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Isn't it impossible to really delete something from ipfs? I'd think that would make this dangerous, as any security flaw would be impossible to fix retroactivel
by _ea1k 5y ago
Isn't it impossible to really delete something from ipfs? I'd think that would make this dangerous, as any security flaw would be impossible to fix retroactively. Everything before the flaw would be compromised and can't be reencrypted safely.
If a passphrase was lost, the security of every past file would be at risk.
This is what has kept me from approaches like this in the past.
- mrharrison 5y agoYou can unpin it, and it will eventually be removed from other non pinned sources.
- sodality2 5y ago>it will eventually be removed from other non pinned sources Hopefully, though, they unpin it.
- Saris 5y agoYes, that's one reason I'm really not sold on storing private data on IPFS and similar services.
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- exo762 5y agoCan you really delete anything from NSA servers? Or from Internet in general? For me the problem with IPFS is - it is just not interesting enough. It's not a storage solution, it is distribution and caching mechanism. You can't really upload to IPFS, you can only publish via IPFS - the same way you publish via HTTP.
- bananabernhard 5y agoI am quite confident that the NSA does not have a complete image of the encrypted data in my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. With IPFS they wouldn't even have to do anything, if they sometime in the future were able to break the encryption.
- sam0x17 5y agoYeah there's actually powerpoints from the snowden leaks showing how much they ingest per month and how much of that they keep, etc.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoSo how much do they keep?
- exdsq 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A I looked at this briefly for a security module for my MSc and from what I vaguely recall they were tapping roughly half of all data going through AT&T on the West coast