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Originally posted by Antaeogo
Open source also means no security in the areas that count (and little legal protection for that matter). Just take the open source client, put in some hostile features and you can disrupt/destroy the network (given the proper resources). |
Do not be so paranoid I think that the Gnutella users out there do got a brain and will stop using bad clients.And Open Source is also a good thing because after all most Open Source developers out there are good people that like to mess whit evil programmers they are Info Anarchist's in that aspect.So this means that if some client developer/developers develop an evil client that struck's the Gnutella network they will do counter strickes to preserve the networks integrity.
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Some people see it like this:
A new client pops up around the time network disruption is at it's greatest. It has lots of features and is being rapidly developed... so it attracts lots of users. This conspiracy theory may be silly but i've heard more ridiculous things. |
I have not used Shareaza so i do not know if it is good or not but time will tell if it turned out to be an Evil client or not.
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Read Search The GDF for discussion about this. 2 client developers that I know of have added anti-hammering functionality to their clients, just because of Qtrax.
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I will do that!
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Excuse me, but you've not been living under a rock have you?  |
Maybe I have who knows!In a previous life maybe I was a crab or something
The reson I tghink that Gnutella is strong against attacks is because it is so decentralized and with so many clients so a Single client can not destroy it just harm it a little bit and since it is open source developers will always fight back against attacks.
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He's probably suggesting that any for-profit client developer could be bribed... |
That is true but it still does not hurt the network.