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Peer to peer backup? Reminds me too much of Skype Supernodes. The premise is sound but in reality you're paying $10 a month to help distribute other people's da
by notum 14y ago
Peer to peer backup? Reminds me too much of Skype Supernodes.
The premise is sound but in reality you're paying $10 a month to help distribute other people's data via your own bandwidth? This goes both ways, of course, but how long until someone finds a way to make their SpaceMonkey exclusively a network leecher, only fragmenting owner's backup but not delivering other people's data?
I could be entirely wrong, of course, someone correct me please.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoDoesn't need to be "hacked" - you just need to constantly churn your 1TB while someone else puts 500MB up and adds a photo a month. Effectively you are leeching. Correct me if I am wriong but this is storing data as torrents and each device is a torrent client and store box?
- notum 14y agoYou're right. People could do that to save their upload bandwidth, because unless you route your network through the device it can't know how much of your bandwidth it's stealing and if you're currently using it etc. I suspect most of the target audience doesn't have QoS properly setup in their routers. I'm not sure how valid the torrent analogy is in this case.