What about nodes sniffing data?

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@anon40790172

And what about populair websites on the network? Websites will become faster because when more people request them. So I’m in China, running Maidsafe and I’m visiting a website about the the “Tankman”. A lot of Chinese people in the network find out about that site so more request them. the Chinese government is sniffing the SAFE-network, it finds the site with the fanous picture of a man in front of a tank. They know the chuncks and hashes which are used. So they create 100 nodes, sniff all the data requests and find out about nodes in China requesting an site about Tankman.

They would need to get to a node close to each person they want to snoop on. Never mind the enormity of the hash list this is extremely difficult (and can be made near impossible). The only way to find an IP now is to get close to that node, to figure out which node then you need to guess the ID the person uses for getting data (hint its not a username ). Then you need to be one of the 4 nodes close to that ID (which may change) and so on. It gets very mad very fast, to the point where you may need to create network_population - 3 nodes to be sure of getting that person. It goes on more than this again, so it’s not an easy task. We need to keep checking though.

No reason people cannot use different Mpid Getter ID’s per session, then this gets crazy hard. Of course nobody is saying we have thought of 100% of the cases though, but so far so good.