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This starts to get my imagination going. What if you would use all kinds of websites, which allow user-submitted data, and encrypt and distribute the content.
by ma2rten 13y ago
This starts to get my imagination going. What if you would use all kinds of websites, which allow user-submitted data, and encrypt and distribute the content. You could create an underground internet hosted unknowingly by other people. You could even encode your data so it looks like real image or natural language data.
- Amadou 13y agoI've been thinking about such a thing for a while now. Imagine a tool that uses DHT (distributed hash tables) for indexing and search plus a set of plugins that speak the protocol for each individual datastor be it dropbox, regular http, flickr, etc. It could include redundancy and maybe even bittorrent as one of the datastors.
- pfortuny 13y agoWell, yes. The fact is you would be at the mercy of minor changes in that data which would make your 'data' worthless. As simple as, for example: 'Next month we are going to transform all our utf-8 fields into utf-32 and we are going to add some padding to your data, for analytics'. You would have to cope with that. Which, honestly, would be a lot of a mess. Distributed mess, also. Something like the proverbial fan & sh*t thing.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoNot really. As long as you build in redundancy. Ie, automatically distribute multiple copies of the same files or blocks over multiple different sites. Yes, all of the sites could make breaking changes at the same time, but then all of the disks in your raid array could die at the same time too... Hence backups.
- jacquesm 13y agoDog-slow-array-of-free-websites. Definitely needs a sexier acronym.
- bambambazooka 13y agoThis could be done with git annex http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/