[Cryptography] LeastAuthority.com announces PRISM-proof storage service

arxlight arxlight at arx.li
Mon Aug 12 17:36:24 EDT 2013


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Hello Cryptography:

Some of you might remember me from the old cypherpunk days as "Black
Unicorn."  This was me on something like this topic back in 1996 (god,
I'm old):

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/07/msg00200.html

Hi again.

At the moment I sit on the board of and/or own founder's shares in
several tech related ventures in Switzerland, including hosting
providers with datacenter space in-country.

The jurisdiction (still) has some obvious privacy and regulatory
appeals.  Civil suits by foreign plaintiffs generally require the
plaintiff to post a bond against court costs and opposing party
attorney fees (Switzerland is a "loser pays" jurisdiction).  There are
no punitive damages in Switzerland.  Foreign plaintiffs must convince
a Swiss judge (usually a Kantonal judge) of ACTUAL damages and
standards of proof here are quite substantial.  (Read: Plaintiff
bullying is difficult).

The ventures in which I am involved have substantial space in
datacenters engineered to Swiss/German specifications (example: N+2 or
even N+3 infrastructure and a 90 day contract for diesel for
generators even in times of civil unrest or war) run by local firms
with no direct contacts to the United States.  These same ventures
manage their own network, have good upstream redundancy, and have
their own AS#.  None of these ventures employs any US Persons, and my
personal (non-legal) opinion is that it would be quite difficult to
try and meet a "minimum contacts" test for the purposes of
establishing jurisdiction over these firms.

Just as a hedge, these ventures have retained what I would consider
"bulldog" First Amendment attorneys in the United States (lately, and
ironically, the origin of all real challenges to the First and Fourth
Amendments).

Fairly recently, I was tangentially involved in the acquisition of
Righthaven.com from the forces of darkness, and its later re-purposing
to what I hope are the forces of light (if you will forgive the
melodrama).

I am uninterested in playing games with classified material,
kiddy-porn, etc.  I am highly interested in providing real privacy for
(to remember an old mailing list term) "Joe Sixpack."

I'm not sure exactly what I can offer.  Resilient hosting?  Some legal
defense coverage?  VMWare/storage expertise?  Storage/Cloud nodes?  A
crypto-friendly provider willing to go the extra mile to fight bullshit?

Regardless, I invite anyone up to anything productive along these
lines to drop me a line.

- -uni

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On 8/9/13 10:07 PM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote:
> Dear people of cryptography at metzdowd.net:
> 
> For obvious reasons, now is the time to push forward on strong 
> encryption for everyone. Here is our first attempt from 
> https://LeastAuthority.com . (We have more projects in the works!)
> 
> One of our goals is to spread the idea of *verifiable* end-to-end 
> encryption. It is possible. It isn't easy, but we just might make
> it!
> 
> We welcome criticism, suggestions, and requests from you all.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
> 
> Founder, CEO, and Customer Support Rep https://LeastAuthority.com 
> Freedom matters.
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