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Another idea: Split your data into ping packet sized chucks and throw them out on the Internet. Keep all your data bouncing around on the Internet and use that
by comstock 10y ago
Another idea:
Split your data into ping packet sized chucks and throw them out on the Internet. Keep all your data bouncing around on the Internet and use that as your storage provider.
Not really practical, but a neat idea. Saw in the excellent "Silence of the wire": https://www.nostarch.com/silence.htm https://www.nostarch.com/silence.htm
- arjie 10y agoIt's analogous to delay line memory, and a common joke people when they encounter that idea of storage (which is rather clever).
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- Florin_Andrei 10y agoPoint a laser at the empty sky, modulate it with your backup file. It's gonna last forever.
- lightbulbjim 10y agoAlready implemented. See: http://esoteric.codes/post/123650565028/pingfs-storing-your-files-in-network-traffic http://esoteric.codes/post/123650565028/pingfs-storing-your-...
- stevekemp 10y agoMy personal favourite was sending data in outgoing emails to invalid destinations. Your data would get queued and a few days later you'd receive it back in an undeliverable-message. However this stopped being effective when mailserver stopped sending back the complete body of the bounced mail. Instead just a "Your mail couldn't be delivered, blah blah". You could deal with that by encoding your data in the subject-lines, though I guess ..