Re: On privacy and cloud services

Dnia niedziela, 16 czerwca 2013 o 20:42:33 Darrell Prince` napisał(a):
> Self hosted also leads risk of data loss; few people have data mirrors set
> up. No data loss has to be a key feature, as well. Would it be possible to
> keep people's data in encrypted chunks on other servers and laptops ?

I believe distributed, federated, self-hosted, peer-to-peer social networks 
(a'la Sneer and RetroShare) should be built around the concepts of distributed 
data stores, so that even when one node is not accessible, data from it is 
still acessible (to those with access, of course) as it's been distributed 
among other nodes.

Think: BitTorrent with secure, public-private key cryptography layer. no 
explicit backups needed, as the stuff is always somewhere In The Net. Of 
course, what would be needed is to have it work automagically, and not on a 
"popularity contest" basis like BitTorrent.

Each user of the network could decide how much disk space it can "lend" to the 
network for that purpose (and I guess that would also qualify how much data 
this user can put into the network; quid pro quo). This aspect would be 
similar to SETI@Home, only the shared resource wouldn't be RAM and CPU, but 
disk space.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania