Re: On privacy and cloud services

+1 my thoughts as well. This takes things beyond the DIY basic indieweb
setup and creates our own indie social cloud where we dont risk loosing
everything if our node goes offline.
 On Jun 17, 2013 11:29 AM, "Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak" <rysiek@fwioo.pl>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Pozdrawiam
> Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
>
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