On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 04:07:02PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:

Library Genesis is still around and probably needs to be entirely implemented, homed, and mirrored within darknets such as i2p/tor before it goes away.

Very good idea :) Is there rough estimate for the bytesize of libgen? Would they cooperate? Are they tolerant to (limited) crawling?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:

Is there rough estimate for the bytesize of libgen?

Well over 30TB. It's doable if distributed. They have some amount of semantic, not hash, duplicates that could be removed with help.

Would they cooperate?

As to originating or multihoming in darknets? Ask them. Same for all these questions really.

Are they tolerant to (limited) crawling?

Dumb bots are not welcome anywhere on the net when smarter mechanisms are available/buildable. Links: https://twitter.com/bodobalazs https://twitter.com/fhuysmans https://twitter.com/OpenBibliotheek http://operatorbeats.tumblr.com/post/37129651818/library-genesis-is-it-bad-t...

On 3/1/15, Juan wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules

But, but ... but all those hooks into my kernel are for -security-, they make my kernel -secure- don't they? And I guess they invented them because the kernel might have one or two security bugs or something right? Or because sysadmins (like my 94yo nan) occasionally make mistakes and the security modules protect me from them yeah? And because my lsm override alias is one letter shorter than sudo, it'll be easier to not make mistakes when I'm making complicated and risky changes to my system? I know, I know, I'm making a lot of assumptions you say.. Well, my assumptions are founded in a solid reality - my faith. You see, I believe, and ah seen tha light - Linux *will* set me free. Right?

2015-03-02 10:48 GMT+09:00 Juan :

which according to wikipedia was primarily developed by the NSA.

But since according to wiki again, the NSA made 'substantial contributions' to the LSM framework as well, I didn't bother correcting my mistake.

Given their size and mission it's not that strange. The mantra is "unless *you* can check it, it's not safe." the exception is when you can trust someone who can check it. But trust is no easy game.