schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1322arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-link‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareNatanael@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoI2P already did that with their DHT network (remember DHT?). I2P Bote uses that for messaging
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoEh, no. A DHT doesn’t solve offline storage of data, when the source node is already offline, and the target node is not yet online.
minus-squareNatanael@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoIt does temporarily, on the order of hours to days. It’s not designed to use the network for long term storage, just message passing
I2P already did that with their DHT network (remember DHT?). I2P Bote uses that for messaging
Eh, no. A DHT doesn’t solve offline storage of data, when the source node is already offline, and the target node is not yet online.
It does temporarily, on the order of hours to days. It’s not designed to use the network for long term storage, just message passing