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Imagine your data gets cached on a Starlink satellite and it dies... then future people find the satellite and see your info.

by ge96 4y ago

shaklee3 4y ago
there is no cache. it's an analog repeater.
xur17 4y ago
What??
p1mrx 4y ago
Dead Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere within a decade... and why are you sending your data unencrypted over the internet?
- ge96 4y ago
  Ahh yeah, have this archaeology fantasy like my data lives on in space somewhere but yeah forgot about the LEO atmosphere drag bit.
  - p1mrx 4y ago
    You'd have better luck with a GEO satellite like HughesNet, but I'd be surprised if any of them cache user data in nonvolatile storage.
    - ge96 4y ago
      Yeah I wonder if there will be a service like "send your data into space" which sounds equally stupid (use radio waves) but yeah... just longevity woes (sculpt a rock and burry it). Some of my code is in the arctic vault though a piece of crap Todo List.
martyvis 4y ago
Imagine your data gets on a server in the cloud and it dies (gets replicated/replaced/decommissioned ...) What's special about satellites (and how much caching are they gonna do) and why are you worried about data you have chosen to send in the clear over a network you don't own?
- ge96 4y ago
  Oh I wasn't implying I was worried about it. It was an indirect reference to a Cowboy Bebop episode (sentient satellite they connect to from decades ago). Don't worry I'm not an Elon hater
mlindner 4y ago
There's so many levels of wrong in this post I don't know where to begin. Data isn't being cached. Encrypted data doesn't help anything. It's a flying network router. If you're worried about "cached" data, then don't use the internet (don't actually worry because routers don't substantially cache either).
- ge96 4y ago
  I said in another comment of mine that I didn't care about it being cached. I wanted it to be there "cached" to be remembered. Like a fragment of data (my data) found that exists long after I'm gone. The satellite is like a piece of debris/wreckage which someone pointed out it would have deorbited anyway at some point.

Imagine your data gets cached on a Starlink satellite and it dies... then future people find the satellite and see your info.

by ge96 4y ago

Imagine your data gets cached on a Starlink satellite and it dies... then future people find the satellite and see your info.

shaklee3 4y ago

there is no cache. it's an analog repeater.

xur17 4y ago

What??

p1mrx 4y ago

Dead Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere within a decade... and why are you sending your data unencrypted over the internet?

ge96 4y ago
Ahh yeah, have this archaeology fantasy like my data lives on in space somewhere but yeah forgot about the LEO atmosphere drag bit.
- p1mrx 4y ago
  You'd have better luck with a GEO satellite like HughesNet, but I'd be surprised if any of them cache user data in nonvolatile storage.
  - ge96 4y ago
    Yeah I wonder if there will be a service like "send your data into space" which sounds equally stupid (use radio waves) but yeah... just longevity woes (sculpt a rock and burry it). Some of my code is in the arctic vault though a piece of crap Todo List.

martyvis 4y ago

Imagine your data gets on a server in the cloud and it dies (gets replicated/replaced/decommissioned ...) What's special about satellites (and how much caching are they gonna do) and why are you worried about data you have chosen to send in the clear over a network you don't own?

ge96 4y ago
Oh I wasn't implying I was worried about it. It was an indirect reference to a Cowboy Bebop episode (sentient satellite they connect to from decades ago). Don't worry I'm not an Elon hater

mlindner 4y ago

There's so many levels of wrong in this post I don't know where to begin. Data isn't being cached. Encrypted data doesn't help anything. It's a flying network router. If you're worried about "cached" data, then don't use the internet (don't actually worry because routers don't substantially cache either).

ge96 4y ago
I said in another comment of mine that I didn't care about it being cached. I wanted it to be there "cached" to be remembered. Like a fragment of data (my data) found that exists long after I'm gone. The satellite is like a piece of debris/wreckage which someone pointed out it would have deorbited anyway at some point.