Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians

Has anyone or is anyone working on displaying a HTML header above sites(or kind of an &#x27;accept cookies&#x27; type of HTML UI) for Russian geoblocks that says something like &quot;Please consider telling your government to stop the war on Ukraine&quot;.<p>I read earlier that Pornhub blocked Russian IPs completely and is showing a message but total blocking comes with its own downsides.

I feel bad about all the attention this is getting. It happened because I asked myself &quot;what can I do to help Ukrainians&quot;, and frankly it&#x27;s costing me peanuts -- Tarsnap doesn&#x27;t have a huge number of Ukrainian users. (As far as I&#x27;m aware, at least, hence my emailing the tarsnap-announce list to encourage other Ukrainians to identify themselves to me.) I didn&#x27;t mean for this to turn into a publicity stunt!<p>But while I&#x27;m writing -- if you&#x27;re looking for something you can do to help: Please contact your elected representatives and encourage them to allow visa-free travel to Ukrainian citizens. Ireland has already done this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.ie&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;00aef-minister-mcentee-announces-immediate-lifting-of-visa-requirements-between-ukraine-and-ireland&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.ie&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;00aef-minister-mcentee-a...</a>) and I wrote to my MP yesterday to encourage Canada to follow suit. This war is going to displace millions of civilians and while Putin&#x27;s threats of nuclear war may prevent NATO from defending Ukraine, at least we can step up to help the refugees.

Class act by Colin. Least we operators of SaaS can do in these awful times.

proves once again to me the tarsnap people a class act!

Nice gesture but I don&#x27;t think unilaterally implementing policies on the basis of someone&#x27;s speculated nationality -- based on analysis of their private data -- is the role of private companies

As well intentioned as this seems, it strikes me as a bit tone deaf. Ukrainians are hiding in bomb shelters, not backing up bulk data. I struggle to understand in what manner this helps.

This is charitable of cpervica and tarsnap; that said, for many people, it&#x27;s probably easier and safer (and you&#x27;ll receive greater legal protection, long-term) to proceed by uploading your (even pre-encrypted) documents to Google Drive or a similar cloud-based storage system.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong - I like encryption and pushing the envelope for what&#x27;s possible in terms of keeping content private for the general public. But I get a weird sense that this is like some kind of phishing-for-valuable-(meta)data expedition.