[ComputerGuru]

No, because the goal isn't to protect the user's data from being "leaked", it's to protect the user from the hosting site (zerobin) being forced to take down their posts.

[billpg]

Quoth the project page; "Admins can still remove a document upon injunction or infringement notice… but have no way to tell if the same document has been posted again."

[marshray]

So what happens when Zerobin or SnipURL is ordered to take down "all posts from the same client IP address as the post with the shortened URL of ..."?

[kcima]

Don't log IPs? End user IP's are mostly dynamic anyway.

[toomuchtodo]

And run the entire server out of memory. 64GB of ram is cheap on servers now; you boot from a write-protected flash drive, and everything is done in memory. If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.

[dexen]

> If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.

That's the theory of ideal RAM, but in practice RAM is not ideally volatile. Cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

[toomuchtodo]

I believe that in almost all cases, the LEO tasked with seizing equipment in an operation are going to be ill-equipped to execute this attack. Now, if its the CIA or NSA after you, you have other problems.

[marshray]

SnipURL doesn't seem to make that claim. They even load https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif which has a tracking cookie.