Comment by spencerflem
12 hours ago
I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.
I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either
12 hours ago
I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.
I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either
How do personal blogs deal with the HN hug of death? In this increasingly-utopian vision, I imagine that being more widespread than (paid) DDOS attempts. There won't be any money to be made (banks, Paypal, etc. won't trust the "parallel web") and with the proliferation of synthetic training data I'm not sure how useful a target a bunch of blogs and smallweb sites would be.
> I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.
Something that makes it expensive to initiate a connection and cheap (relatively) to accept or reject would probably help. I think that’s a hard problem though.
Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?
Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable that the only way you would use it is if there is a cocaine-style reward at the end of it.
> Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable
I do 95% of my web browsing via Tor Browser and it is very tolerable, most circuits are fast enough for 1080p video (Youtube, Twitch livestreams, etc) without any buffering.
Here is a speedtest I ran just moments ago, I would hardly consider this "painfully slow": https://www.speedtest.net/result/19172283165.png
Of course this is a single tor circuit with an exit node, so speeds are slower when going directly to .onion sites, but the only real slowness comes from the latency and not throughput.
They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.
I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end.
I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.
> They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.
I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm.
And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly as well-mapped as the public web. That and some Anubis or other PoW would probably go far.
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