good.net is fast.com
good.net is a stripped-down file-hosting service (cf. drop.io/sendthisfile.com)1 that has four “new-to-me” features:2
- You can earn money when people download your files via their affiliate program.
- Your audience can access your files via HTTPS.
- An honest dedication to free speech and free software.
- You can upload your files via FTP-over-explicit-SSL (FTPES). Their support page doesn’t list their FTPES host key fingerprint but you ”can” just barely see it at 0m36s on their FileZilla support page. Update: they’ve posted the fingerprint in their support forum. See my notes on uploading with lftp(1) for more info on securing your CLI FTP transactions.
Their servers are also hooked up to especially fat pipes. I get 5 megabytes/sec sustained with my Thinkpad T30’s wired NIC on RIT’s library network. I got 10 megabytes/sec with my Rimuhosting VPS in their Level(3) and Abovenet-connected datacenter.
Backstory
I found good.net via a link in the McGrew Security blog to good.net’s mirror of DarkOz’s giant collection of security conference videos – the “Hacker Media Archive”.
The Archive’s 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) videos alone occupy nearly 40GB…
$ curl --silent http://avondale.good.net/dl/bd/25c3/video_h264_720x576/ |
awk --assign i=0 '/.mp4"/{i=i+substr($8, 1, length($8)-1);} END {print i}'
39175
I’ve included two screen captures from the freely-licensed h264-encoded 720×576 25C3 videos at right.
In addition to the CCC videos, you can find footage and materials from DEFCON, HOPE, Black Hat, CodeCon, DeepSec, HITB, NOTACON, PhreakNIC, REcon, Shmoocon, and ToorCon. Phew!
- If you’re looking for a more ”active” filesharing tool, one that syncs files across machines for you, try Dropbox as recommended by an aspiring grocer friend of mine. They’ve even got a Linux client. [↩]
- Yes, the above manhole cover photo was taken by the Doc Searls of Linux Journal fame. [↩]
