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From: rwash at citi.umich.edu (Rick Wash) Subject: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:03:20PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote: > So who cares? Why juggle when shelves hold so much more? Just because you and I don't have a use for this doesn't make it useless. This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is easy to delete large amounts of data quickly. Imagine you hear the feds knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light (aka your data) fly out into the room. Your data is gone, permanently. If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete everything -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations. Show me another method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner that quickly. Hard drives need to be overwritten many times, but even then they can still likely be recovered with enough money put toward it. Rick
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