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greyface-today at 8:28 PM1 replyview on HN

IPFS doesn't fetch or store content that the user has not explicitly requested. If your application allows strangers to request arbitrary IPFS objects, this might be a concern. Otherwise, no, simply running a node doesn't expose you to this risk.


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ameliustoday at 8:48 PM

Ok, then I misremembered, thanks.

(Couldn't it be that the caching behavior of intermediate nodes still make it a possibility?)