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Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

20 pointsby unprovabletoday at 4:09 PM5 commentsview on HN

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angeldimitrov94today at 6:29 PM

Seems like there is no mechanism to allow non-corrupting reads from authorized processes? Begs the question then of what the point of this is. Pure novelty, or truly something that could be used in practice?

jolmgtoday at 6:40 PM

> This is a social contract

What's the other side of the contract? Why would a reader oblige to corrupt?

dangtoday at 6:13 PM

Kind of like how human memory works, if I understand correctly.

NDlurkertoday at 6:05 PM

Should have patented it and licensed it to Snap

m3kw9today at 6:07 PM

I thought something like this should be part of the file system to make it even more laborious to by pass