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Tim Cook wrote:
> However, there's a practical difference between possible files and files
> that actually exist.
Notionally, of all the 4GB files that can hypothetically exist, only a
vanishingly tiny fraction of them will ever exist in our universe. Even
assuming that every star system in the entire observable universe has a
sentiant lifeform that has built binary computers with secondary storing
using file-based organisation...
...and yet, you can still create any such file you want. Weird, isn't it?
> And, to a certain extent, a central database of
> files and their associated hashes would allow client computers to just
> have the hash, and ask the server for the associated file.
>
> ...leaving the central server vulnerable, defeating the notion of
> widespread data redundancy.
>
> XD
Yay, destruction! :-D
Also: Isn't this almost exactly what Amazon S3 could be considered to be
doing? (Or, in fact, The Internet as a whole?)
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