[volunteergrid2-l] Slashdot post

[Shawn Willden]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 01:32:54PM -0400, Ted Rolle, Jr. wrote:
> > First, we need to give and expect the same level of honor and integrity
> > as the CIA and NSA.
>
> Meh, Tor nodes and remailers run on less trust. If the system can't
> handle a few bad apples it has definitely a problem.
>

As presently implemented, Tahoe does require more trust than Tor or
remailers.  Not only does uptime need to be good, but we also need admins
who will keep their nodes up to date, monitor space available and track
their consumption against their donation.  We also need admins not to do
malicious things like silently deleting lots of file shares.  When the grid
is small, those sorts of misbehaviors are easily managed, but as it gets
bigger they get harder to address.


> I understand 100 nodes is the scaling limit with today's codebase.
>

That number is commonly tossed about, but allmydata.org got bigger than
that before they started running into big problems.


> I might be a bozo, but ask Zooko whether he would trust me with a node
> or a couple.
> <http://bigpig.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome>
>

If Zooko will vouch for you, I certainly have no objections :-)

-- 
Shawn
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