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Re:Life in an Internet Shutdown by sjg007 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:35AM (#20866849)
This is sort of the idea behind Piped Piper in Silicon Valley.. Everybody has an app that shares the data with everyone. My guess is that it is striped across the devices.
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Re:Life in an Internet Shutdown by taurath on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:56PM (#20869196)
Has it’s own problems, similar to bitcoin. If you create a bunch of nodes that feed into a warehouse you might end up owning a majority of the data, and have de facto control of the network.

Plus the overuse of device radios, storage etc. 802.11s does great at keeping power low while acting as a pass through, but storing data on the device requires a lot of availability for the device, and duplication has to be done to make sure you can access your stripes. Good for single use messages, bad for anything large.

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Re:Life in an Internet Shutdown by sjg007 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:35AM (#20887058)
There may be a fix to that problem.. need to think about it.
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