Re: [OT] decentralized "cloud" storage - Opinions

On 6/27/22 05:02, Soviet_Mario wrote:
> On 26/06/22 23:21, bad sector wrote:
>> On 6/26/22 09:58, Soviet_Mario wrote:
>>> while starting some research about IPFS (interplanetary file system)
>>> I've come across this "project"
>>>
>>> https://wildland.io/
>>>
>>> Does anybody ever heard of ?
>>> If so, what do you think of it ?
>>>
>>> Is it a "trustless" (= no trust needed at all) storage ?
>>>
>>> I'm reading that, while decentralized cloud encrypt and split files and store chunks over PCs elsewhere (I still have to figure out which of the many connected to the net is "eligible" to store : my only previous experience was the SEEDING in bittorrent, which seemed rather unreliable since once one has had enough, they simply stop seeding and parts of files may become unavailable).
>>> But it seems that some central server (to balance the load, to assign bandwidths, track the hashes, assign storage quotas to nodes ... maybe determine if they warrant what they promise by some bonus/malus mechanism) is still needed.
>>>
>>> If that is true, it is not entirely decentralized and "unstoppable" system.
>>>
>>> What do you think of this ?
>>>
>>> Any site to get better documented ?
>>>
>>> TNX
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 1) Resistere, resistere, resistere.
>>> 2) Se tutti pagano le tasse, le tasse le pagano tutti
>>> Soviet_Mario - (aka Gatto_Vizzato)
>>
>> anything stored in a 'cloud' is one step
>> short of a streaming youtube colonoscopy
> 
> 
> sorry I don't very much master humour in English :\
> I'm not sure I've understood it right
> 
> I cannot figure out what a youtube colonoscopy is supposed to be ....

Your _colonscopia_ streaming 7/24 to youtube or other 
portal, can you imagine a more invasive violation of 
your privacy? And please, spare me all the security 
mantras, there isn't a single encryption block that
doesn't have a back door on every wall :-)))
The instant when 'cloud' was invented it was clear
why it was invented.


-- 
Oh Lord of the Keyrings on high, have I got bad news 
for you: the word trust is nowhere to be found in my 
security dictionary.