IPFS lead explains how malicious files are eliminated from its network
Decentralized ecosystems still need a way to deal with nefarious files. The InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, helps decentralize the internet by making files available across multiple locations instead of through a single centralized point of failure. What happens if someone reports a problematic IPFS file, however? Dietrich Ayala, ecosystem lead for IPFS, explained the process:"Let's say there's a URL, or an IPFS content ID as we call them — there's an IPFS address that we have identified to be malicious or dangerous somehow," Ayala told Cointelegraph. If this sort of problem were to....
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