“P2P decentralized selfhosted networks”
I worked for a company that had great P2P tech for video delivery in corporations. We had a good customer base including GM, some large banks and other big companies, but lower and lower bandwidth prices kept eroding our market.
I never really trusted P2P on my home equipment as I didn’t know what was coming and going. It always struck me as a way to turn your home machine into a spam server, drug trade server or porn server without you knowing until the FBI knocks on the door.
“I never really trusted P2P on my home equipment as I didn’t know what was coming and going. It always struck me as a way to turn your home machine into a spam server, drug trade server or porn server without you knowing until the FBI knocks on the door.”
I understand those concerns big time. But a secure private network can be constructed using unique porting, encryption, extreme certification, hashing, unique Bitcoin ID and such. Been playing with ZeroNet for about a year now and while it is dirtied up already, A fork of the protocol would be an excellent base to build your own off grid private and secure P2P network on the side.
One has to consider that the concerns you have could happen just as well on the clear net as it could on a P2P net. If someone doesn’t have all the tools like you and I use, a website full of forced scripts could also inject illegal stuff in your machine. So P2P is no more dangerous than the clear web.
ZeroNet is truly worth taking a look at. The documentation is extremely interesting in how it works. It has back and forth security checks like crazy...