Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash 79
An anonymous reader writes "Dumpster Drive is a file-sharing application that recycles digital files. Using dumpster diving as a model for recirculating unwanted objects, Dumpster Drive allows others to dig through files that you delete on your computer in a passive file-sharing network. Instead of simply erasing data from your computer, the software allows users to extend the lifecycle of their unwanted files and pass them on to others." Not sure how useful this is, but I think it's a neat idea.
Security Risk? (Score:3)
n.t.
Re:Security Risk? (Score:4, Insightful)
maybe the idea is that you could say to the riaa cops that you didn't share the file, you deleted it..
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I don't know, it just sounds like a trojan horse out trolling for personal data.
All I have to say is (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:All I have to say is (Score:4, Funny)
Re:All I have to say is (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not so far removed from reality. Kazaa users often used to share their whole hard drives.
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Kazaa would actually share all your documents by default, it has been a major problem on government systems.
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It was great-- the idea that I could share every bit of obscure music that I had with anyone that was interested... and vice versa. I remember days where I would only listen to music that came up when I'd type "drunk" or "rickety" or something into the search bar. Good times. It never occurred to me at the time ('99 maybe?) that it would be a security risk
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Oh, I get it. Check the site, it's a Apple only thing. That actually makes sense in a lot of ways.
How long before they put the kibosh on this Apple-only thing?
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Why would they delete that? Wouldn't you rather find the accidentally downloaded straight porn that was deleted?
Re:All I have to say is (Score:5, Funny)
So it's a surefire way to find lots of show tunes and gay porn.
No, no. You've got it wrong. This will contain things that Apple-users delete.
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So it's a surefire way to find lots of show tunes and gay porn.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
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Oh, I get it. Check the site, it's a Apple only thing. That actually makes sense in a lot of ways.
Because Apple users never do anything confidential or top secret? And they anthropomorphify their data and don't want to "kill it" and this will let the nice little bits and bytes "live on"?
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Unless you were trying to be funny, in which case I completely agree.
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Yea. Now that Apple is strongly interlinked with Big Media, i am surprised that they do not remove copy as a easily available file action to promote treating files as more physical. Perhaps with a special "xerox" icon for copying, complete with a cop or lawyer next to it that gives a thumb up or down on the legality of making a copy of that file.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
A Recycle bin that means it.
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Written with 83% post-consumer ASCII chars
I didn't think it was April (Score:1)
Isn't this about 3 and a half months too late?
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Information (Score:2)
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Well, they say "information wants to be free" and I've never heard "information wants to be permanently deleted".
I have emo information.
No (Score:1)
At the risk of sounding cynical
There is absolutely NO WAY that this is real. It's got to be a hoax.
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Furthermore,
If this is actually real, anyone who uses this has to be absolutely, terminally and utterly Fucking Retarded.
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This must be full of bad porn (Score:2)
This must be full of bad porn and sensitive documents.
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Yeah, I want a copy too.
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Well, if one shreds documents properly, it should be full of cryptographically secure random numbers.
Re:This must be full of bad porn (Score:4, Funny)
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I embed my sensitive data in porn.
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I embed sensitive porn into bad documents. It livens them up quite a bit.
Can't tell if trolling... (Score:2)
...or just really stupid.
Surreptitious file sharing (Score:2)
We already have that. (Score:2)
We already have one of those.
It's called the Internet.
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Not for general use! (Score:1)
This is only for files you feel have no use and have no relation to yourself, personally.
You'd have to be stupid to want to replace your recycle bin with this. (which it doesn't, well, SHOULDN'T, NOT EVEN AN OPTION FOR IT)
For people who collect random crap from the net and feel like sharing it on, bham, drag it in the recyclenet and be happy someone else might find SOME use for the file.
If not, then you should feel bad for saving it. Yes, that porn too.
I wonder how big this could get to becoming a large d
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I wonder how big this could get to becoming a large distributed file server.
It doesn't work that way, once someone downloads a file it is removed from the network.
Not sure how useful it is (Score:2)
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Perhaps software is better when you can serve somebody a legal summons for malfeasance.
You Know What Dumpster Diving Is For, Right? (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe it's a generational thing, but the /. summary writer seems to have missed the point of why people (used to) dumpster dive: collect intelligence that could be used AGAINST the divee. I'd LOVE to pick through other people's stuff, but I'll be GD'ed if I'm going to reciprocate. The crap I delete includes material nearly as valuable in terms of PII, PI, and IP as the stuff I keep on my drives, whether home or office.
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Perhaps so. Let's install this tool on *your* system. Maybe there's more value to be found.
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I'll grant your general point, with a couple of footnotes: 1) to make the *diver's* life better, which may be a neutral or positive social good, and 2) it's the 0.01% that I'm worried about.
That 0.01% can be a real MFer, utterly negating the positive social effects of encouraging someone to sort through my trash, physical or virtual. I already shred the physical stuff I'm concerned about, but I'm not yet sold on the utility of taking time to sort the virtual.
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i remember dumpster diving.. many years ago.. always went to one where there was this really bad computer repair shop.. they had a large customer base because they had no competition for a long time. anyways their techs had the the mentality of just replace and throw away and make the customer pay for it.. i never once found a bad part in that dumpster except ones that had been smashed by other things falling into it
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Speak for yourself. Those of us who were not in the blackmail business did it to scrounge valuable junk.
I wouldn't. I'd find yours quite boring.
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No way. (Score:1)
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For instance, on installation, you tell it to only send mp3s, or pdfs to the dumpster drive, and even then, you have to go in and OK the individual files so you don't accidentally delete and upload your tax return.
It is an alternative to your normal trash, not a replacement. You have to explicitly drag a file in there that you wish to be deleted and shared.
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The rest of us can see this as a place where bits and bytes can go to die... and live on! With a thirst for BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSSSS.....
Great Idea! (Score:3)
Can't see how it could possibly go wrong...
Why? (Score:3)
A.) What could I possibly want to delete from my computer that I would actively want to share with anyone? (ie. to my benefit)
B.) Can you imagine the number of copies of "New Folder" and "untitled folder" there would be in there?
I hear the RIAA's footsteps (Score:3)
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Next thing you know is we will have anonymous and distributed recycle bins rather than file sharing. "But your honour, I thought they were throwing it away!"
Doesn't the "cloud" already do this? (Score:2)
n/t
NEVER AUTOPLAY ANYTHING ON YOUR SITE!!!!! (Score:1)
interesting social experiment (Score:2)
I think it will be cool to see files added to and passed around through this system, say something like daily journal with one entry from every person that picks up the file.
but in reality I think it is going to end up with full of trolls, p0rn and people looking for another way to "illegally" share copyrighted material.