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You know, back in the "old days", we used to host packages on these sites called "mirrors", so when one went down, we could get the package from another, and ve
by peterwwillis 9y ago
You know, back in the "old days", we used to host packages on these sites called "mirrors", so when one went down, we could get the package from another, and verify authenticity using multiple sources and signed files. There would be hundreds of mirrors for one set of files.
Kind of funny how shitty modern technology is. But I heard a quote recently that kind of explains it: "The more sophisticated something is, the easier it is to break it."
- christophilus 9y agoYup. That's a good solution. P2P would probably be a decent solution, too-- bit torrent or block chain or whatever variant.