[cap-talk] Virtues and Vices of Open Source

[Peter Amstutz]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:28:49AM +0100, Toby Murray wrote:

> Hmmm. A mutually-suspicious bunch of autonomous machines, clustered
> together to crawl, index, store, search and retrieve web content.
> Capability-based security is probably the best shot at solving the
> mutual-suspicion part of this conundrum. Exciting and challenging. That
> would indeed be cool to try to build and field -- it would make for some
> interesting experiments and would certainly provide a make-or-break test
> for cap security.

My concern is more for bad actors that would try to "poison" such a 
system -- whether it's spammers or the RIAA.  I suspect the answer is in 
the direction of systems based on virtual economics (popular in 
multi-agent systems research), quid pro quo interactions (I only help 
you if you help me, for example Bittorrent), blind computation on 
encrypted data (Freenet), web-of-trust systems (PGP PKI) and object 
capabilities.

Defense in depth, in other words.

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