I agree, and they aren't exactly fast. Remember that most of us have an upstream speed of less than 1Mb/s, so uploading data, either initially or at recovery time (because, let's face it, if this is a backup, the moment you realise you need your backup is 10 minutes before you realised you needed your backup).
I think writing something that can provide a fully Free as in Freedom replacement for something like Dropbox or Ubuntu One on a cheap webhost (which ultimately means PHP/MySQL or PHP/File) using PGP/GPG encryption on the files before upload would give us a much better starting point (and potentially, given the right license - I'd suggest APGL, a marketable product in the same way StatusNet has identi.ca and Status.net hosted solutions) This also would solve the "I need to backup my files" as ultimately, what I need to backup is my photos, or my web portfolio, or my presentations. I've written a few PHP scripts in the past, so I'd be happy to be involved in writing some of the back-end, but the main place I have no clue about is at the front end or a daemon service monitoring file changes and shipping them off to the right destinations. As I've been writing this, there's no reason why, if we write the components as a FaiF solution, then aspects of the code can be modularized - the daemon and front end can talk different back-end protocols, like to the PHP/MySQL service I've suggested, over TOR to the PHP/MySQL service, to a Freenet stored file or something new. What do you think? -- Jon "TheNiceGuy" Spriggs On 24 Jul 2010 09:24, "Simon Greenwood" <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: On 24 July 2010 09:04, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace < matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sat, ... Examples of distributed storage exist all ready - The Freenet Project[1] has been going for ten years and offers encrypted, distributed and non-attributable storage. It was based partially on the old adage that the Internet routes around problems, particularly in reference to regimes of censorship and the bits stored on your machine are pieces of a file rather than complete files, so you're not actually storing anything that can be identified. Simon -- BBC 6 Music saved! http://www.love6music.com My CV: http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonfgreenwood Twitter: @sfgreenwood -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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