<div>Is the freedom box (FBx) a DDoS mitigator? What about a load balancer? Social graphs tend to have highly connected nodes, which would be primary targets for disruption, and I have this amazing collection of pictures of my cat that everyone is going to want to see. Therefore I would add malicious (DDOS) and friendly (/. effect) traffic spikes to Sandy's threat model [1]. The abilities listed below go a long way towards enabling DDoS mitigation and load balancing across trusted FBxes, but does this happen at a routing protocol level or within the FBx stack or both, or am I missing something? If this was already discussed elsewhere, please direct me appropriately. </div>
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## Facilitates secure, anonymous and private chat and messaging<br>
* Is a platform for distributed collaboration.<br>
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## Security and Reliability<br>
* Is smart about of knowing who to trust and how much to trust them.<br>
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## Connectivity and Interoperability<br>
* Is able to Communicate securely, privately and anonymously with other FreedomBoxes and devices.<br>
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## Data Backup<br>
* Is your encrypted backup server.<br>
* Is capable of storing backups on other FreedomBoxes, local storage or on third party servers.<br>
* Is recoverable by strength of your social network in addition to the usual methods (passphrase or keys).<br>
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## Is A Good Net Citizen.<br>
* Is capable of detecting intrusion on its downstream LAN (e.g. looks for bot-shaped packets/traffic).<br>
* Is a filter for ads and other unwanted content.<br>
* Is a tool for collaborative SPAM filtering.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div><div>[1] - <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-May/001633.html">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-May/001633.html</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>ps - Hi! I'm a graduate student and I've been reading this list since September.</div>