[volunteergrid2-l] open gateway taken down

[Jody Harris]

I took down http://bigpig.org:3457

If you do a Google search on:
"Welcome To Tahoe-LAFS!" "My nickname"

you get three hits on open Tahoe-LAFS web gateways -- one of which is mine
to our grid.

I know that there are more open gateways, including the at least one to the
Tahoe-LAFS VolunteerGrid (original), but none of the others come up on a
Google search.

Since I was unable to find any documentation on disallowing indexing of the
web gateway in the Tahoe docs, I decided to take down the gateway until I
can find a way to make it less discoverable.

I also took down the web interface to the introducer, since having that
information available gives away our introducer furl.

I do think that having an open web gateway makes the grid MUCH more usable
(so that you can access your files when you're away from your grid connected
computers, or over your phone), but I do not want to completely compromise
our grid to make that usability available.

jody
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