EMFS：将SMTP和IMAP重新用于数据存储和同步
EMFS: Repurposing SMTP and IMAP for Data Storage and Synchronization
摘要：
云存储已经成为一项庞大而有利可图的业务，苹果、微软、谷歌和Dropbox等公司为数亿客户提供同步和冗余存储。这些服务的价格与存储比率通常远远高于物理存储的市场价格，并增加了数据泄漏的表面积。为了改变这种对消费者不友好的现状，我建议使用广泛可用的、标准化良好的电子邮件协议（如SMTP和IMAP），并与免费的电子邮件服务提供商一起在离散的系统中存储、同步和共享文件。
英文摘要：
Cloud storage has become a massive and lucrative business, with companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox providing hundreds of millions of clients with synchronized and redundant storage. These services often command price-to-storage ratios significantly higher than the market rate for physical storage, as well as increase the surface area for data leakage. In place of this consumer-unfriendly status quo, I propose using widely available, well standardized email protocols like SMTP and IMAP in conjunction with free email service providers to store, synchronize, and share files across discrete systems.
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