I have even heard of people taking out a classified ad in a newspaper to publish the md5sum (or any other hashing key) in the newspaper as a way to prove that something was created/occurred prior to the published date. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > > > Has the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/ take a copy of the > > sites? > > > > In the same spirit as this, have you considered some non-traditional and > less > essoteric methods? For instance, start a window or screen recording of a VM > that is browing the site, and act as if the subject/user visiting the site. > Then, upload the video to youtube in a private link. Or, take the file and > PGP/GPG encrypt it, sign it and extract either a hash or a fingerprint and > send that to an email account held by a third party, say Gmail. > > I believe that if you ever get into littigation against anyone, it would be > best to have your evidence held by a third party. And by evidence we must > include the timestamp, which seems to be a key piece of information. In > both > cases I mentioned a third party holds that; in the former it is the youtube > upload date and in the latter the received date of the email held by gmail. > You can involve a fourth party, like a Yahoo account, if needed. > > This can all be done with the help of an attorney acting as a leagal third > party, but it will not be as free as an email with the fingerprint. > > I use the second method all the time for scanned hand-written documents and > other such items. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180206/98c5c186/attachment.html>