I'm trying to consolidate some of these files in a git-annex repository living on the bsv blockchain. This may or may not work: git clone http://caringneed.org:8000/1FJMa1Ac53zoKg2UrQEnafNqUFSvNRhmaL/git-remote-bsv... npm install -g git-remote-bsv/. git clone bsv://L3zZQetoHkdMrsiEPtZEks1Ct98d56ZLxDBiatLpRBJA7Y1xELyB/exconfidential.git The url is a push url; others can add to it or mess it up. I'm adding some of the stuff but it's likely too much to finish all of it. On Sun, May 24, 2020, 7:00 AM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

If anyone doesn't understand this,

crucial information for making fitbit's safe from hacking and government control is available, and grarpamp is asking everyone to preserve and share it.

I have not found ipfs to be suitable for resisting censorship until somebody migrates the protocol off s/kademlia for finding peers with data, to a shared store like a blockchain or a project focused on solving the problem like gnunet. I believe the underlying system is designed to become pluggable in that way, but I kinda freak out when I look at go source code nowadays =( is there a C/C++ port of ipfs anywhere?

I'll try to upload these things to sia skynet.

On Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:51 PM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

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https://t.me/exconfidential tg://resolve?domain=exconfidential https://t.me/s/exconfidential https://t.me/joinchat/GmSbZRNJpLmmbX07KNfRhw https://git.rip/exconfidential <- cypherpunks:writecode https://t.me/deletescape "This was the easiest leak ever as the code was literally in a zip inside the apk."

https://git.rip/exconfidential/daimler https://mega.nz/file/G1M3AKwJ#C4N6p0pg3GWYketCysvHFGDq-LTeEAJUN9j8lqRSjo4 https://archive.org/details/daimler-olu https://archive.org/download/daimler-olu/daimler-olu_archive.torrent "it's a hardware platform for a very specific usecase, but this leak should allow recreating it with low cost hardware."

Leaks and dumps... become IPFS and Bittorrent mirrors and archivers, index hash reposters... for the fun.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks... lizardfs, ceph, storj, etc

I got a question on how one can "outcompete" without focusing on financial return: an example of the pattern I describe is wikipedia, which has replaced most search results on the internet but has no profit. If your benefit is strong enough you can eventually replace an industry entirely: cloud storage instead of encyclopedias. Note the proposed idea is vulnerable to malicious crucial data change a little more than a blockchain (even if the protocol rejects it, system compromises could alter what is expected), which could be patched by some clients plugging into a blockchain to produce proofs-of-existence for now. On Sun, May 24, 2020, 7:25 AM Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

This is just a small part of outcompeting blockchains, but it's a big one to me. (I'm using here the survival trait of sustaining everyone else giving you community support, to plan the outcompetition.)

If people got together and made a globally usable filesystem using something like ceph, lizardfs, tahoe-lafs ... we could together replace the role of storage history in blockchains. This would help soften the global shock around them, letting more people run nodes and making fewer people need to.

You'd want to make a small patch to the system preventing deletion of important stuff. Siacoin (which I only remember because I use their web interface) actually has enough storage to back thousands of terabytes on FUSE for reasonable cost if we wanted to preserve everything entirely. I would let anybody mark something crucial with some kind of rudimentary spam detection (e.g. low entropy in file, only so much data from single source) to start with, and not let crucial things be deleted by anyone. The open source community that would sprout as usage grew could handle the spam detection breaking.

You'd shift your sense of security such that the ability to write to the filesystem is shared publicly and directly, via e.g. a public private-key.

Once it got going, storage-based chains like storj and siacoin would pay such a network for providing storage.

Any thoughts?

On Sun, 24 May 2020 07:25:04 -0400 Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

This is just a small part of outcompeting blockchains, but it's a big one to me. (I'm using here the survival trait of sustaining everyone else giving you community support, to plan the outcompetition.)

If people got together and made a globally usable filesystem

you mean, like freenet?