Jim Miller writes:
If true, I guess the next question becomes: How can you offer a service to the Internet, but make it impossible for a Bad Guy to physically locate you?
Perhaps the server shouldn't stay in any one location for very long. Bring it up and post an Internet address. Operate for a few days, then shut it down and move to some new location, with a new Internet address.
You can use the Internet itself as a storage device. I've seen articles about how you can use the ether between here and the moon as a storage device, sending (e.g. optical or radio) information up to the moon, bouncing it off, receiving the echo, and then resending it. It takes a few seconds I think, which allows a fair amount of storage, depending on the bandwidth. So, for example, you have a bunch of net.sites that receive stuff and send it back. Of course, you have to wait for it to come around again to your neck of the Net-u-verse to read it again, but then you don't have to pay for as much disk storage, as all your friends on the 'net will let you use what they have in their store-and-forward mechanisms. The disadvantage is that it relies on a form of security by obscurity; once people figger out what you are doing, they may get pissed off. If you use it wisely however, and just gradually increase the bandwidth over time, eventually you may be able to get everybody else to pay for the disk space to keep _your_ data, without anybody being the wiser. The Internet as a (w)hole must have enormous capacity at this very minute. -- O_O 01234567 dave_taffs@mentorg.com | . . ^ "Kolmogorov-Chaitin measures of complexity are | (_:_) MGC != me very exciting." -- Tim May on 12/02/93 |