So I guess the only thing Orwell did not predict was OpenSource... Oh how very happy that makes me feel :-)
Andrej Falout On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thursday,2009-08-06, at 10:06 , CyberAxe-Hotmail wrote: > > > How does Tahoe differ from Live Mesh > > > Here's an old blog entry of mine from when I presented Tahoe-LAFS at > a workshop attached to the Association for Computing Machinery's > Conference on Computer and Communications Security. > > http://zooko.com/log-2008.html#d2008-11-13-ACM_CCS_notes > > My presentation on Tahoe went well. At the end a fellow named Zhuowei > Li, who works on Microsoft Azure, raised his hand to ask a question. > It was a bit difficult for me to understand him, as English isn't his > first language. "How do you keep track of all the users's files, to > see if they have some bad files like pornography or something in case > the police ask for it?". > > "Well, uh..." I hesitated for a second, "in general, we don't. Many > of our users do ask us to keep a copy of their root cap so that we > can give it back to them if they forget their password. If we have > their root cap, then in theory we can traverse all their files and > inspect them, but we have a policy of not looking at users' files, > and if they didn't share their root cap with us in the first place > then there is no way for us to see their files even if we wanted to." > > "But you have to!", he exclaimed. > > "What? Why?" > > "Legal tells me that we have to keep a catalog of files such as > pornography so for example if the FBI comes." > > "Ah," I said, "Well, I believe that the Microsoft legal department > told you that, but if so then that is a Microsoft policy, not a law > in the United States. There's no requirement for my company to have > the same policy." > > Later I spoke to him in person, and added that if Microsoft wanted to > buy http://allmydata.com and use Tahoe in Azure, they could easily > implement that policy just by making sure they had copies of all the > customer's read-caps. > > > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev >
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