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Re: [circle] circle idea - backup


From: Jiri Baum
Subject: Re: [circle] circle idea - backup
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:13:38 +1000
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> >Indeed, one can even think of that kind of thing as primary storage:
> >sort of like the MS idea that data will be "out there on the net",
> >but instead of being on MS servers, they would be on all other
> >people's machines. However, it'd probably be unnecessarily slow for
> >everyday use.

lizby:
> Not to mention being incredibly attractive to hackers...  You could
> expect any and every security flaw in the software to be exploited in
> record time.

Admittedly that's more a worry with centralized servers than distributed
ones...

In any case, though, the assumption is that the data will be encrypted
before it's sent out to the net. This means that the network itself does
not need to be secure (indeed, it may be public), and the only point of
security would be the user's own box - which it is anyway.

So this feature poses no additional security problem.


Jiri
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