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Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#11
7TB of compressed text? I don't think humanity has generated that much written words in it's entire existence. Although it would be an interesting Fermi Problem to estimate (and don't forget just how well text compresses).

This has to be a lot of duplicates or bad formats (images). This would be far more useful to people with some curating.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#12
post #7

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site. They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

The same thing you always get. Assurance that your free Wi-Fi hotspot isn’t tampering with the page.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#14
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

Do you really want your ISP to know which piracy sites you frequent? This is all being sent in plain text. Or they could change the content, insert a redirect, or inject ads without your knowledge. TLS is needed on all websites - not just those with interaction.

They still know which sites you visit even with https.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#15

It's really funny to think about how the advances of technology keeps changing how we perceive books. 7TB is even a commodity disk these days. And it's a lot less than the torrent of scientific papers that floated around some time ago (that was ~18TB IIRC).

It's 7TB compressed. If it's text you'd need about 70TB to decompress it. It's probably mostly images though, so probably not quite that bad.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

Do you really want your ISP to know which piracy sites you frequent? This is all being sent in plain text. Or they could change the content, insert a redirect, or inject ads without your knowledge. TLS is needed on all websites - not just those with interaction.

https won't keep your ISP from knowing you visited the site. And the rest of those? For a text-only blog, they seem kinda trivial.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#18
> We will release the data in stages, as we are still processing the files. Right now the metadata file and a few of the torrents are available. Note that the torrent files are only available through our TOR mirror.

Presently, only the first four of several dozens of parts are available.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really want your ISP to know which piracy sites you frequent? This is all being sent in plain text. Or they could change the content, insert a redirect, or inject ads without your knowledge. TLS is needed on all websites - not just those with interaction.

https won't keep your ISP from knowing you visited the site. And the rest of those? For a text-only blog, they seem kinda trivial.

> For a text-only blog

If somebody MITMs it, they can serve you anything they want.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really want your ISP to know which piracy sites you frequent? This is all being sent in plain text. Or they could change the content, insert a redirect, or inject ads without your knowledge. TLS is needed on all websites - not just those with interaction.

https won't keep your ISP from knowing you visited the site. And the rest of those? For a text-only blog, they seem kinda trivial.

only the destination IP. TLS encryption is inside tcp and around the http protocol.
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