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January-February 2005 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
pp. 45-50
The Economics of Resisting Censorship
George Danezis, University of Cambridge
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
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Early peer-to-peer systems sought to resist censorship by distributing content randomly over the entire Internet. The most popular ones simply let nodes serve the resources they were most interested in. The authors offer the first model inspired by economics and conflict theory to analyze such systems' security.
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Index Terms- peer-to-peer, P2P, economics, information security, censorship
Citation:
George Danezis, Ross Anderson,
"The Economics of Resisting Censorship,"
IEEE Security and Privacy,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 45-50,
January-February,
2005
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