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Careful: this gets you dangerously close to privacy violations. You may not want certain people to know that you are fetching a piece of content. "Hmm, the profile picture for this specific friend loaded suspiciously quickly.."

A similar mistake is security updates over bittorrent: a real-time list of vulnerable hosts.

Argh. Privacy really is such a double-edged sword.

You could still keep those bits off of the WAN, though. In a "privacy mode" the gateway could coordinate and throw in an average delay.

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