[Twisted-Python] ANNOUNCING Allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.2

[Nathan]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:12 PM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
>
> With Tahoe, you can distribute your filesystem across a set of
> computers, such that if some of the computers fail or turn out to be
> malicious, the filesystem continues to work from the remaining
> computers.  You can also share your files with other users, using a
> cryptographic capability-based access control scheme.

Sooo, if you had several servers in a country that you were at war
with, you could reliably use them as storage via Tahoe?

/amused -- yes, yes, I know there are other use cases...

~ Nathan