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[phelix at vallnet.com]

On 11 Jan 1998 18:48:24 -0600, Adam Back <aba at dcs.ex.ac.uk> wrote:

>Wei Dai suggested that documents should be secret split in a redundant
>fashion so that say 2 of 5 shares are required to reconstruct the
>document.  If the shares are distributed across different servers,
>this ensures that one server does not directly hold the information.

What prevents the operator of such a server from being charged with
"conspiracy to provide child porn" or whatever?  If he is holding a portion
of such contraband, isn't he as liable as if he was holding the whole
article(s)?

-- Phelix