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I assume you intended this service mostly for your personal use and wonder if making it a) unreliable (e.g. having opening hours a.k.a. intentional downtimes)

I assume you intended this service mostly for your personal use and wonder if making it a) unreliable (e.g. having opening hours a.k.a. intentional downtimes) b) applying client side encryption a la https://privatebin.info https://privatebin.info c) expire & purge the (encrypted) content quickly would have mitigated your problem.

fooker 4y ago
It's fairly easy to be held liable if any of these measures affect law enforcement negativively.
II2II 4y ago
If it is mostly intended for personal use, you may as well use some form of access control. We are long past the day when people would abuse such a service to share distasteful material and in an era when people would abuse such a service to share (rightfully) illegal material. While I was uncomfortable with the former, I certainly do not want to facilitate the latter.
- dweekly 4y ago
  Put the service behind a personal Tailscale tail net. Can still access from all of your devices and nobody else can push or pull. Could crib notes from olden days and have a public/ subdirectory where files you drop in there are available read only to the public internet via separate endpoint. Can also have a blind drop box that does the other direction (but does not allow the public to read). That way you are read / write from all your devices, can publish to anyone, and can let anyone share things to you, you just don't facilitate anyone sharing to anyone.
dspillett 4y ago
> a) unreliable People distributing unmentionable content or using services for otherwise nefarious purposes are used to dealing with intermittent issues like that. It'll get rid of some but not all of them. > b) applying client side encryption a la https://privatebin.info https://privatebin.info > c) expire & purge the (encrypted) content quickly If your site turns out to be being used by a group that is raided, this will not stop your services being confiscated and very thoroughly investigated. You might be legally in the clear, but it may cost you time and hassle (and potentially money if you need to take on the services of a lawyer to help prove you did not intentionally aid/abet). Also an end-to-end encrypted solution like that might be rather attractive to users both illegal and otherwise, so be ready for a huge bandwidth bill if/when a sizable group latches onto it!
- mro_name 3y ago
  > get rid of some but not all usually there's always one solution to get rid of all but that's prbly not what you think of. So getting rid of some is what it's about, isn't it? And some more by another means.

fooker 4y ago

It's fairly easy to be held liable if any of these measures affect law enforcement negativively.

II2II 4y ago

If it is mostly intended for personal use, you may as well use some form of access control. We are long past the day when people would abuse such a service to share distasteful material and in an era when people would abuse such a service to share (rightfully) illegal material. While I was uncomfortable with the former, I certainly do not want to facilitate the latter.

dweekly 4y ago
Put the service behind a personal Tailscale tail net. Can still access from all of your devices and nobody else can push or pull. Could crib notes from olden days and have a public/ subdirectory where files you drop in there are available read only to the public internet via separate endpoint. Can also have a blind drop box that does the other direction (but does not allow the public to read). That way you are read / write from all your devices, can publish to anyone, and can let anyone share things to you, you just don't facilitate anyone sharing to anyone.

dspillett 4y ago

> a) unreliable People distributing unmentionable content or using services for otherwise nefarious purposes are used to dealing with intermittent issues like that. It'll get rid of some but not all of them. > b) applying client side encryption a la https://privatebin.info https://privatebin.info > c) expire & purge the (encrypted) content quickly If your site turns out to be being used by a group that is raided, this will not stop your services being confiscated and very thoroughly investigated. You might be legally in the clear, but it may cost you time and hassle (and potentially money if you need to take on the services of a lawyer to help prove you did not intentionally aid/abet). Also an end-to-end encrypted solution like that might be rather attractive to users both illegal and otherwise, so be ready for a huge bandwidth bill if/when a sizable group latches onto it!

mro_name 3y ago
> get rid of some but not all usually there's always one solution to get rid of all but that's prbly not what you think of. So getting rid of some is what it's about, isn't it? And some more by another means.