Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 2 months agoHow do you differentiate old from new? I can just create a fresh copy of whatever I’m storing and it’ll look new.
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.
then MD5 checks will catch them
That can be trivially defeated.
I know; I just gave an example of how immediately after in the same comment lol.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months 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.