On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Brian C. Lane wrote:
With all the recent talk about converted oil-rig DataHavens floating around the oceans, fending off pirates, and Low-Orbit satellite communications, I had a thought. How about an orbiting DataHaven. No jurisdiction to bother with, extremely difficult to get to (except by large governments...). You could put together a couple of Linux boxes with a RAID system, some backups and a large solar panel and have a very nice, secure DataHaven. Granted, you wouldn't have all the fun of floating around the south pacific fending off pirates and navies who are after your data, but it would work. Might even be cheaper than outfitting the oil-ring with the rate that they are tossing satellites into space. If the HAM radio community can get a satellite into space, why not the Cypherpunks/Linux communities?
It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com