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I have no clue what are they doing. My "data", your "data"...it's not here, nor there, it's everywhere.

• isidor13 5y ago
  Kinda like a decentralized Dropbox except the data is actually stored in a virtual container on your machine. That makes it censorship-resistant and cuts away the single point of failure, like ones where outages of Google affect a significant part of the global infrastructure. These containers are encrypted by default and access to them can be shared (key exchange) or be made public. They want to decouple user data from the operating system it's stored on. The goal is making it possible to store different data in different containers (think of them as folders) and being able to clearly define the access to each container. It solves a lot of problems with IT security, since it allows a framework (and in the future a user-friendly interface) for everybody to store their valuable data in very secure containers only they have access to (operating system, secret documents, keys) while running pretty much the rest of their system in isolated containers. This way even if you were to download some malware only the container it's running on would be contaminated, unlike nowadays where the hacker gains access to pretty much your whole storage space. They also define another kind of containers called 'compute manifests' where instances with access can perform computations; as far as I know legacy cloud storages like Google Drive don't allow the user to run executables in them, so that's quite revolutionary.