Look at the code and there's a key difference to notice. While people may be completely retarded with their personal files, putting them on goolag drive or similar centralized service they don't control, for "convenience" it should be said that doing so is exactly like keeping your gold in someone else's vault.
Then there's local storage, anything you put on a secure encrypted disk at home is under your control and secure. But here's another problem, disks are sensitive to damage. If your house burns down you can usually recover any gold you hide in your mattress or your safe, just needs to move all the trash first. A disk on the other hand is destroyed.
Now with crypto and blockchains you'll get decentralized and distributed encrypted storage for your files. This means that your data is synchronized across many disks spread over the world and you're in control thanks to your key, which you can make backup copies of.
Now this solves the recovery issue. If you're out with your boat and have your gold with you, then your boat sinks at the deepest spot in the ocean, you'll know where your gold is, but you can never recover it. With crypto you may have a backup key somewhere else which allow you to access your coins, even if one of your keys sunk with the boat.
Those who want to control you will do anything to convince you that "it's a scam", in reality it's a tool you can use to take back control over what's yours. We can control physical items we own, why not have full control over digital items too.
You understand that data must reside somewhere, right?
So does every physical object, storage disks are just more sensitive then many physical objects but in return offers the ability to keep multiple copies of it's data. This is about fire safety, safety from theft or similar unforeseen events. Tell me, how do you protect physical objects, why why exactly if that method better than the methods you use to store digital data?
In order to accomplish this they end up on servers
You do understand that a server is just a computer, you can own a computer and you can own the property where said computer is stored. Tell me, how exactly do you store your files today? do you keep everything local or do you use "the cloud".
Do you honestly believe that data is free from scrutiny when it passes thru servers owned by NOT YOU?
Do you think your physical items are safe, when anyone at any time could easily break into your home through the door or a window and steal whatever they want. And the only protection at best will be you holding a gun, what if there's 10 of them and you're alone, pop, you're dead, now they take anything they want.
"but its encrypted"
Try brute force your way through AES-256 bit encryption, that's 2²⁵⁶ keys that you need to test. They have not cracked all encryption algorithms, that's pure and simple propaganda. What they do is to obtain the key, because obtaining the key is like stealing the gold you keep in your safe. See above once again, 10 armed burglars walks in, pop, you're dead, boom now you're safe is blown open and there is your gold, and your encryption key.
You think they'll build a billion dollar cluster just to steal your personal files? which won't be enough to crack the encryption in a billion years anyway. Keep dreaming. Besides, cryptocurrency can be forked from any any block and a new encryption algorithm put in place. If they ever cracked the encryption used by a cryptocurrency and started to steal coins, a majority would agree to reverse the chain, fork and put in place a different algorithm that has not yet been cracked.
SOP --> if man can make it, man can unmake it.
Wrong, you forgot the control aspect. If man can't control it, man can't change it. Oh an you forgot to answer the main question, what's your opinion on amazon S3 in comparison of blockchain based object storage if you had to use either one to backup your files.
Look at the code and there's a key difference to notice. While people may be completely retarded with their personal files, putting them on goolag drive or similar centralized service they don't control, for "convenience" it should be said that doing so is exactly like keeping your gold in someone else's vault.
Then there's local storage, anything you put on a secure encrypted disk at home is under your control and secure. But here's another problem, disks are sensitive to damage. If your house burns down you can usually recover any gold you hide in your mattress or your safe, just needs to move all the trash first. A disk on the other hand is destroyed.
Now with crypto and blockchains you'll get decentralized and distributed encrypted storage for your files. This means that your data is synchronized across many disks spread over the world and you're in control thanks to your key, which you can make backup copies of.
Now this solves the recovery issue. If you're out with your boat and have your gold with you, then your boat sinks at the deepest spot in the ocean, you'll know where your gold is, but you can never recover it. With crypto you may have a backup key somewhere else which allow you to access your coins, even if one of your keys sunk with the boat.
Those who want to control you will do anything to convince you that "it's a scam", in reality it's a tool you can use to take back control over what's yours. We can control physical items we own, why not have full control over digital items too.
So in your world, this project for instance: https://www.storj.io/ is a scam. But Amazon S3 is not a scam? explain that please.
So does every physical object, storage disks are just more sensitive then many physical objects but in return offers the ability to keep multiple copies of it's data. This is about fire safety, safety from theft or similar unforeseen events. Tell me, how do you protect physical objects, why why exactly if that method better than the methods you use to store digital data?
You do understand that a server is just a computer, you can own a computer and you can own the property where said computer is stored. Tell me, how exactly do you store your files today? do you keep everything local or do you use "the cloud".
Do you think your physical items are safe, when anyone at any time could easily break into your home through the door or a window and steal whatever they want. And the only protection at best will be you holding a gun, what if there's 10 of them and you're alone, pop, you're dead, now they take anything they want.
Try brute force your way through AES-256 bit encryption, that's 2²⁵⁶ keys that you need to test. They have not cracked all encryption algorithms, that's pure and simple propaganda. What they do is to obtain the key, because obtaining the key is like stealing the gold you keep in your safe. See above once again, 10 armed burglars walks in, pop, you're dead, boom now you're safe is blown open and there is your gold, and your encryption key.
You think they'll build a billion dollar cluster just to steal your personal files? which won't be enough to crack the encryption in a billion years anyway. Keep dreaming. Besides, cryptocurrency can be forked from any any block and a new encryption algorithm put in place. If they ever cracked the encryption used by a cryptocurrency and started to steal coins, a majority would agree to reverse the chain, fork and put in place a different algorithm that has not yet been cracked.
Wrong, you forgot the control aspect. If man can't control it, man can't change it. Oh an you forgot to answer the main question, what's your opinion on amazon S3 in comparison of blockchain based object storage if you had to use either one to backup your files.