http://phys.org/news/2015-01-era-cloud.html
In our increasing digital world it is becoming harder to protect our personal data, the above article proposes an interesting solution to the problem. I think Professor Jon Crowcroft’s idea has merit given the success of other peer-to-peer networks such as Bitcoin and BitTorrent. The biggest problem to such a network is adoption. To succeed it will require an application that is easy to setup and use, and easily found. With the increasing threats to our personal data I hope that someone takes the ideas presented in the article and implements them. However, I don’t agree with the idea of a pay-per-use system given that a peer-to-peer system depends on the contributions of the user’s computer power and network connection to work instead of a centralized corporate server.