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Originally posted by jaan
there you go... the ultimate argument in those long and heated "leech control" discussions: no matter what system you devise, somebody somewhere will hack it, and introduce their "leech-away-without-worrying" client to cheering public as a novelty...
a question: do you think the next KMD should follow DK's "innovation", and also boost everyones PL to 1000?
- jaan
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Hi
jaan, nice to see you around!
My conclusion from cases like this is that in a decentralized environment a client must treat
any declarations by other clients (especially those that are used as some kind of merits for better bandwidth or queue treatment) as declarations only until they can be directly verified or confirmed by trusted peer contacts (if the network supports trust relations between peers). As the example shows, closed source clients are not any safer against cheating and other abuse than open source ones.
- tg
