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Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed

Posted by kdawson on from the here's-to-you-my-rambling-laptop dept.

gbickford writes "Adeona, the first open source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop, was featured on Slashdot last year. I was stoked when I read about how it worked and I installed it immediately. I just went to look for updates on the site and was greeted with a giant warning message stating, 'Adeona is currently not working.' It seems that OpenDHT, the distributed hash table that stores the location information and photos, has been fairly unstable lately. The developers claim that this is "largely because the back-end OpenDHT system is not able to tolerate the load imposed by Adeona. OpenDHT removed the need for a centralized database with tracking information, which in effect prevents a 3rd party from tracking a user's whereabouts. OpenDHT was Sean Rhea's Ph.D. project back in 2005 and he has decided to officially bow out of maintaining it as of July 1st, which has left the developers of Adeona looking for another back end to store location information and photos. The source code for Adeona is available and they are actively seeking developer contributions on the developer's list. Do any developers have ideas on where to put scads of information in a free, reliable, anonymous, and secure manner?"

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  1. Here's an idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Post the information in anonymous Slashdot comments!

    1. Re:Here's an idea... by RuBLed · · Score: 4, Funny

      I save my files in 127.0.0.1 and that site is fast. It's also secure btw, I asked my friend to access 127.0.0.1 and he cannot see my files. Also whenever I try to access 127.0.0.1, it's reliable and always there. I never leave my basement though.

    2. Re:Here's an idea... by jonaskoelker · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, it wouldn't be such a horrible idea*.

      Just come up with an RSA keypair and store it on all your machines. Encrypt and sign all data you want to store "in the cloud", and find someone who will store it for you.

      * Slashdot might object to this and delete your post. I recommend using Reed-Solomon coding (or some other error-correcting code) and storing your data redundantly on several sites.

      You could also do mirrored RAIF (Redudant Array of Indepedent Forums), though it might be rife for puns. And RAIP, where P=Posts, would be ripe for them. (Someone's gonna RAIP my karma for that, but the puns and anagrams form such a FAIR PAIR...)