Oh, might be an electrum sucks problem too; I was under the impression that was unrelated malware.
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Yeah, but a public full node doesn't necessarily tell the truth to incoming peers, same as electrum servers. I don't see why one is fine but not the other.
The important difference happens if you set up your full node to get the news from a variety of full nodes, instead of just one trusted source.
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That's a fair point. I guess electrum clients only talk to a single server at a time.
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No, it's not a good point. A full node connected to one untrustworthy peer is still fairly secure; if it wasn't you'd be screwed as there's no good way to ensure you're actually connected to more than one peer other than known peers.
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It's the good old effort vs reward X graph, I think. It requires more effort to sybil attack a target/targets than to be lucky and have your evil server be "the one" it connects to.
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No it's not. Sybil attacks are pretty easy; known servers are clearly evil when they're evil, and getting rid of them is fairly easy. Stick with the latter.
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