Commit 1be8adad3f037dd1b09fa92d8ff7ddd222fa6674
Answer question about bad actors
André Staltz authored on 12/29/2017, 2:35:55 PMGitHub committed on 12/29/2017, 2:35:55 PM
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| 19 | 19 … | ## p2p is great, but sometimes you need a single authoritative source of truth | |
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| 21 | 21 … | ... | |
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| 23 | -## What if nazis take over the p2p network? | ||
| 23 … | +## What if p2p technology is used by "bad actors"? | ||
| 24 | 24 … | ||
| 25 | -... | ||
| 25 … | +A very common concern with P2P technologies is that they aid crime, piracy, pedophilia, and other bad activities. The upside of not having an authority is also its unfortunate downside. That said, this aspect of information systems is overestimated when it comes to other technologies like cars, weapons, hard drives, and kitchen cutlery. Terrorist attacks are carried out often through cars and common knives, yet it seems absurd to common sense that there would be global realtime surveillance of all cars and kitchen knives in order to prevent crimes. On the other hand, information systems by themselves cannot directly cause any physical harm. The absurdity of censoring cars and cutlery should extend also to information systems, or at least the discourse around security and crime prevention should get the priorities right and first address the root causes, the supporting incentives, the real weapons, and the tradeoffs involved. | ||
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| 27 … | +More about this: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-has-no-record-of-thwarting-large-terror-attacks-regardless-of-snowden-leaks/ | ||
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| 27 | 29 … | ## What areas do modern p2p apps still struggle with? | |
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| 29 | 31 … | Apps still seem to have a hard time managing resources, like CPU and network | |
| 30 | 32 … | bandwidth. If an app naively tries to download and replicate ALL of the data it | |
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