Adeona Warns of Instability; OpenDHT Mothballed 82
gbickford writes "Adeona, the first open source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop, was featured on Slashdot last year. I was stoked when I read about how it worked and I installed it immediately. I just went to look for updates on the site and was greeted with a giant warning message stating, 'Adeona is currently not working.' It seems that OpenDHT, the distributed hash table that stores the location information and photos, has been fairly unstable lately. The developers claim that this is "largely because the back-end OpenDHT system is not able to tolerate the load imposed by Adeona. OpenDHT removed the need for a centralized database with tracking information, which in effect prevents a 3rd party from tracking a user's whereabouts. OpenDHT was Sean Rhea's Ph.D. project back in 2005 and he has decided to officially bow out of maintaining it as of July 1st, which has left the developers of Adeona looking for another back end to store location information and photos. The source code for Adeona is available and they are actively seeking developer contributions on the developer's list. Do any developers have ideas on where to put scads of information in a free, reliable, anonymous, and secure manner?"
Here's an idea... (Score:4, Funny)
Post the information in anonymous Slashdot comments!
"Do any developers have ideas on where to put (Score:4, Funny)
scads of information in a free, reliable, anonymous, and secure manner?"
there's 4 criteria there. take away free, and you can get the other 3 criteria. leave in the word "free," and you can only have 1 of the other 3 criteria
Re:"Do any developers have ideas on where to put (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here's an idea... (Score:4, Funny)
Actually , that could be done , however , the problem is that someone visiting slashdot with a browser , and posting on it, would be able to corrupt the data.
So we need to way to ensure that only the program can post , and nothing else.
Perhaps it can be done by storing the data in first posts : The program would be fast enough to put a post first , and if not , we know what 90% of the first posts will look like , so we can filter those out.
Re:Here's an idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Safe huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here's an idea... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it wouldn't be such a horrible idea*.
Just come up with an RSA keypair and store it on all your machines. Encrypt and sign all data you want to store "in the cloud", and find someone who will store it for you.
* Slashdot might object to this and delete your post. I recommend using Reed-Solomon coding (or some other error-correcting code) and storing your data redundantly on several sites.
You could also do mirrored RAIF (Redudant Array of Indepedent Forums), though it might be rife for puns. And RAIP, where P=Posts, would be ripe for them. (Someone's gonna RAIP my karma for that, but the puns and anagrams form such a FAIR PAIR...)