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
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. 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. 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.