I feel like if/once they reach the number of expected participants (10k), it'd b...

tpolm · 2026-06-21T01:53:34

So what prevents enemy from creating 20knparticipants constantly sending fake data?

embedding-shape · 2026-06-21T18:35:05

Nothing, but what's the value when it's trivial to filter it away based on known good actors? There will be a frontline somewhere, if suddenly it's reporting drones on the other end of the country, and you know there is no good nodes there, you ignore it.

sourcegrift · 2026-06-20T13:32:17

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embedding-shape · 2026-06-20T14:37:30

"Unwanted traffic", is what I go by typically. What is your understanding (if you have one) of that term?

quietbritishjim · 2026-06-20T15:04:25

Spam specifically means (at least originally) so much unwanted traffic that it overwhelms legitimate traffic. So can I see why that commenter might have considered it a contradiction to say "the majority being truthful" as a strategy to deal with spam.

The name comes from a Monty Python sketch where "SPAM!" is being sung so loudly that it drowned out any other conservation.

embedding-shape · 2026-06-20T15:47:22

> Spam specifically means (at least originally) so much unwanted traffic that it overwhelms legitimate traffic.

I guess what today is more commonly known as DOS (or even DDOS sometimes, even if it isn't actually "distributed" per se, for some reason).

I did know about the name since before, but not the original meaning, so cheers for the explanation :)

quietbritishjim · 2026-06-20T18:30:15

I'd still say DOS is a little different because it's the server that can't tell what's valid; to the human, in that situation, if their request eventually completes then it's definitely their data coming back, it just completes slowly or not at all. With spam, it's a human wading through junk to find valid data.