[sldev] P2P Web Textures now in demand to enable lossless image downloads to viewer

[dale at daleglass.net]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:51:53PM -0700, Erik Anderson wrote:
> It is very difficult to serve the "wrong" image via BitTorrent, the "link"
> that you are given when told to begin downloading it contains numerous
> hashes of the file that would discard any bad data.
What I mean is that unless LL hosts the tracker, there's nothing
stopping the one running it from hosting a file with the right name, but
the wrong content. Obviously announced with the correct checksums and
all.

This is the same problem as what people propose taking advantage of when
they discuss "P2P backups": Take your stuff, encrypt it, call it
"porn.zip" and wait for it to be replicated.



> This may have changed since I read this, but there have been numerous
> requests to the people that run Debian Linux to move their package system to
> BitTorrent.  Their response is that the packages are so small that the
> torrent system would not be optimized for retrieving them; the time it takes
> to establish the connection to the torrent would cause too much of a
> performance hit.
My thoughts exactly
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