Frequently Asked Questions

General

What is safe.chrwang.me?

Are there any banned categories?

Banned categories are the following, but not limited to:
Child pornography.
Virus/malware, or anything Google Safe Search would categorize as unwanted software *.
Copyrighted content. Meaning I will respond to copyright takedown notices,.. if any.
Full-length episodes of cartoons, TV shows or movies of any kind. Japanese, Chinese, Antarcticaness, I don't care.
CD drama audio files. I only know of Japanese shows that have these, but regardless of nationality.

Any of such uploads, when found, will be purged immediately without any prior notice.
Repeat offenders will have their IPs permanently blocked from accessing safe.chrwang.me website and sub-domains.
For child pornography specifically, first offenders will immediately be blocked permanently.

* When Google Safe Search detects unwanted software, Chrome's users will be alerted that anything they download from safe.chrwang.me website and sub-domains are unsafe.

Will you keep my uploads forever?

No guarantees, but expect them to be kept at least a year.

Otherwise, we also have temporary uploads feature, with which you can have your uploads be automatically deleted after a period of time.
It is disabled by default, but you can configure it through our homepage uploader's Config tab.

How can I keep track of my uploads?

User registration is currently closed. Contact cwang7@caltech.edu if you believe you should already have an account, but don't.

What are albums?

Albums are a simple way of sorting/categorizing uploads together.
You can share public links to these albums, allowing everyone else to view pretty listings of the uploads in them.
Albums can also be downloaded as ZIP-archives.
Both of these features can be toggled per-album basis from the Dashboard.

I saw something too illegal for my tastes here, what should I do?

Send a strongly worded email to cwang7@caltech.edu.
These include copyright takedown notices and reports about uploads violating banned categories.

How can I support safe.chrwang.me?

Thanks! No donations necessary.

Technical

What are the allowed extensions here?

We support any file extensions, except the following:
.bash_profile .bash .bashrc .bat .bsh .cmd .com .csh .exe .exec .jar .msi .nt .profile .ps1 .psm1 .scr .sh

Why are my .htm/.html uploads being served as plain text?

There had been too many phishing pages being uploaded in the past.

Where is the server located?

California, USA.

Do you have a No-JS uploader form?

How do I delete my own account and all the uploads associated with it?

For now, you will also have to contact me through my email above.
A feature to delete your own account by yourself is still work in progress.
Otherwise, if you do not mind a record of your username being left here, it should be easy to bulk delete all your uploads from the Dashboard anyway.

Privacy

What information is kept with uploads?

The uploader's IP address.

What information is kept with users?

Technically, none.
After all, not even an email address is required to register an account.
Anything will do as your usernames, and passwords are also encrypted.
If a registered user has not uploaded anything even once, then I will not even be able to associate it to any specific IP address.

Why do you need to keep my IP address?

Security purposes.
For instance, if it is necessary to purge uploads from a specific IP address due to abuse, it will help a lot to be able to find all uploads by that specific uploader.
My safe have been plagued by aplenty of abuse, so this policy will remain as long as the safe lives on.

Does the server have some sort of access logs?

Yes.
The logs contain each visitor's IP address.
This is required by our automated system, that checks logs in real time to detect and punish abuse, such as DDoS attempts, scanners, and so on.
Logs are rotated daily, and the server will only keep the last 10 logs.
So you can be assured that the logs will only be kept for 10 days at most.

I still have more unanswered questions!