[tahoe-dev] Goodbye Pubgrid

[Shawn Willden]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:39 AM, David Triendl <david at triendl.name> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The pubgrid is gone. Shut down.
>
> Since nobody has written an explanation yet, let me be the one to do it:
>
> In the last few months the pubgrid has gained some unwanted attention,
> notably
> by hackers who started to post database dumps of hacked sites, hacking
> tools,
> etc. on the grid.


That's very sad.  Can we come up with an alternative way to make the pubgrid
non-useful to abusers, but still of value to people who'd like to experiment
with Tahoe?  Perhaps we could make all shares on the grid short-lived,
lasting at most a few hours?  Other ideas?

-- 
Shawn
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