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Projects like this scare me considering the issues PasteBin has in regards to sensitive data being shared illegally; and that was without encryption. I'm foreseeing legal hiccups and requirements for policing the content.


Real criminals can:

- Host such data off of a server bought with a stolen credit card and accessed via anonymous proxies.

- Use any of the normal pastebin sides out there with offline encryption methods. (E.g. use PGP + copy/paste encrypted text into browser)

- Host such data off of a hacked server.

I don't really see how ZeroBin is scary. You could even do something like this: https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns with a hacked domain account + a hacked server. I'm sure the amount of traffic could be small enough for the hack to remain hidden for a long time.




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