Skye Merlin Poier writes: [...]
Also, a while back someone mentioned in passing buried cables.. this stirred up an old idea I had about server anonimity, that is that the actual physical location of a server would be very difficult to pin down... the only way to do this with any real degree of security would be to bounce signals off a satellite but this would be rather costly...
Try this idea out: several machines agree to "host" a server. Each machine runs a virtual-server process that communicates with the other virtual-server programs. These programs then combine to run the actual server (a sort of shared virtual multi-processor). The server itself _has no physical existence_ and could operate as long as only one of the hosts is able to spare it some CPU and memory slices. The "server" would basically consist of it's instruction packets being bounced around the net. Secure crypto communication between the "processors" with some reflectors scattered around the net to provide easy access points for those wanting to use the services and you have a service that doesn;t really exist, at least not as far as current legal definitions go... :) jim