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Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating
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David Shaw |
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Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:12:24 -0400 |
On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:40:40PM +0200, Johan van Selst wrote:
>> That makes perfect sense. But still, there is nothing preventing this
>> user (or anyone else) from harassing other keyserver maintainers and
>> demanding key removal everywhere. It would be a real shame if all
>> keyservers in the western world had to shut down for legal reasons.
>
> Given the ability for arbitrary people to attach arbitrary pictures to
> arbitrary keys, I think the ability to remove packets from the database
> is a feature that keyservers are going to have to grow.
>
> Let's face it, there are images which are illegal to distribute in
> basically every jurisdiction.
Basically, yes.
I must confess I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet (at least in a visible
fashion - who knows what happened un-noticed). The danger has been talked
about a few times over the years.
I suspect if it happened, the quickest fix would be to simply discard any photo
IDs, along with their signatures. A more delicate fix would take longer.
David
- [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Peter Pramberger, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Jonathan Plews, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Johan van Selst, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Peter Pramberger, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Johan van Selst, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Matthew Wilcox, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating,
David Shaw <=
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Anakin-Marc Zaeger, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Robert J. Hansen, 2010/09/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Gabor Kiss, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Anakin-Marc Zaeger, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Kiss Gabor (Bitman), 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Jack Cummings, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Ryan, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Phil Pennock, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Arnold, 2010/09/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pramberger.at terminating, Joseph Oreste Bruni, 2010/09/08