Extracting guarantees from chaos

  • Authors:
  • John Kubiatowicz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The P2P revolution promises freedom from boundaries, censorship, and centralized control. P2P proponents claim the vast untapped resource of personal computers owned by ordinary people can be combined together to build something greater and more reliable than the sum of its parts.