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What if they claim publicly to delete your data, accept decentralized payments to delete the data, actually delete that data on the node in the sense that nobod
by MichaelBurge 6y ago
What if they claim publicly to delete your data, accept decentralized payments to delete the data, actually delete that data on the node in the sense that nobody can retrieve the data on the public internet using any official protocols, but routinely take filesystem-snapshots of their servers and the owner browses them offline undetectably at their leisure?
Then 3 years later all the snapshots end up on a torrent site, after you paid that whole time to "delete data".
- ahnick 6y agoYes, I think that is a risk in the absence of a true "Proof of Deletion". Perhaps though it would be so expensive to maintain a copy of all this data that no one is paying you for that nodes would be incentivized to just perform the actual deletion, since the rewards of keeping the data are unknown and the time horizon for maintaining that data at your own expense is unknown.