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This is not true.

We (Space Monkey) intend to make the device usable on its own, without the Space Monkey service, for people who purchase the device and don't want to continue the service. It's unc…

No. Although being a distributed network with similar reliability and availability and performance requirements, there are some similar technologies/approaches at play.

There won't be hundreds of copies. A device may back up data to hundreds of other devices in total, though. Space Monkey data will be resilient to considerably more than 3 nodes fa…

These are totally valid concerns. The average home internet upload cap, especially in the US, is not very generous. But the idea with Space Monkey is that most of your ongoing data…

(a) I think that's the same problem that all consumer devices have that "phone home" for updates; game consoles, TiVos, smart TVs, VoIP phone adapters, etc. (b) If all you need is …

Yeah, Space Monkey is a business, and we hope to be able to make at least some money off the whole deal in the end. But also yes, there are nontrivial ongoing costs to keeping the …

The encryption is done on the device. Other people's devices (obviously) won't have your encryption key, but since Space Monkey will have a web interface to get at your files, you …

The whole terabyte is yours. The device has extra capacity to account for the rest.

...a competently engineered Turing Machine can do everything NoSQL databases can, particularly limited databases like MongoDB. ... Emacs is just as fast as NoSQL du jour in the han…

They sound like they should be, right? Mozy did storage, EMC did storage? But as a Mozy employee during the time of the acquisition, I'd like to state for the record how emphatical…

It's not dissimilar to the legal ramifications of browsing HN, then. Look, encrypted data! xQq84/+wpysSnUveVUX6592sHzGBptxysvtginJr2OFkDifXYtNCFg==

I submit that you're probably screwed anyway in those countries and/or jurisdictions, whether or not you have someone else's unreadable contraband. :) In fact, here's an exercise. …

This is one of the most straightforward possible applications for cryptography in data storage- no worries about key negotiation or cipher negotiation or PKI infrastructures. And y…

It's not exactly clear from the paper what CA should mean. I've seen people claim it means "you guarantee both consistency and availability, as long as there are no network partiti…

" Many concurrent algorithms are very easy to write with a GC and totally hard (to down right impossible) using explicit free." This is not the same as: " All concurrent algorithms…

A good way to support said finance reform is to follow Lessig's recommendation ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/on-the-signifi... ) and help out Buddy Roemer's campa…

Er, 2012 - 1996 = 16, not 17? I feel old already. I don't want to get charged for the extra year.

Macros were also the reason I wrote Noodle, which was a similar effort (Lisp compiling to Python bytecode) back around 2004. The project died when I couldn't figure out sane, easy-…