[liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

[Miles Fidelman]

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 04:40:26PM -0300, J.M. Porup wrote:
>> 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.
>

The library community has the right term for this:  LOCKSS (Lots of 
copies keeps stuff safe).

Miles Fidelman

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