[Noisebridge-discuss] Tahoe-LAFS Grid Creation Party

Brian Morris cymraegish at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 01:52:07 UTC 2011


Nathan, both classrooms are reserved on Wednesday eves for ongoing groups,
unless you have worked something out with them, then you should probably say
it so that people are not disrupted. See the Noisebridge Wiki please.

The only rule at Noisebridge is to be excellent to each other.




On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Nathan <nejucomo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Announcing:
>
> What: Tahoe-LAFS Grid Creation Party
> Where: Noisebridge, in the Turing Classroom
> When: Wednesday, the 29th, starting at 19:00.
>
>
> I'd like to invite anyone interested in attending a Grid Creation
> Party for Tahoe-LAFS.
>
> This is an open source, (mostly) decentralized file storage system
> which lets you take advantage of network storage resources without
> trusting the storage devices.  It has some advantages over the simple
> "encrypt on top of a cloud storage service" approach:
>
> There is no one organization you must trust for availability.  What if
> CloudHype, Inc, decides to yank all of your encrypted blobs?  This
> also implies it is resistant to DOS and deletion attacks, while
> providing integrity that more common alternatives, such as sneakernet
> or rsync/http(s) mirrors, lack.  How do you know that mirror isn't
> serving you code injections or subtly altered content?
>
> There is a fine-grained access control model that makes sharing
> convenient while maintaining security.  The sharing and security
> properties are (hopefully) intuitive:  Share a URL.
>
>
> So come install it, hack it, break it, propose better alternative
> designs, build decentralized secure storage support into your favorite
> app.
>
>
> I've updated the events section on the wiki to advertise this event.
> I'll stop by the membership meeting next week to give a recap of this
> email and listen for concerns.  Feedback, concerns, haiku, suggestions
> welcome.
>
> Could someone with google calendar access add this event?  That would
> be much appreciated.
>
>
> Nathan
>
>
> links:
>
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge - You may have heard of it?
>
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/ - The project page.
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