Will tomorrow's hardfork open SteemIt to flood attacks?
The solution proposed to Issue #176 attempts to discourage spammers and encourage quality posts, but this solution will only work for non-malicious users. Under the new rules an attacker could flood the site with spam posts and bury quality posters, No? What's to stop an attacker from submitting a large amount of posts in a short time frame from 100-200 new accounts? An attacker won't care that his posts aren't earning!
One potential solution to this issue is to place some restrictions on each newly created Steem account until the new acc reaches a certain amount of steem power, which would make it time consuming and expensive to mount such an attack.
i think there already are built in limitations... basically your steem power determines how much network bandwidth you can use..... ie, if you try to post or vote too quickly with a low amount of steem power, then it throws an error... theres a thing about it in the white paper, though its kind of technical.
Well, an attacker can still make a few hundred acc, the bandwidth limits only apply to each acc, no?
well, yeah but hell either have to authenticate through FB or reddit, make them with miners or pay the account creation fees.... thats a lot of dough to spend just to screw with the platform...
A clever botmaker won't have any problems with those.
I think it's only a matter of time before we start seeing flood attacks on SteemIt. I propose that new acc are limited until certain thresholds are met.
For example, it must first assess and comment on other posts?
Never stopped people from trying to clog bitcoins blocks :] But Im not aware of any Steem Futures Contracts as of yet, So really no way to profit from FUD.