essential characteristics of a Data Haven
Eric Hughes
eric at remailer.net
Fri Jan 13 10:09:41 PST 1995
From: Adam Feuer <adamfast at seanet.com>
what differentiates a "data haven" from "reasonably secure offsite
storage"?
Right now, that's easy. Data havens don't exist, and prototype code
for reasonably secure off-site storage does.
The key distinguishing feature of off-site storage is that it stores
data only as bits, structured and segmented, but not interpreted _as_
anything but bits. A data haven, on the other hand, holds things that
someone disapproves of, otherwise there's no need for a haven. _A
fortiori_, if someone disapproves of it, it must mean something. Raw
bits don't mean anything, or rather, they can mean everything.
Eric
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