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The Secure Public Data Repository?

Posted by michael on from the inviting-target dept.

jducoeur writes "So Hailstorm has died an unlamented death. But the demand for the idea of an information repository isn't going to go away -- users demand convenience, and this would be convenient. So here's a timely question looking for wild speculation: how would a truly secure, public data repository work? How would your data be stored? Would it be centralized or distributed? How would you grant access to specific elements within it? What would the business case for running such an archive be? Maybe if we can come up with a good design now, we can head off the next inevitable bad one..."

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  1. Ocean Store by nweaver · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Oceanstore project at Berkeley is aiming to do just that: create a distributed storage model to provide a global, distributed, persistant storage resource.

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  2. Why don't you ask the users? by Wonko42 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who demands convenience? I don't demand convenience. I *prefer* not having all my eggs in one basket. I like being able to choose which companies get to know which details about me. If I have a hard time keeping track of all my different passwords or user accounts, I'll write my passwords down and store them in a text file that's PGP-encrypted with a 4096-bit key and a passphrase that I know I'll never forget.

    I don't want to have to trust some company to store all my information for me. I also don't want to trust some open source project with that information. In fact, I *especially* don't want to trust an open source project with it. The only person I trust with my personal information is me.

  3. Slashdot Poll Suggestion by Radical+Rad · · Score: 5, Funny

    I demand a centralized repository of my personal information because:

    __ I want every aspect of my personal life to be analyzed.

    __ I believe that all security exploits have already been discovered.

    __ My business is not my own. I submit to my corporate overlords.

    __ It's the only way to prevent another September 11th.

    __ Letting Mozilla's form manager fill in on-line forms is too hard.

    __ I want to be resurrected as a robot after my death based on all my personal info and preferences.

    __ Fashion their record needles into bones for CowbotRAD.

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