On 25 Apr 2013 11:54:06 -0500
Share.f...@email.con wrote:
> three command can be use : ?list or ?put or ?find
> ?list will send you a list of all files
> ?put will receive a files attach from you ( UPLOAD )
> ?find xxxx to find patern files
Sounds like the email version of IRC XDCC.
There's a very fundemental problem with this.
Email attachment limits. Many email providers have strict limits to
file sizes of attachments, often much lower than 2GB.
If you want an alternative to BitTorrent, Usenet Binaries is very
traditional and established. I was very happy with Giganews while I had
the account, though I was not impressed with their VPN speeds.
When I have the means to do so, I'll put together a Fibre Channel SAN
(oldschool!) to store as much binary stuff as I'd ever want, get the
best plans from four different Usenet binaries providers, and archive a
shitload of binaries for my own personal consumption. That way, I don't
have to rely on anyone else for stuff.
I have a strong distaste for centralized repositories of anything
cultural. Anything, movies, books, music, games, elements of culture,
should not be controlled by any gatekeeper.
Culture cannot be owned. There is nothing inherently illegal about
using Usenet binaries. It is why binary newsgroup service providers can
go about their business relatively unimpeded by law enforcement.
I love the decentralization of Usenet, it makes distributing Usenet
binaries a lot easier, cause there's no single arbiter of what you can
and cannot have. Even if one service provider removes Usenet posts of a
particular NZB reference, there's absolutely no guarantee that other
Usenet service providers will, especially since the local laws of each
country are different, and filtering each individual Usenet message
traveling NNTP peering links is pretty much impossible.
Add to that the deliberate prevalence of TLS secured NNTP peering, and
trying to control the spread and exchange of culture is made pretty
much impossible, especially if maximum strength TLS is used.
The use of TLS 1.2, 512-bit AES (the strongest), client-side
certificate authentication (for server-to-server links) and certificate
pinning, making certificate forgery a lot harder, and NNTP peering can
exchange culture unimpeded.
The increasing adoption of TLS by the Usenet community means that the
decentralized and unregulated nature of Usenet is preserved in a global
climate of increasingly oppressive state surveillance and persecution.
Edward Snowden is a good example of a citizen doing what he has to do
to preserve the liberties and freedoms of his people. We need more
people like him.
The protocol headers for HTTP as used for HTTP Strict Transport
Security and HTTP Public Key Pinning can be ported to NNTP headers,
since NNTP resembles SMTP in many ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning
See also:
https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc4642.pdf
Bottom line, When properly secured, NNTP is by and far the most
established method of sharing very large files with the general public
in a very difficult-to-impede manner, especially in the methods
generally used against BitTorrent.
There's also RetroShare, for those who want to try something new.
I DO recommend that if you decide on investing in a Usenet binaries
service plan that you take advantage of the OpenVPN or PPTP privacy VPN
that is made available to you, and use TLS whenever possible on top of
that. Why? Ask Edward Snowden, Bruce Schneider and Alexander Shulgin.