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Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by anacrolix » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 10:21 AM UTC

chhs wrote: post #46

imhoguy wrote: post #36

As an active hoarder I think there is problem with "6. Distribution: Packaging it up in torrents, announcing it somewhere, getting people to spread it.". I miss a p2p application with torrent packaging and Kademlia like per-file advertising and discovery, where I could point it to my hefty NAS directory of random things and they could be wired to released torrents. This way we could make torrents live much longer, ev…

I did work on a proof of concept program to accomplish this for my own content library. It would scan a directory to find files and compare them with locally stored metadata. For v2 torrents this is trivial to do via a "pieces root" lookup, for v1 torrents it involves basically checking that each piece matches, and since pieces may not align with the file then it's not possible to guarantee that it's the same file wi…

I have a solution to this, it's the successor to Magnetico.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by patrick451 » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #70

autoexec wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have seen people obviously sharing their entire hard drive on P2P platforms, and it's usually been someone's C drive and a massive security issue. I don't think some clients do enough to make it clear to people that they need to be careful not to share more than they intend to or should.

On modern windows, ideally there are no sensitive files accessible to a user program, because everything should be in the secret store/protectedstorage. Obviously a lot of programs still store cached session keys and passwords in plaintext somewhere in your user directory though...

There's a lot more to be concerned about than session keys and passwords. Tax documents, health records, photos, private journal documents, just to name a few.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by chhs » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 11:07 PM UTC

anacrolix wrote: post #101

chhs wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did work on a proof of concept program to accomplish this for my own content library. It would scan a directory to find files and compare them with locally stored metadata. For v2 torrents this is trivial to do via a "pieces root" lookup, for v1 torrents it involves basically checking that each piece matches, and since pieces may not align with the file then it's not possible to guarantee that it's the same file wi…

I have a solution to this, it's the successor to Magnetico.

Could you please share a link to your solution? I would be interested to take a look