Off-topic "How scientists can protect their data from the Trump administration"

[nurkowski]

I read an interesting article at The Intercept and it made me think about this class. We are learning best practices for data management, but what should we do when our scientific data is being attacked? This is happening right now in the US and the article describes ways to secretly transmit data and thwart political censorship.

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/01/how-scientists-can-protect-their-data-from-the-trump-administration/

[aammd]

This is an interesting and deeply distressing topic. Thank you for bringing it up, @nurkowski ! If any @BIOL548O/2017_students have any thoughts or resources on this topic please comment below.

The idea of using BitTorrent for data (as the author of that Intercept article suggests) is intriguing. It reminds me of the Coolest Data Thing We Aren't Talking About, which is The dat Project. I believe dat also uses bitorrent (or something similar) to host data among multiple peers. dat aims to be a means for transferring large data files between users, and can handle multiple versions of the data.