How do they deal with the problem that data can fall out? Do they try to provide guarantees, a la Eternity, or do they not, like Freenet?
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:47:06PM -0400, S M wrote: > I've just read an excellent article that mentions Freenet. The article is > primarily about an encrypted distributed backup system and how such an > encrypted system looks like Freenet. This backup system would be another use > for encrypted information on your hard drive for which you lack a key. If > many people / businesses used such a system it would make it a lot harder to > outlaw encryption / encryption when you dont have the key. > > This could be a killer application and possible use for a Freenet type > system although since no one would be requesting the backup it would tend to > fall off Freenet. > > Here's the link and a quick exerpt: > > http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/rupertgoodwins/0,39020691,39215931,00.htm > > A better backup can restore online freedoms > > [...] > > With Freenet, the users don't know what's in the data, nor do they know who > provided it or where it's going, which makes it impossible to prosecute > someone for wilfully hosting or distributing illicit material. Hopefully. > One potential > solution is being discussed whereby it would be illegal to have encrypted > material on your system to which you had no key; the argument goes that if > you do, you must be up to no good. It's an extension of the old "if you're > innocent, you have nothing to hide" argument for police surveillance; > morally and logically null though it is, we live in times where such ideas > are routinely turned into law. > > Yet the existence and widespread use of distributed backup would be a > sovereign cure to such nonsense. It would demonstrate just how much > potential for good exists if we're allowed to create and experiment with the > tools we've developed, and not limited by moral panic or the wish of > established interests to preserve the status quo. And my friend would no > longer be stuck with a large collection of drinks coasters that once held > his life's work. It's a good idea but I don't see how you would make it sufficiently reliable. Backups have to be reliable. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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