, easily deploying an ever expanding and hard to trace network for DDoSing....
... Even if the attack is distributed, my hunch is an attack coming from a given IP is an IP that will never be connected to a valid, human-operated ...
Kevin Prichard
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Oct 3, 2002 1:18 am
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... The response to that is to auto-kick people who's bandwidth use isn't over a certain threshold. I do that anyway. If I'm only transferring to them at...
A co-worker of mine has implemented a de-centralized version of an artificial immune system that would seem ideal for this application. The system can...
Rod Price
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Oct 3, 2002 3:06 am
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... Except for: the activity the DoS'ers are trying to stop, itself. So, once resharing of partial file fragments is widespread, a relatively simple...
... The only problem is that caching networks have their own set of troubles, like coordinated attacks using many malicious peers to insert and request bogus...
Dear All: Please share the following message with your colleagues/students/friends. These research programs are open for national and "international" students....
... Any chance of getting more of an executive summary, Rod? My first thought is that the idea of 'us' and 'them', as opposed to the 'me' and 'everybody else'...
Lucas Gonze
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Oct 3, 2002 5:00 pm
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red/blue http://networks.ecse.rpi.edu/~rsatish/casestudy/#aqm other good links on that page....
I've attached the conference paper. It's contribution to the field lies in the fact that Keith's implementation is distributed over a small network. The...
Rod Price
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Oct 3, 2002 10:32 pm
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For those of you who happen to have missed this BAA, see http://dtsn.darpa.mil/ixo/solicitations/arms/index.htm Doug -- E. Douglas Jensen (at home) ...
What I haven't been able to puzzle out of this paper is the strategy for keeping antigens and viruses from flipping. I'm thinking of this bit from the curious...
Lucas Gonze
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Oct 11, 2002 9:28 pm
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With a goal to subvert the dominant notion of value, I am setting up a conversation exchange, with SF Giants tickets ³sold² in exchange for interesting...
Although the symposium doesn't specifically deal with decentralized reputation systems I suspect it will be an important topic. Some of the names seem familiar...
Signs of a backlash against the content cartel, on the grounds that: 1) the tech sector can't revive without distributed computing 2) distributed computing and...
... Now that qualifies as innovative thought! Notice the success listen.com has had recently signing up the broadband companies like Verizon. Listen.com of...
Johannes Ernst
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Oct 17, 2002 4:16 am
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... http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=4901 ... "DSL customers are ideally equipped to enjoy Rhapsody because their broadband connection gives them greater...
Lucas Gonze
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Oct 17, 2002 2:32 pm
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... Odlyzko makes good points, but he isn't the first to point out that IT is a much bigger industry. The problem is that the content company stocks trade for...
At 10:32 AM 10/17/2002, Kevin Werbach wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/ ... It is not only the entertainment content providers but...
... There's some disconnect between IT business models and kleptocracy. Here's a potential explanation, don't know how much I really believe in it at this...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Oct 17, 2002 6:28 pm
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... Do you think it is a life or death struggle for the tech industry? Is there any way to measure the impact of the content industry on the tech downturn?...
Lucas Gonze
lgonze@...
Oct 17, 2002 6:40 pm
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... Good point. Maybe that's why Kazaa is pretty unique in having a lobbyist in DC to lobby for IPUF ( http://www.grouter.net/ipuf ) or some similar solution? ...
OceanStore is "a global persistent data store designed to scale to billions of users. It provides a consistent, highly-available, and durable storage utility...
... Indeed. They have been applied *inappropriately*. That doesn't mean they cannot be applied. If you look at the "n economists" amicus in Eldred, you'll see...
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