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For years I’ve been lamenting the fact that I don’t like Big Corporations controlling my information. Chris Brogan’s post, When Google Owns You, is about someone who’s Google account was shut down with no reasonable explanation. Surfing around I found the following links related to getting our data our of corporate datacenters and back into the cloud where it belongs.
Distributed hash table
p2p hackers list
Tahoe Least-Authorative Filesystem
Allmydata.org Introduction
The Least-Authority Filesystem offers security and fault-tolerance properties far greater than those of other distributed filesystems — in addition to being protected against external attackers, users of Tahoe are protected from the servers themselves, even if some of the servers are malicious, and they are protected from other users, even though they can choose to share specific files or directories with specific users.
Read Welcome to Tahoe. Some of these links are pretty technical but you’ll get the idea that the underpinnings of a system to allow complete control and selectable access to our data is coming soon.
Something like Tahoe and a few thousand blog posts thrown in to sort out the details, is all we need to create a distributed filesystem across the net where we can store our stuff and do with it what we please. No more uploading your new party photo to Facebook, Myspace and Match one at a time. Imagine loading iPhoto and instead of the usual plugins for Facebook having conduits to every place on the net where you store data. Someone emails you a photo from the party last night you want to use as your profile pic? Throw it in iPhoto and push it out to one or more services at the same time.
Want to update your Myspace and Match dating information? Edit in, for example, iPhoto, and push it out to both sites. Simple, safe and secure.
You could even manage your blog comments across the blogosphere and see who is commenting on your comments. No more third party services taking your comments hostage, profiting off of them or blocking free speech. I have a feeling this is the start of something really big. I’m installing Tahoe right now, will report back on the experience.
