[AktiviX-discuss] activix account

[Dan]

Hi,

Charlie said:

"4. we could have backup servers located in other countries."

Not that I know anything about this, but would it be possible to build 
an exchange web of mutual backing up?  Does this happen already?  i.e. 
If we own a server, we're backing up x group's servers, and they're 
backing up ours?  Obviously limits on space, but the mutual benefit - 
even if each one only exchanges with one other - would seem huge.

(p.s. thanks must go to DARPA and the US military for inventing the 
system of redundancy designed to resist attack, I understand...!)

Or does this happen already?  Me being a bit of a non-techie troll...

Dan


Charlie Harvey wrote:

>Picture the scene, it's 16:47 on 11 Oct 2004, and chip says:
>
>| will be any more secure than the indymedia server which has been
>| sequestrated - what happens when the feds decide to come after aktivix?
>
>It's a good thing to be thinking about. Here's some 
>suggestions, some more practical than others. Perhaps we should 
>start a wiki page for security?
>
>to mitigate the impact of losing our server
>1. ppl w/ fast connections could be doing rsync over ssh 
>backups of the server. this could just be a cron job running in 
>the middle of the night.
>2. we could have a less up to date image of the drive stashed   
>somewhere secure in the event of these people getting busted.
>3. we could start using freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ 
>4. we could have backup servers located in other countries.
>
>to mitigate the damage should any feds acquire the server
>1. the content partition could be encrypted, say with mkcryptfs
>2. we could disable logging except for errors on apache.
>3. we could srm the logs quite frequently.
>
>tar
>
>Charlie 
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