There's the possibility of censorship on media or any other external content (governments take down links to fotos, Videos, audios, etc, or the serves themselves delete it). On the current model, our external content storage is the weakest link in the chain of our censorship treat model. As a lot of the communicaton is thru images or videos, that's a very serious issue.
Proposal is to add hashes to our external contents and possible serves to download the content from, so it's easy for clients to search for content elsewhere.
Sha256 might be not enough in future (imagine in 10 or 200 years, quantum computing, etc), so could be better that there's the link, the hash, and the algo used, so that in future it's easy to change the hash algorithm.
If you want to use multiple media, make that a list structure.
If you want to preserve this media position inside the text, you can put a pointer indicating where's the media supposed to appear inside the text, say after character 100, or after byte 800 (I don't know if it's better byte or character.
Puting all together,we have the following structure:
{externalcontents:[{
positionontext:100,
possiblehashes:{
sha256: 0x eeafb2,
sha1024:0x ffeabc4438,
etc},
possiblelinks:[
server1.com/link1,
server2.com/link1,
torrentsite.com/magnet/link1,
ipfs.io/link1, newstorageparadigm.com/link1]},
{
positionontext: 200,
possible hashes: ...
..}]}
/Link can be a traditional link or something that tells the server to fetch a content with the specified hashes. Then you could use torrent, magnet, ipfs or whatever new technology that comes on the future.
If on the future we have a user, say, Snowden, and all his possible media were taken down by government or the server itself he could:
a) do nothing and the clients will go to list of serves he put on his original message and try new ones. If all are down, then B)
b) the user/client developer might specify additional servers to search into
C) Snowden publishes news Servers where his mídia can be found
D) Snowden makes a new event with reference to the original and ask to update the list of sources
D) if Snowden has not the originals anymore, but have something equivalent, he can send a new event asking to update the hashes and the servers (I actually don't know if it's a good idea because someone might steal his key and break havoc with past messages).
Like this, we stop being prone to censorship on external content, which currently is a very high and unmitigated risk.
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