Saturday, January 01, 2011

[lwdxeeip] Storing every webpage you see

With cheap terabyte hard drives these days, it seems feasible to permanently personally archive every webpage you see, with the possible exception of video (but that soon!).

It could be done at the browser level, the network level, or the display (screen capture) level.  DRM will try to make things difficult, against your interests and of society.

Public key cryptography for some privacy, though the public key is kept private as well.  The point is to avoid the private key from being in memory all the time.  Things get reëncrypted with an "archival" key after a while, on the assumption that when browsing your past, you will mostly care about your recent past, so only your "recent" private key is vulnerable to shoulder surfers and the like.  Only your enemies will care about your distant past.

Private search of this heterogenous collection is tricky.

Machine learning for deciding which public key stores which history.

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