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Imagine your data gets cached on a Starlink satellite and it dies... then future people find the satellite and see your info.



Dead Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere within a decade... and why are you sending your data unencrypted over the internet?


Ahh yeah, have this archaeology fantasy like my data lives on in space somewhere but yeah forgot about the LEO atmosphere drag bit.


You'd have better luck with a GEO satellite like HughesNet, but I'd be surprised if any of them cache user data in nonvolatile storage.


Yeah I wonder if there will be a service like "send your data into space" which sounds equally stupid (use radio waves) but yeah... just longevity woes (sculpt a rock and burry it).

Some of my code is in the arctic vault though a piece of crap Todo List.


There's so many levels of wrong in this post I don't know where to begin. Data isn't being cached. Encrypted data doesn't help anything. It's a flying network router. If you're worried about "cached" data, then don't use the internet (don't actually worry because routers don't substantially cache either).


I said in another comment of mine that I didn't care about it being cached. I wanted it to be there "cached" to be remembered. Like a fragment of data (my data) found that exists long after I'm gone.

The satellite is like a piece of debris/wreckage which someone pointed out it would have deorbited anyway at some point.


Imagine your data gets on a server in the cloud and it dies (gets replicated/replaced/decommissioned ...)

What's special about satellites (and how much caching are they gonna do) and why are you worried about data you have chosen to send in the clear over a network you don't own?


Oh I wasn't implying I was worried about it. It was an indirect reference to a Cowboy Bebop episode (sentient satellite they connect to from decades ago).

Don't worry I'm not an Elon hater


there is no cache. it's an analog repeater.


What??




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