[117841] in Cypherpunks
RE: Zipping to BlackNet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sun Sep 12 19:09:03 1999
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: "cypherpunks@Algebra. COM" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:57:09 -0700
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Anon wrote (re: ZipLip)
> Is this download also SSL protected?
Yes.
> Does ZipLip claim to be anonymous?
No. Which actually made me somewhat respect the guy giving the talk. The
system by itself provides no security enhancements for Cypherpunks-type
thread models, but at least the company rep didn't claim it did either.
Which in itself put him ahead of the vast majority of the rest. <Yes, I am
being sarcastic>.
> > Combining ZipLip (or other services like it) and Freedom, we now have
> > anonymous high-bandwidth content distribution. A highly useful BlackNet
> > enabler.
>
> It seem that you are really just using ZipLip as a content server.
Well, of course. A content server that as far as I am concerned is welcome
to take the heat for the many gigs of warez and other goodies that will be
distributed from it in short order. Works for me. [Before somebody replies
"but that can't last". Well, of course it can't. But who cares. There
are/will be other services like it. One could define an API for a shim that
interfaces with all the free content servers out there. Then all you need to
do is add/subtract modules as content servers go up and down. I can't see
those modules being more than one page of perl per server. Replicate the
data across more than one server at a time and chances are the data will
remain available to your target audience for a long time. Untracable to you
and at zero cost to you.
Back in the early days of Cypherpunks, there was a discussion regarding soft
nodes and hard nodes. Most people at the time envisioned the soft nodes to
be some cheap boxes that are installed without the network administrator's
knowledge in a wiring closet or the ceiling. If the box gets impounded,
there would be no big financial loss. But hey, Internet has reached a point
where free services allow us to use their hardware and fat pipes as soft
nodes. At zero cost to us. A good thing, IMHO. Well, for us at least...
> What advantages does this have over the many free content servers
> available on the net today?
As of this very hour, the ZipLip guys offer unlimited https accessible drive
space to any user. Somebody probably should forward this fact to the
warez/mp3 lists... Might as well make use of it while it lasts.
Have fun,
--Lucky
