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Cringely's P2P Backup Idea

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 12, 2004 @05:57AM from the hey-baby-want-some-backup dept.

gewg_ writes "If Napster and Bit Torrent had a baby, would it Baxter? As a follow-on to Cringely's last column where he talked about having a backup strategy in the wake of Hurricane Frances, this week he proposes a distributed RAID notion as a solution."

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Interesting idea by scoser · 2004-09-12 06:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now the world's porn will be safe forever!
But on the serious side, the claim of using encryption to store data on someone's hard drive worries me. Let's say the encryption gets broken. Now you might get Aunt Nedda's cookie recipes, but then again, you might get BobCo's strategic investment plan for the next 6 months as well. I can see people signing up just for the chance to hunt through people's data.