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| author | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400 |
| commit | b0c376d2a7ded722cd49f88e515c53632ec75730 (patch) | |
| tree | de354549a8285063f482975bf44db7ba97f47c29 /wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md | |
| parent | 693eec80b65299ff679a458bb7039d656ece550f (diff) | |
Typographic fixes around double quotes.
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diff --git a/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md b/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md index 110fe29..23b731b 100644 --- a/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md +++ b/wiki/gossamer/mistakes.md @@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ Gossamer's network protocol converges towards a total graph, where every node knows how to connect to every other node, and new information (new posts) rapidly push out to every single node. -If you've ever been privy to the Twitter "firehose" feed, you'll understand +If you've ever been privy to the Twitter “firehose” feed, you'll understand why this is a drastic mistake. Even a moderately successful social network sees on the order of millions of messages a day. Delivering _all_ of this directly to _every_ node _all_ of the time would rapidly drown users in bandwidth charges and render their internet connections completely unusable. -Gossamer's design also has no concept of "quiet" periods: every fifteen to +Gossamer's design also has no concept of “quiet” periods: every fifteen to thirty seconds, rain or shine, every node is supposed to wake up and exchange data with some other node, regardless of how long it's been since either node in the exchange has seen new data. This very effectively ensures that @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Gossamer node immediately forwards it to at least one other node to inject it into the network. This makes unencrypted Gossamer relatively vulnerable to traffic analysis for correlating Gossamer identities with human beings. -Someone at a network "pinch point" -- an ISP, or a coffee shop wifi router -- +Someone at a network “pinch point” -- an ISP, or a coffee shop wifi router -- can monitor Gossamer traffic entering and exiting nodes on their network and easily identify which nodes originated which messages, and thus which nodes have access to which identities. This seriously compromises the effectiveness |
