Not exactly what you're looking for, but your comment about abusing pings made me remember pingfs [1]. It brings an entirely new definition of cloud computing!
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
> pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself, as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and back again.
Reminds me of https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
You can technically do this today. Just target a remote server and run pingfs. Store your data in the transatlantic fibres! https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
There's some prior art for the ping-based storage: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs , but the tetris storage is amazing.
Well, if you can store data in icmp packets, I bet you can do math, too.
See pingfs. It stores data on ICMP packets.
Oh damn. For a second there I confused IPFS with pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Not the same thing, not the same thing at all...
Reminds me of pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Ha, this makes me think of PingFS [1] where the data is in the latency of the network, whereas here the money is in the latency of the banks.
At least it's more efficient than PingFS[0]
Data stored "on the wire"? :D
pingfs - Stores your data in ICMP ping packets
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725
There should be a Rule 34 for insane software ideas :)
Of the more obscure file systems, pingfs is still my favorite. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Sounds like PingFS. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
I like this one:
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:786NsZY... and https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
OT: Let archive.org save your pages, people!