Comment Re:There is a solution to this (Score 0) 448
It sounds like a platform for technical advancement, but not anything with a practical/marketable/legal application in the current vision.
The main uses I can think of would appeal mainly to criminal/terrorist elements.
Ultimately there are two major problems. The first is legal. I can assure you that I, for one, will not volunteer to share out any of my storage to host anonymous encrypted data. Whether or not the files are stored in whole, the law in most places would not take kindly to the pleas of people who willfully signed up to distribute content that is either illegal or copyrighted.
Second, the target demographic is just too small. Most people aren't going to go to this kind of an extreme for security. Precisely because storage is so abundant and reasonably good encryption is so readily available, there is neither the motivation to try to "borrow" storage from a massive peer network nor the perception that additional security in needed.
Third, the weakest component in any security system is attached to the keyboard. I'm in the IT dept of a multi-billion dollar company. I can't get systems administrators and developers to stop writing down passwords, using username=password, shouting passwords across open rooms, and checking 'password never expires'. These are the IT people. By and large, people don't care about security.
Fourth, network infrastructure is still very fragile. The issues with undersea cables illustrates this. Yes, it's getting better, but reliability is not where it needs to be.
Fifth, as an enterprise tool (vs. the massive internet peer network)I'm not going to use this for all of the reasons stated in this thread. Trying to mine unused disk space across distributed systems is just not worth it.
The main uses I can think of would appeal mainly to criminal/terrorist elements.
Ultimately there are two major problems. The first is legal. I can assure you that I, for one, will not volunteer to share out any of my storage to host anonymous encrypted data. Whether or not the files are stored in whole, the law in most places would not take kindly to the pleas of people who willfully signed up to distribute content that is either illegal or copyrighted.
Second, the target demographic is just too small. Most people aren't going to go to this kind of an extreme for security. Precisely because storage is so abundant and reasonably good encryption is so readily available, there is neither the motivation to try to "borrow" storage from a massive peer network nor the perception that additional security in needed.
Third, the weakest component in any security system is attached to the keyboard. I'm in the IT dept of a multi-billion dollar company. I can't get systems administrators and developers to stop writing down passwords, using username=password, shouting passwords across open rooms, and checking 'password never expires'. These are the IT people. By and large, people don't care about security.
Fourth, network infrastructure is still very fragile. The issues with undersea cables illustrates this. Yes, it's getting better, but reliability is not where it needs to be.
Fifth, as an enterprise tool (vs. the massive internet peer network)I'm not going to use this for all of the reasons stated in this thread. Trying to mine unused disk space across distributed systems is just not worth it.
