I wonder how this system can be protected from spam - if anyone can send data there, enemy can, too

embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I feel like if/once they reach the number of expected participants (10k), it'd be easy to filter out the spam as long as the majority are truthful.

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sourcegrift 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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quietbritishjim an hour ago | parent [-]

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 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> 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 :)