<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2011 16:54, David Edmondson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dme@dme.org">dme@dme.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(Sorry if you see a duplicate - MTA difficulties.)<br>
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* <a href="mailto:charles@knownelement.com">charles@knownelement.com</a> [2011-06-15 Wed 05:59]<br>
>> Running that server, it appeared to me that standard DSL link<br>
>> reliability is quite an issue.<br>
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> It certainly can be. Especially the dirt cheap plans offered by the<br>
> telco providers in the USA. I paid 110.00 a month for static ip/no<br>
> filters/business class DSL in Los Angeles CA. I now run everything on a<br>
> VPS at my $dayjob for ~50.00 a month.<br>
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My worry about using a VPS is that we lose some of the useful properties<br>
of the system being physically located at our homes. For example:<br>
- Using an encrypted disk is more complex, because I can't easily<br>
provide keying material when the system boots,<br>
- The system is no longer under my physical control, so I can't<br>
destroy it, move it to another site, etc.<br>
- The company providing the VPS may have a different legal obligation<br>
to an individual should a government agency ask for information<br>
about or from the system,<br>
- Moving large amounts of data to/from the system may be<br>
significantly more time consuming (or it may not - it depends where<br>
the data is coming from or going to).<br></blockquote><div><br>Using *any* centralised repository is a compromise, as far as I'm concerned.<br>If it can be achieved, strict peer to peer distribution is preferable.<br>
<br>Within any strategy involved in disabling networks, attacking the nodes of that network are priority.This compromises the entire network.<br>Regards,<br><br>Weaver.<br></div></div>-- <br>
<pre><font size="4">Religion is regarded by the common people as true, <br>by the wise as false, <br>and by the rulers as useful. <br><br>— Lucius Annæus Seneca.<br><br>Terrorism, the new religion.</font></pre>
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