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Censorship-free distributed storage (using Ethereum & Filecoin)

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• viraptor 6y ago
  I wouldn't rely on that one. As cool as Filecoin is, LE can query who has a given file and chase them and their ISP until they no longer advertise that file. Without secrecy you can't have a censorship-free solution.
  • beambot 6y ago
    The Ethereum smart contract can advertise the file in perpetuity by being memorialized on the blockchain in an irrevocable way
    • viraptor 6y ago
      You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that. At that point Filecoin is not relevant. That's not censorship-free either - the use of Eth network can be banned too. And LE or govs see who to target too.
      • beambot 6y ago
        > You'd have to embed the whole file in the blockchain for that No, you don't. The eth contact can control ownership of and permissions to the Filecoin files. > Eth network can be banned too Banning the entire network is different than granular censorship of individual files > And LE or govs see who to target too. Anonymity is also different from censorship. You are talking about a lot of adjacencies and "what-abouts"... There are at least half a dozen projects in this vein at the moment, so I'll kindly leave the rest as an exercise to the reader
        • viraptor 6y ago
          Eth can't really control filecoin file. Eth nodes are not serving the file. If you go after the nodes which do serve it and remove copies, eth won't have you. Anonymity is different from censorship, but censorship is trivial in networks where you ask "who has this file" and everyone points at the actual nodes which store it, with public IP addresses.
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