[p2p-hackers] darknet ~= (blacknet, f2f net)

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Fri Dec 2 16:02:07 UTC 2005


zooko at zooko.com wrote:
> However nowadays some people in the mass media seem to think that a "darknet"
> means primarily a network which is "invitation-only", i.e. a "small-world" or
> "f2f" net [globe].

Sorry to split an already frayed hair, but invitation-only isn't the 
same as f2f. Invitation-only implies that you must know some member of 
the network, whereas f2f implies that you must know the members you 
connect to. For example Groove and WASTE are invitation-only but not f2f.

Cheers,
Michael



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