On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 04:40:26PM -0300, J.M. Porup wrote:
If we really want a permanent archive of humanity's work, we
need to build some kind of distributed Noah's Ark. Archive.org is
no good (book depositories are the first to go when the book-burning
starts), and asking the book-burners at the NSA and GCHQ to guard
our civilization's store of knowledge is laughable on its face.
Something P2P, maybe blockchain-based, might work. Convincing people
of the reality and urgency of the threat is another matter.
The library community has the right term for this: LOCKSS (Lots of
copies keeps stuff safe).
Miles Fidelman
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