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Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen C.van Gelderen)
Sun Aug 11 00:13:50 2002

Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:42:31 -0400
Cc: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
To: AARG!Anonymous <remailer@aarg.net>
From: Jeroen C.van Gelderen <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
In-Reply-To: <8c25bf764b14de9e2d3d9cd24a6d49fb@aarg.net>


On Friday, Aug 9, 2002, at 13:05 US/Eastern, AARG!Anonymous wrote:
> If only...  Luckily the cypherpunks are doing all they can to make sure
> that no such technology ever exists.  They will protect us from being 
> able
> to extend trust across the network.  They will make sure that any open
> network like Gnutella must forever face the challenge of rogue clients.
> They will make sure that open source systems are especially vulnerable
> to rogues, helping to drive these projects into closed source form.

This argument is a straw man but to be fair: I am looking forward to 
your detailed proof that the only way to protect a Gnutella-like 
network from rogue clients is a Palladium-like system. You are so 
adamant that I have to assume you have such proof sitting right on your 
desk. Please share it with us.

-J


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