Everything online is ephemeral. Just look at studies on link rot: http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
For storing the totality of humanity's work, we need to design something more like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault My $0.02, ~T On 8/24/14 12:40 PM, J.M. Porup wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 15:19, taltman wrote: >> I don't know exactly what is meant by "eventuality of digital book >> burning", but here's my opinion on the nuts and bolts of protecting your >> data: > I believe we are approaching a Library of Alexandria moment. We have > created an Information Age in which nothing is secure, and deleting > unwanted information ("thought crime") is trivial. Furthermore, infotech > has redistributed power from the people to the government. It would be > naive to expect this power to go unabused. Totalitarianism is in > the wind. > > 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. > > Jens > > -- > J.M. Porup > www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
