Comments on: Wherever you go, that’s where the edge is. http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/06/wherever-you-go-thats-where-the-edge-is/ Casual Dismissals from Danny O'Brien Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Marc Resibois http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/06/wherever-you-go-thats-where-the-edge-is/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Marc Resibois Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:51:38 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1006#comment-139 Seems like Azustek things just the contrary... not that I think I would ever use that kind of service but I thought it was funny both your post and that news came to me 5 minutes apart: http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20080807PD213.html Marc Seems like Azustek things just the contrary… not that I think I would ever use that kind of service but I thought it was funny both your post and that news came to me 5 minutes apart:

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20080807PD213.html

Marc

]]> By: Terrell http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/06/wherever-you-go-thats-where-the-edge-is/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Terrell Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:25:12 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1006#comment-137 Ian's right - we need to get Tahoe working and running in our pockets. Distributed, encrypted filesystem with access from anywhere. It's got backups built in - and recovery is always an option. http://allmydata.org Just don't lose your keys to the kingdom. Terrell Ian’s right – we need to get Tahoe working and running in our pockets. Distributed, encrypted filesystem with access from anywhere. It’s got backups built in – and recovery is always an option.

http://allmydata.org

Just don’t lose your keys to the kingdom.

Terrell

]]> By: Ian Brown http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/06/wherever-you-go-thats-where-the-edge-is/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Ian Brown Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:08:49 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1006#comment-136 You can of course get the benefits of both — keeping the authoritative versions of private data encrypted in the cloud, and syncing those with local copies of files whenever you have connectivity. What you then need are trusted applications and keys on a smartcard or some other trustworthy device (for now that probably means your own laptop) that you can use wherever you jack in. I talked a couple of years ago at a Dutch Data Protection Commission conference about the<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/blogzilla/privacy-and-online-data-storage/" rel="nofollow">idea</a> of Web apps that stored data encrypted and only decrypted at the client. That still needs a way to verify the apps aren't quietly stealing your data. You can of course get the benefits of both — keeping the authoritative versions of private data encrypted in the cloud, and syncing those with local copies of files whenever you have connectivity. What you then need are trusted applications and keys on a smartcard or some other trustworthy device (for now that probably means your own laptop) that you can use wherever you jack in.

I talked a couple of years ago at a Dutch Data Protection Commission conference about theidea of Web apps that stored data encrypted and only decrypted at the client. That still needs a way to verify the apps aren’t quietly stealing your data.

]]> By: Lee Maguire http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/06/wherever-you-go-thats-where-the-edge-is/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Lee Maguire Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:46:48 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1006#comment-135 We're doomed to keep inventing variations on SMTP and NNTP, aren't we? Back in the pre-FRIACO days of the UK net we experienced that slow (and expensive!) connectivity. Email came in QWK packets, Usenet in SOUP - and everything was read in a mode we used to call "offline". Interestingly the situation again forces an economic question; this time the dollar-value of privacy. For any particular file how much am I prepared to pay to keep it personal (since "public" just keeps getting cheaper). "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds We’re doomed to keep inventing variations on SMTP and NNTP, aren’t we? Back in the pre-FRIACO days of the UK net we experienced that slow (and expensive!) connectivity. Email came in QWK packets, Usenet in SOUP – and everything was read in a mode we used to call “offline”.

Interestingly the situation again forces an economic question; this time the dollar-value of privacy. For any particular file how much am I prepared to pay to keep it personal (since “public” just keeps getting cheaper).

“Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.” — Linus Torvalds

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