[Gllug] Is there any demand for rsync based offsite backup?

[Nix]

On 2 Nov 2006, Russell Howe verbalised:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:49:24AM +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
>> The point about the Miasmic Aether Backup system, sort of a type of
>> freenet, is that the actual medium would be irrelevant. It would be live
>> on peoples' current storage, and multiply redundant, so that as people
>> backup and transfer onto whatever is the flavour of the current
>> decade/half decade (choose your generational turnover of technology
>> timescales!) the data just goes with them. 
>
> I see a couple of problems here... firstly there is potential for
> extortion. You lose your storage and want your data so you submit a
> request to 'the network' to retrieve it. Doesn't matter whether the
> person(s) holding your data can read it or not (it may be encrypted),
> they can always refuse to hand it over.

Not if nobody knows whose data they're storing, and it's encrypted,
and the requests are anonymized as well.

(freenet does all of this IIRC.)

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