17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
From: Adam Feuer <adamfast@seanet.com> what differentiates a "data haven" from "reasonably secure offsite storage"? Right now, that's easy. Data havens don't exist, and prototype code for reasonably secure off-site storage does. The key distinguishing feature of off-site storage is that it stores data only as bits, structured and segmented, but not interpreted _as_ anything but bits. A data haven, on the other hand, holds things that someone disapproves of, otherwise there's no need for a haven. _A fortiori_, if someone disapproves of it, it must mean something. Raw bits don't mean anything, or rather, they can mean everything. Eric