BBC R&D Data Privacy Project

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Solid on Safe without servers

So the difference between a pod description and a pod is that the pod description is not a live thing. It is just a resource or file in rdf. It has a checksum that can be verified and it’s state is known and it can be trusted. It may reference other pod descriptions but they can be similarly trusted. A server is a live thing and it’s state is unknown and it can’t be trusted. So on your local OS you would have to get all the pod descriptions you need and build those pods before they’re used. Yo…