Trigger warning: This entire reply is going to be shameless (though non-profit) self-promotion.
The current state of diversity in Onion Land is disappointing. So many of the sites still online emphasize things like drugs, porn, and hacking. I think everyone would benefit from a wider swath of the population getting involved in hosting hidden services. Consequently, I'm specing out a FLOSS desktop self-publishing software using node-webkit and Tor (set up to use Hidden Services). Some of the ideas I have already include: * Simple integration with an Onionimbus provider. https://github.com/darkitecht/onionimbus_system/wiki * Namecoin integration If anyone's interested, I'll set up a repo in the AM. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Thomas White <thomaswh...@riseup.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > As per Nick's post, I fully agree that hidden services do need some > work, but I imagine the vast majority of people on this list are not > skilled in the languages and areas required to do any kind of > technical reform to them. However, technical reform of them is only > one aspect. > > I've been launching a few of my own hidden services recently with some > useful things such as Tor project mirrors, as well as my own > client-side encrypted file host/sync which I've currently got in > private beta (email me privately if you want to give it a test drive). > In order to make hidden services a bigger priority and to potentially > attract more funding from sponsors to Tor Project, I think we as a > community need to make better use of them. They are end to end > encryption, thus have held up very well against nation state attackers > like the NSA and GCHQ, and they do not require exits and that makes > use of the underutilised capacity of the non-exit relays in the network. > > If anyone has any thoughts on what they would like to see as a hidden > service, I am all ears to suggestion. Whether you can build it or not > (so yeah, even if it is just an idea throw it at me) I'd love to know > what you want to see in hidden services. > > One of the primary ideas in the works right now for myself is a shared > host environment which I and a few others are experimenting with ideas > for, but the premise is each person would be assigned a small virtual > machine and they could host Wordpress blogs for example, or whatever > else that would make people more comfortable using hidden services. > > So to conclude - if you've got ideas, I'd love to hear them! > > Happy new year all, > T > > > - -- > Activist, anarchist and a bit of a dreamer. > > PGP Keys: key.thecthulhu.com > Current Fingerprint: E771 BE69 4696 F742 DB94 AA8C 5C2A 8C5A 0CCA 4983 > Key-ID: 0CCA4983 > Master Fingerprint: DDEF AB9B 1962 5D09 4264 2558 1F23 39B7 EF10 09F0 > Key-ID: EF1009F0 > > Twitter: @CthulhuSec > XMPP: thecthulhu at jabber.ccc.de > XMPP-OTR: 4321B19F A9A3462C FE64BAC7 294C8A7E A53CC966 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUpKaOAAoJEFwqjFoMykmDtGgP+wSEngr2lnqLDRMvmczb2EsM > yVBw+A0b+qZjFu4U0rJuyFh3SFyCGggm5Wzzphnw40mRgBs/7JMo2CUSdv4MJKg5 > yvvxkDJDI3dZxkH4EiWGb/dr8j3G8LXOYSDUXObHTu89xg0b0N9qP8wc0hMuhesm > mAXAZl/MAESvnBLfX8YxoM6sT3Uohl1py+rN1icfBSrUqhLDvaRP7e5Lm127gYRj > OCvOtHp4GGL6CXIZdXQz9u0xmGXDiytZptE7pZDC3IUOIg0mVxxJs13NEDrv95lA > RQ8kKvcegcMLOj79KHfZ8BL7RtLbp8d9kbVL6jy/Wk+NTWTDc1zQNk+DZ/aQdekJ > JH/5bxZRLvigfxGqZuOJfe6RcqKLaXikf02BSYM0szwQArtBvY5U62h83Z3biCRC > dVq89HKvoP6rvxpMfsd0fW3RfiGTf/6IGxUTExOiNQBd+0c5c6Bx7aeyZMsQiMQ2 > +aDu9ioQ6Dy/4wzbXpzStU/a1g+eiVKFBmWIz6vg2ePW3YcsHKp00qnd17p4Jxox > 0+LP0agC8F/Y/Ga0oruZm9bqAKa/sHpkiEQFBD5NTzAwSAMwFerd6V48fJrZpYnh > J65q6dl10Gj487tfMdiOctAmALhC9MCwtbDnnEJLZbqFww5asHs01g4+UxQYDzOA > vUpdVXXucQRC/47kzKOz > =wNYn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
