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Are you running IPFS nodes for unloaders to keep data persisting? From what I understand, as soon as the last available node stops broadcasting, the pinned obje
by djangowithme 8y ago
Are you running IPFS nodes for unloaders to keep data persisting? From what I understand, as soon as the last available node stops broadcasting, the pinned object is gone.
How do you deal with illegal content? Aka people using this service to host bad content.
- prabhaav 8y agoThe message data is encrypted client side and stored in a cloud service of your choice (dropbox, s3, google, azure: default). We don't host any data, it's stored in the users data store; the user controls all their data.
- voxadam 8y agoWould it be possible to shard the encrypted data across multiple backends (e.g. across multiple providers or across multiple accounts on a single service)? It might be useful/interesting/fun to use erasure coding to increase redundancy and availibiliy.
- prabhaav 8y agoYes, people can redundantly shard their data to multiple cloud storage services. We plan on offering such a service if there is demand for it.
- ac4tw 8y agoWhen Prabhaav mentions it's encrypted client side, we should elaborate and also mention that it's encrypted such that we can't see it, so we have no way of knowing if you are transacting illegal content. An interesting architectural point is that because you as the user choose your storage provider, you are essentially hosting bad content along with your storage provider. We and Blockstack simply provide you with a means of transporting your data to others without getting in the middle.