[Mnet-devel] interesting paper from Ross Anderson and George Danezis (fwd)

[Kyle Hasselbacher]

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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 05:20:48PM -0400, icepick wrote:

>At some point I want an "autopublish" function.  Take this folder, and 
>make sure all the files in it are accessible via the network.

I had a more radical idea.  I wanted to autopublish other networks.  For
instance:

1.  Publish random things found in alt.binaries.mp3.
2.  Publish things found on Gnutella (watch the requests fly past, watch
the searches fly past, guess what's popular and run with it).
3.  Perpetually mirror the latest linux-*.tar.bz2 into the network.
4.  Scrape a bittorrent site, see what's popular, mirror that.

Of course, I never got around to it, but it doesn't seem hard to stitch
some other automated utilities together into doing this.

These mainly fall into a category that might be described as "I wish my
bandwidth would go away" (big files in, big files out, non-stop).  Also,
you'd want to have a large network with lots of empty block servers; all
this publishing would keep pushing out old content.

Just throwing that out there so that someone else can help me procrastinate
on it.
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