Hollywood Hackers

[James A. Donald]

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James A. Donald:
> > 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.

Eugen Leitl
> 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.

And then the hollywood hackers flood the system with bogus
descriptions of the content identified by the crypto hashes.

We still need to implement a reputation system against a hollywood
hacker attack, even if we address content by cryptohash, as indeed
we should. 

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         James A. Donald
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