Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data

• Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How do you differentiate old from new? I can just create a fresh copy of whatever I’m storing and it’ll look new.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    we’re talking about reducing “crap data” which is data people don’t care about long-term. If you care enough about the data to copy it manually more power to you. If you don’t care that much, you’ll let it get purged.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If the files are exact copies, then MD5 checks will catch them; tweaking so many files just to bypass this could prove to be too tedious of a process for people to bother exploiting it.

    However, people could create scripts for others to mass-download, -edit, and -upload their files accordingly to reduce this tedium.

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      then MD5 checks will catch them

      That can be trivially defeated.

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      • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I know; I just gave an example of how immediately after in the same comment lol.

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