On 7 May 2018 at 18:17, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 07 May 2018 20:15:56 +0000, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > What about forgeries? >> >> Can you elaborate on what you mean? > > Don't you fear computer vandalism? Script kids or other vandals > exploiting an oversimplified counting mechanism to fake the > statistics. They can do that already by just flooding the proxy servers with valid looking requests for data. If the data turns out to be useless because of it, then it stops getting recorded. I don't think there is much we can do with publicly facing mirror servers which wouldn't be taken offline by 3 jerks and a small IoT botnet. [I don't think any of the projects could stand that either.] The larger amount of problems will be how much of the data will report that it is a PDP-11, Vax740, long strings of uuencoded /dev/random, non-existant variants (Fedora Ubuntu variant), etc. But again I expect that Debian popcorn and similar tools have to deal with that as much as anything else. In the end, the user is able to send whatever they want to the Fedora Project proxy servers.. we can choose what to do with that data to a point, but if they want to take us offline or jam some service.. they can do it now. > _______________________________________________ > council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
