On Mon, 9 Jan 1995 dfloyd@io.com wrote:
My problem is not that people will bitch about my DH. My problem will be arfholes or yellow journalists uploading K*dd*e p**n to my DH, then making a long report how I cater to p*dofiles and other evil denezins that pop from time to time. Then, I get the police knocking at my door, asking me to come to Club Fed for a looooonnnggg vacation.
I myself see nothing wrong with selectivly choosing your users at this juncture. With an experimental server that wouldn't have the back-up to protect itself fomr attacks in real-space(police feds guns dogs fundies) you DO need to be careful. If you wanna turn this into a profit thing(which is possible) you then would get to choose your clients. I guess what I meant o say in tha tlast letter, was directed towards a full-fledged, well established and backed DataHaven that was not run for profit, but rather as a service to help the public(yeah, I know this lists idea on those projects, I wont go that direction no more) and thus would need to be open liek that.
Of course, the DH will be hidden by a good remailer (anon.penet.fi), but it is trivial to use traffic analysis to find where the DH lies. Just monitor traffic from/to the remailer and do a series of store/retrives. Then for confirmation, forge a mail from the dh site to the remailer with the password (obtained from sniffing) to yourself.
Well for an experiemnt that is fine, and I don't see it then much mroe then a listerv file service with encryption, unless i am missing something in teh DataHaven you have planned. But later on when you wanna get serious and shit, you could get better shielding then that, depending on how much money you wanna spend. Everythign from offshore sites with sattelite feeds or radio feeds(encrypted of course) with physical securiy measures and such.
This is the main reason I haven't worked on this code for so long, as well as finals and other distractions. Until I find a decent solution to this problem (The alpha test will be a snap... just allow certain people to send/get and ban all others, but once in full working mode this ceases to be a solution.) I am hesitant on setting up a working DH.
I would set one up if I had the code tha tmet my standards(I don't have time right now to write it myself, but maybe if this thread goes well i will be inspired enough to order a few pizzas and go for it). Right now my connection is muc much too slow to allow such traffic. This is somethign i have been doing some serious thinking about also. I cn actually see it bieng possible for me to have a small scale experiemntal data haven up and running in the near future, acting not only as a drop box, but also as a storage place and database of obscure information.