The only site that had anything readily available on page load about his death was rt.com... Everyone's burying this as hard as possible.
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If his blockchain "dead man's switch" starts releasing significant amounts of data (think declass type stuff)... that could be a very big deal. 31 TB of data is the equivalent of thousands of DVD-length videos, etc.
I wonder what kind of data could be released like this? Hmmmm.
"Follow the money"
How many machines over the years had his antivirus suite installed over these many years? Maybe his AV data mined? This is way over my head so I will yield to the autists.
Does anyone ever question the "Checking for updates" communication that goes on when these programs fire up? Are you sure its ONLY downloading. I would seriously doubt it.
There seems to be a lot of traffic going out from that machine every day. Oh, thats just hitting the update server. Oh, ok. "Just".
Whats all that data it is sending out? Oh, we opted in to sample submission to make it more efficient at detecting viruses. They have to 256bit AES encrypt it to make sure it can't run inadvertently. Oh, ok.
I was thinking about this too. Makes lots of sense!
Alot of footage may be nonsense, but if even 1TB is filled with valuable footage then it is an absolutely massive trove!
Not an expert, but I think it's an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain if what I read was correct. If so, you might expect Ethereum to crash in order to protect those on video. I think the crashing of all cryptos will accelerate.
I hate to be the one to jump in here on this but your statement is not at all true. That is one of the single biggest use cases for crypto-tokens. They can in fact store all kinds of information. That's the point of most Tokens, infinite data/information retention - contracts being the biggest use case.
Well, yes and no. It is true that the data is not stored in the blockchain itself. It stores transactions and some limited data about each transaction. Bulk data is stored as off-chain files in associated servers, with the hash or key value for the off-chain files usually stored as part of the blockchain transaction.