Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior

[Julian Ashton <ashton@joltmedia.com>]

In-Reply-To: <20031217225422.GA13131@cs.uoregon.edu>

I am concearned that this is a P2P app with over 1.2 million simulatneous users 
and that anyone can write a plugin and put it on the network, the plugin CAN 
self propgate and CAN force overnet/edonkey to perform DDOS attacks. But where 
is the security that I am looking for? The owners "MetaMachine", I think that 
all plugins should required to be signed by MetaMachine and checked when 
loaded. Am I asking too much? I do not want to see this network become a mode 
of virus propogation.