mirror volunteers needed

[Julian Assange]

> Julian Assange wrote:
> 
> > If you are brave and have a unix account/machine with approximately
> > 2Gig of disk free, we need you.
> 
> More details, please. Mainly the kind of material to be hosted. Holding
> 2GB of kiddie porn (horseman alert!) might be objectionable on moral
> grounds as well as legal grounds.

Documents and images. No kiddie porn, but there are still three
other horsemen to choose from. Absolutely legal for now, bar
retrospective legislation, but that won't stop the horse trainers
from pretending otherwise. Constitutionally protected in the US,
but that doesn't mean you won't cop flak from ISP higher-up and
other organisations regardless of where you live.

If you'd be happy to mirror cryptome.org, then you'd probably be
happy to mirror this material.

> What kind of traffic is expected, in terms of connections per hours and
> bytes per hour?

Depends on interest. We can use dns tricks to shape traffic to
reflect your resources.

> Why does it need to be a *NIX machine? Ease of remote access, security,
> active content, or the requirements of the mirroring software?

The anonymous push nature of the mirroring software. We can support
non-unix pull mirrors too, provided there are enough push mirrors
to feed from. The software could be ported to other operating
systems without too much difficulty, but that's another project.

> The mirror would presumably need a fixed IP address. Are there any other
> requirements?

An ability to create mail-aliases, gpg, perl5, and a good sense of humour :)

Cheers,
Julian.


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