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Updated hardening doc.

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@ -45,4 +45,16 @@ to us then it is good.
Problems with this: People don't always have at least one online friend.
2. ...
2. Pick random nodes (add ourselves some random (fake) friends to increase the
pool of available nodes) and make then send requests to other nodes, the
response is then relayed back to us and compared to how the node should have
behaved. If the node is found to be behaving correctly, it is set as trusted.
Only trusted nodes are sent in send node packets, that is unless the exact node
being queried for in the getnode packet is present, it will be sent in the
sendnode packet even if it is not trusted.
The hypothesis is that if to be part of the network nodes have to behave
correctly it should prevent disruption from nodes that behave incorrectly.
(This idea is currently being implemented in the harden branch.)
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