Are centralized networks doomed from the start ?

Recently I heard bad rumors around the DC network. Some malevolent person ( unknown ) has written several scripts for the most known DC hub software, that allow the hub owners to use their users in abusive forms of flooding, using the CTM feature of the protocol. These scripts have started to spread around and now “script kiddies” use it for flame wars and endless childish attacks. Also, important sites that currently hold on the DC community like the major hublists OpenHublist or DCHublist and the ADC counterpart ADCHublist were attacked and were down for a long time. The major community for ADC , ADCPortal was also attacked ( ADCPortal also provide an alternative wiki to the one on the ADC Project ). My first concern is that this problem can spread up to the centralized networks principle. In this case, the central node ( hub ) has the power to absolutely control the leaves that are connected, thus it can abusively send them in possible attacks at wish. This might be a serious problem for the ...