It's a scam, obviously. Just look a the site, it's from late 90', no certificate.
I think it is more of a joke.
You can use /dev/null for unlimited free write only storage
Super Simple Storage Service
151–160 of 166 posts
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#152Perfect for write-only code.
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#153It is all hosted in S3
when you click to buy it takes you here
http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/payments/submit/s4/...
Which is actually a custom 403 page made to look like an old IIS error page. if you put in any url on the domain where the file does not exist you get the same error eg
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#154I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
LS240 drives can superformat HD floppies to 32MB. Lots more potential savings to be had there.
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#155The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
They could be storing to /dev/null. That's a very safe target, nobody can steal our data. Unfortunately it's technically not encrypted at rest.
You can always encrypt it before piping it to /dev/null.
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#156I don't know why I would purchase this service, it looks like it could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts...
Every joke falls dead in this place.
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#157Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#158The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
They could be storing to /dev/null. That's a very safe target, nobody can steal our data. Unfortunately it's technically not encrypted at rest.
A v2 feature might be e2e encryption, seems like that should be feasible
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#159I don't know why I would purchase this service, it looks like it could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts...
> could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts
Well, I see the Dropbox joke here but the service in question is most faithfully replicated with the '> /dev/null' command. Nothing to purchase here.
Re: Super Simple Storage Service
#160If it is write-only, what is the point. what is the cost of reading, what was written?
It's a joke