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Are there no "digital notary" services? Off the top of my head, such a service would allow you to submit a block of text or perhaps a link which the service wou
by incision 14y ago
Are there no "digital notary" services? Off the top of my head, such a service would allow you to submit a block of text or perhaps a link which the service would regularly check and hash / mirror.
I'm thinking this would be straightforward to create, but hard to become established as an authoritative source.
EDIT: I see archive.org is a popular way to go about something like this.
- opminion 14y agohttp://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm
- elliottcarlson 14y agoarchive.org is awesome - however there is one thing that bothers me about the indexing service, and I am not sure how it could be improved. The problem is that if a site currently has a robots.txt blocking indexing, the whole history of that site disappears with it. On the one hand, this makes sense - what if some webmaster forgot to prevent indexing and then adds it, with the original intention to not share any of the sites work. On the other hand, this prevents me from finding a site I worked on 15 years ago, because the current domain has it blocked.
- aw3c2 14y agoI am sure IA would be helpful if old data is needed in a court.
- rdtsc 14y agoIt would have to come with an unbreakable chain of authentication. Otherwise, those that steal the content, would just submit it first, under their own or a made up name. Then it would make it harder to actually prove it is your content if you didn't first put it there.
- lilsunnybee 14y agoThey couldn't steal it first if the work was submitted before publishing.
- ultrasaurus 14y agoThat's been one of my side-projects constantly relegated to side-project status. But I'd love to hear any thoughts you have: dave@euri.ca