wcs@anchor.ho.att.com wrote:
Filtering by filename and type can also be useful - if you don't allow files named *.gif and *.jpg, users may be less likely to spam you with pornography.
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. Mats