RE: [iwar] Hello (Brave New) world
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:18:28 -0800
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Subject: RE: [iwar] Hello (Brave New) world
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Let's not forget the venerable ICQ, which has been swapping files for years
as well..
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Bartoletti [mailto:azb@llnl.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:17 PM
To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [iwar] Hello (Brave New) world
>
> You have led this back to IWAR, if not mistaken AOL has a product out
>called Aimster that is about file sharing of your computers with your
>friends on AIM (available to all users). That opens up a new ball of wax
>because it may not just share music, if the appropriate files are shared
>without the owners knowledge it can/may lead to the sharing of a
completely
>new and different software file to be used in anything. No, not
>trying/iniate fear in anyone, but strange things can happen. I know it is
>now an old article but some of the information about
>Aimster/NullSoft(Gnutella) is available below.
>
>http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/08/11/aimster/
Absolutely :)
There is no reason that these distributed sharing services/protocols must
be limited to MP3s. Any and all binary objects will be shared. And as
with any such service, you can miss-configure things so that you end up
sharing what you did not intend, e.g., your web-cookies. But that is
mostly an issue of "personal hygiene".
The "FreeNet" and "MojoNation" projects take the technology to the extreme;
Do you want to back-up an important file, and don't trust your own system
to be sufficient? These services will encrypt and distribute your material
across hundreds of cooperating member-systems. The other members need not
know what they are storing. You can configure things so that only you, or
alternately the whole world, can access the material. It becomes nearly
impossible for anyone but you to "erase" the material, and you can even
set things up so that you cannot yourself make the stuff go away.
Unlike the centralized index-servers of Napster, these P2P (peer to peer)
systems also distribute the burden of indexing and searching. Its like a
"Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon" effect to search the entire space. Its not
as easily scalable as having huge central servers, but if bandwidth and CPU
speeds continue to climb, that will become a distant issue.
I try to imagine what this will lead to in 5-10 years, but I guess it will
be interesting.
____tony____
Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900
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