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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