On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
Hardly. (*.gi0 and *.jp0 for a start?) But what are data havens for, if not for controversial data? One of the greatest needs, if not _the_ greatest, in our times for a data haven is probably for storing porno. There is a tremendous, world-wide demand for porno. Yet, there are numerous countries where sex.gif's found on your disk (encrypted or not, they can use thumb-screws to force the key out of your hands) will put you in a very difficult situation (loss of social status, jail, decapitation). It might be much more convenient for, let's say, a Saudi teenager to store his encrypted private gif's in a data haven in Sweden, download them when he feels the urge and purge the copies after every use.
My feelings exactly. Are we going to fall prey to the medias asault on porno and resort to self-censorship? If a data haven resorted to filtering out all gifs and jpegs, or even porno, then it wouldn't be one I wouldn't use it, for my porn, nor for my other data. If it is going to be a datahaven it can;t fall to such things as filtering data for controversial subject the owner doesn't like. i want to know everything http://www.mcs.com/~nesta/home.html i want to be everywhere Nesta's Home Page i want to fuck everyone in the world & i want to do something that matters /-/ a s t e zine