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After a closer read I've figured out who you are. Long time no speak bro, you have a WAY better memory than me apparently. I'll try and think of anything you missed
Most interesting is the progression from "getting high" to being driven enough to research cryptography and create a secure database. And then progression to political and social views as a result of this study. I think many of us can relate to that progression (minus the creation of the database of course!).
As it just so happens, historically, the rise in incarceration coincided with the rise of the privately owned prison-industrial-complex. Wall St. just looooooooves incarcerating non-violent offenders and drug users because there is really big money in it, look up some of the most notorious players on a stock ticker, your eyes will pop. You thought prostitution is recession-proof? Try incarceration!
Those that think the war on drugs was an oppressive government project should rethink their stance and do some real digging into how most of the draconian drug laws came into being. One of the foulest and vile players in that field is ALEC - a.k.a the American Legislative Exchange Council, a darling think tank of many a conservative and libertarian. They have systematically bought up conservative and libertarian candidates brute-forcing draconian incarceration policies into state after state. Of course most libertarians will attribute the US's high incarceration rate to oppressive government, when in fact free-market privateers are the driving force behind it.
I believe that very soon healthcare will become mandatory under Obama's administration, if I understand it correctly. So there will be a gun involved in the provision of healthcare. Another instance where state will use a gun to achieve it's purpose. You or your partner won't have a say in the matter either way.
I don't live under Obama's jurisdiction, hence the use of UK alias and the use of mainly UK Vendors. Living with the "gun to my head", i.e. taxation for healthcare, is the very reason she is not currently severely disabled.
Americans can be weird about healthcare. Saw an interview with an African American. Diabetes had taken his toes. Nevertheless he didn't want universal healthcare because it was a step towards Communism. You just gotta LAUGH.
The Farmer's Market is another one that went back to before 2004. I remember talking to Marc Willems (the creator) a decade ago. He had a forum way back then. He used to accept paypal and everything. He always went by the name Adam. I am sure that there is someone else on this forum that remembers Adam F.
. Not to mention that I am now hardly involved with anything illegal at all, have a perfectly spotless house more often than not and am only a small time drug user now. Plz feel free to raid me feds, you will find only several thousand lines of source code on my computer . I determined quite a while ago that I am more valuable to the scene out of jail than in, and have acted accordingly since. Cannot get much better security than not breaking the law 
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Another exposure with this architecture is DoS. If you're blind to anything about the data except it's original creation date, it's difficult to keep someone from simply flooding petabytes into the server (make it eat its tail until it eats its head). Unless there's something like a proof-of-work concept prior to uploading data to effectively rate-limit that forced growth by a single actor.
I think this problem is solved by querying multiple servers. Unless an adversary runs all or almost all nodes, you will be able to retrieve the content. Comparing the results of multiple queries from different nodes will allow clients to determine which ones are censoring, and even what kinds of content they are censoring, and the clients could blacklist those nodes.
In the end, censorship is simply impractical if the network of nodes is big enough.
Abstract
The fundamental requirement for censorship resis-
tance is content discoverability — it should be easy for
users to find and access documents, but not to discover
what they store locally, to preserve plausible deniabil-
ity. We describe a design for “one-way indexing” to
provide plausibly-deniable content search and storage
in a censorship resistant network without requiring out-
of-band communication, making a file store searchable
and yet self-contained. Our design supports publisher-
independent replication, content-oblivious replica main-
tenance, and automated garbage collection.
1 Introduction
Censorship resistant systems allow users to find and ac-
cess content even if an external entity is trying to pre-
vent this, either by attempting to block specific content
(e.g. by keyword), classes of content (e.g. video files),
classes of websites and services (e.g. social networks),
or block the use of the communication system itself (e.g.
shutting down the Internet). Prior real-world experience
demonstrates that nation-state-level adversaries are will-
ing to engage in all these tactics [5, 18, 31]. Numerous
potential solutions have been proposed [4, 7, 27], but the
problem of plausibly-deniable search and robust storage
remains elusive due to its seemingly contradictory set of
requirements — how does a system maintain a search-
able index of content for users and yet hide it from inter-
mediate/relay nodes and volunteers who store content?
Any useful censorship resistant system must provide
plausibly-deniable in-band search and content privacy on
the wire. Protection for storers as well as intermediaries
is vital, since we expect that any user’s computer may
be seized and examined by a powerful adversary [22], so
the owner must be able to plausibly disavow knowledge
of stored content. That same user must be able to search
and find content in the network which may already be
on his or her computer, but should not discover that it
is stored locally. Prior work has partially addressed this
by encrypting files and requiring out-of-band discovery
of decryption keys, which makes reconstruction of con-
tent difficult. We describe a design for plausibly deniable
search and robust storage for a censorship resistant net-
work that supports natural keyword search while retain-
ing deniability.1 Our design is self-contained — no out-
of-band communication is required to find content nor
obtain decryption keys to decode files. This promotes
usability and reduces users’ real-world risks.
One-way indexing. To solve the problem we propose
“one-way indexing,” such that a user can search by key-
word, but someone storing parts of the file cannot de-
termine the content of the file or query. To publish file
F with keyword kw, Alice partitions it into three logical
portions — the content, consisting of encrypted blocks
b1 , . . . , bk each indexed under ID hash1 (bi ); the content
manifest, containing a list of all block hashes (allowing
retrieval of the file) and indexed as hash2 (kw); and the
key manifest, containing the file decryption key, indexed
as hash3 (kw). To retrieve a file, a user will search for
hash2 (kw) and hash3 (kw), but any node not storing both
manifests must invert the keyword hash in order to re-
trieve the other manifest and reconstruct the file, even if
all file blocks are stored locally.
Robust storage. Censorship resistance requires perpet-
ual and robust storage. We use both erasure coding
and replication at publication time to achieve initial ro-
bustness, and maintain it without publisher intervention.
Once the file has been stored as described above, nodes
who store the file’s content manifest lazily verify that
a file is sufficiently replicated, freeing the original pub-
lisher from responsibility and providing added deniabil-
ity. To prevent mitigate adversaries overwhelming the
system with useless data, we incorporate lazy garbage
collection, randomly selecting unused contents for dele-
tion
Ahh i get you, That does make it a hell of a lot easier then.
Hmm, the one question that stands out in my mind is if we managed to get it all sorted, major support, donations, brilliant ideas how could we get someone to create the "site" without compromising security by some sort of backdoor being left etc. You could have lots of different cryptographers working on different sections so that the whole thing could not be compromised but think of the damage one lone skilled cryptographer could do , Should he decide to code it maliciously.
.Unless I'm misunderstanding, #1 has to be true. If servers can see the files they store, but don't have access to the key to those files, I don't see how they can exercise any content-level control over what they store or serve. An encrypted BLOB is an encrypted BLOB.
If the content is uploaded encrypted and the operator doesn't know the key, then they don't know what they are storing, so they can't be blamed for what they're hosting anymore than Dropbox can be blamed if someone dumps a Truecrypt file on their servers and LE finds out that file contains illegal content.
The thing about dumping old content, I consider that a feature. Look at this forum. Why store every thread since the beginning, when everyone asks the same questions over and over every week? The popular threads stay on the front page for weeks or months at a time, so they are safe. It would work just as well if it was designed like 4chan to roll old threads off the server, say after 3 months of inactivity. Hell, it even warns you not to dig old threads back up and to start a new thread! It is needlessly storing gigabytes of data.
