Hollywood Hackers

[Steve Schear]

At 11:01 AM 7/31/2002 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, James A. Donald wrote:
>
> > The plan, already implemented, is to flood file sharing systems with
> > bogus files or broken files.  The solution, not yet implemented, is to
> > attach digital signatures to files, and have the file sharing software
> > recognize certain signatures as good or bad.
>
>This is completely unnecessary if you address the document with a
>cryptohash.  An URI like
>http://localhost:4711/f70539bb32961f3d7dba42a9c51442c1218a9100 can only
>adress a particular document.
>
>If you serve broken content your node's reputation falls through the
>floor.
>
>Note that content is distributed, dynamic, and you have no idea what
>you're actually serving.

Looks amazingly familiar.  Could it be, could be, could it be.... Mojo 
Nation (now MNet http://mnet.sourceforge.net )?

steve