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No, because the goal isn't to protect the user's data from being "leaked", it's to protect the user from the hosting site (zerobin) being forced to take down their posts.

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Quoth the project page; "Admins can still remove a document upon injunction or infringement notice… but have no way to tell if the same document has been posted again."

So what happens when Zerobin or SnipURL is ordered to take down "all posts from the same client IP address as the post with the shortened URL of ..."?

Don't log IPs? End user IP's are mostly dynamic anyway.

SnipURL doesn't seem to make that claim. They even load https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif which has a tracking cookie.

And run the entire server out of memory. 64GB of ram is cheap on servers now; you boot from a write-protected flash drive, and everything is done in memory. If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.

> If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.

That's the theory of ideal RAM, but in practice RAM is not ideally volatile. Cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

I believe that in almost all cases, the LEO tasked with seizing equipment in an operation are going to be ill-equipped to execute this attack. Now, if its the CIA or NSA after you, you have other problems.

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