Kairos technologies ltd, why haven't I heard from the IT community?

Question

Information Security

A neighbor came to me and said, you IT people don't understand anything and starts pushing about the company:
The essence is a pyramid
Based on the fact that the user is offered 4 packages
1. Secure mail.
2. something else there.
3. something else there.
4. Secure cloud storage.
The bottom line is how they do it.
10 GB of hard drive are taken away from each person who enters and they are forced to turn on the computer and connect to the network for 10 hours a day.
The file is split across all these computers.
They call it a cloud
It seems to be what they call 200,000 people on the network.
Question, is there any logic in this approach to a secure file storage structure?

Answer 1

Looks like some kind of botnet

Answer 2

Here I am also inclined to believe that the program that they force to install on a computer performs some kind of left calculations. And perhaps even transfers all the data of the owner. After that, they resell it in another market)
I don't understand how you can split the file into how many pieces there are and send it to a network of computers:
1. And how to get access to a part of the file if the computer is turned off.
2. If the owner has the key to the file, to collect the file. So there is a possibility to solve all the rest?)

Answer 3

So https://www.wuala.com/ started to rise , but then such a freebie was turned off
. Technically, there is nothing unliftable in the scheme

Answer 4

there was such a thing for a long time, I remember https://freenetproject.org/