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Information Preservation and Data Havens?
tiltowait asks: "An interesting story on LISNews.com this morning about savvy U.S. students photocopying textbooks in Mexico then returning them for refunds got me thinking about data havens. There's already few places on the web where you can exploit countries having different copyright durations and eligibility. On the flip side, there's restrictions such as broadcast blackouts and country-wide firewalls. But just as the rich can use of international tax loopholes and in light of the recent file-sharing victory, are there any projects out there, beyond the P2P networks, to distribute possibly-protected information by any means necessary? For example, your company may already outsource labor, but what about an off-site backup in case of an FBI raid?"
No.
Reading HavenCo's User Policy is like a joke.
Theres no protection at all, everything you do is public, and the best part:
If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.
Would you give your sensitive data to them?
liqbase
Anyone remember Sealand? They bought an oil rig or somesuch in international waters and started advertising as a place to store data outside the reach of governments.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
I work in the mortgage industry, and in this industry, no-compete clauses are very common
Among the restrictions of the clause, there is one that specifically mentions theft of company information and not directly soliciting any of the company's clients for a period of time.
If you are in a sales position, taking the archives could represent theft of company data, which would violate privacy laws.
If you are in a customer service position, taking the archives could also represent theft of confidential information and trade secrets.
It's good that you back up your data, but if your company ever found out that you are removing it from the company, you could be subject to criminal prosecution.
An example of this would be the AOL employees that sold aol e-mail accounts to spammers. Granted, they acted on the information, but in today's litigation-happy society, they may not wait for you to act.
Not to mention, by taking the privelaged information, you are opening yourself up to a legal nightmare if the next company you work for does business with the same people/organizations as your previous company. If you don't have a list of previous clients/customers, it is much easier to deny intentionally soliciting/marketing the clients of your previous employer.
Mod points are pointless when you browse at -1.
Because that price in Mexico includes labor.
Basically you hand them the text book and come back a few hours later to find it all nicely copied and bound....assuming, of course, that after spending the $100 you saved on drinking Coronas and dodgy prostitutes, you are able to work out where the hell it was you left the book
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
Among other things you can download Orwell's complete works and The Great Gatsby.
The University of Adeliade has a slicker version of the same texts.
Opentextbook.org has very little content-- the link I meant to include is http://en.wikibooks.org
While opentextbook is an interesting start up, you may want to consider WikiBooks. It is already in a huge number of languages and covers many more topics. Not to mention the other Wiki's available.
PS. If you run your own linux box, set up a mediawiki on it. I use mine for doing research, homework and keeping course notes. Very nice!
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.