Immutable Recording
Hi cpunks, I'm trying to figure out how to produce lengthy recordings that cannot be reasonably removed or altered even by a very powerful entity. I'd like to find a way to make it easy for myself and others to live a life where if the forces of authority attack you, their only option for covering it up is creating a noticeable, diagnosable, recording hole in advance. I've started work on https://github.com/xloem/openrealrecord . I was wondering if anybody would have the time to review my plan and comment on it. I'm using hyperdb to create a network of binary streams that all checkpoint each other. It allows data to be piped in from the command line. I have a few issues and todo items laid out to solve remaining issues I've thought of: for example, posting checkpoint hashes and p2p seed ips to the bitcoin blockchain, or integrating with siacoin/storj/filecoin for reliable storage. I'm losing my mind for a number of reasons, and likely won't be able to finish this on my own, so I've started offering largish bounties; just on the blockchain hashing at first. It would be incredible if somebody with a mind for security could help me finish the essentials of this project; I'd be happy to add more bounties if needed. But even a quick comment would be so kind. I'd of course love to know if this is duplicate public effort. Karl
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:28:44PM -0400, Karl wrote:
Hi cpunks,
I'm trying to figure out how to produce lengthy recordings that cannot be reasonably removed or altered even by a very powerful entity.
Your sole option is distribution of the recording (presumably in real time) to multiple jurisdictions, at least one of which will be supportive of "not deleting/ suppressing" your recording. I imagine Wikileaks would like to know if you come up with something better than the Tor NSA CIA mafia.
Archive.org go visit brewster in cali if you want to discuss it face to face On 04:36, Tue, May 22, 2018 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:28:44PM -0400, Karl wrote:
Hi cpunks,
I'm trying to figure out how to produce lengthy recordings that cannot be reasonably removed or altered even by a very powerful entity.
Your sole option is distribution of the recording (presumably in real time) to multiple jurisdictions, at least one of which will be supportive of "not deleting/ suppressing" your recording.
I imagine Wikileaks would like to know if you come up with something better than the Tor NSA CIA mafia.
A decentralized storage net that offered append only extents, under various integrity / authenticated / redundancy / expiry models, could be interesting. At cost for guaranteed expirys, free for other lesser methods. However your indefinite arbitrary incommunicado detention could always exceed such provisioning... most networks just aren't there yet. There's enough unused space on all the planet's storage devices to develop some incredible decentralized applications that can utilize it. We're starting to see the first few entrants to that space. Most storage systems seem to require allocating fixed amounts of space to them ahead of time... that is not fire and forget, is not as useful to the storage net, and is pointless. They should offer modes to dynamically use all unused space in a get out of the way of the user fashion. There's also huge potential in offering managed trees of knowledge that are deduplicated by the underlying storage net. 500M hard copies of the latest popstar collection... not useful. Curating meta layers over 1 adequately distributed copy... is.
Freenet might be an option. There's a built-in option for versioning so changes or additions/extension to the original upload can be searched while still remaining in control of the original uploader. As for being immutable just program a client to query the content on a regular basis and it should stay cached. On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:28:44PM -0400, Karl wrote:
Hi cpunks,
I'm trying to figure out how to produce lengthy recordings that cannot be reasonably removed or altered even by a very powerful entity.
Your sole option is distribution of the recording (presumably in real time) to multiple jurisdictions, at least one of which will be supportive of "not deleting/ suppressing" your recording.
I imagine Wikileaks would like to know if you come up with something better than the Tor NSA CIA mafia.
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