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Is it just me, or does Vanish sound completely impractical?

• bensummers 17y ago
  To stop a deletion, you would have to get everyone who has a part of the file on their computer to preserve it. Since there are a large number of unrelated parties running these computers, and the uploader can choose which to use when uploading, an attacker trying to prevent deletion will have quite a lot of fun convincing all these people to cooperate. I was skeptical at first too. But it might just work in practice.
• tedunangst 17y ago
  Approximately one hour after Vanish catches on, the hottest new firefox plugin is going to be "Vanish Key Preserver" that archives the keys needed to decrypt every Facebook photo you look at.