[liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

[taltman]

Everything online is ephemeral. Just look at studies on link rot:

http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs

For storing the totality of humanity's work, we need to design something
more like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

My $0.02,

~T


On 8/24/14 12:40 PM, J.M. Porup wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 15:19, taltman wrote:
>> I don't know exactly what is meant by "eventuality of digital book
>> burning", but here's my opinion on the nuts and bolts of protecting your
>> data:
> I believe we are approaching a Library of Alexandria moment. We have 
> created an Information Age in which nothing is secure, and deleting 
> unwanted information ("thought crime") is trivial. Furthermore, infotech 
> has redistributed power from the people to the government. It would be
> naive to expect this power to go unabused. Totalitarianism is in
> the wind.
>
> If we really want a permanent archive of humanity's work, we 
> need to build some kind of distributed Noah's Ark. Archive.org is
> no good (book depositories are the first to go when the book-burning
> starts), and asking the book-burners at the NSA and GCHQ to guard
> our civilization's store of knowledge is laughable on its face.
>
> Something P2P, maybe blockchain-based, might work. Convincing people
> of the reality and urgency of the threat is another matter.
>
> Jens
>
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> J.M. Porup
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