Hi, is it possible to have a preconfigured hidden service in Tor as I2P has? After installing I2P all a user has to do is put html files in the htdocs folder and he is ready to go. He can look up the URL of this website easily. Every noob can host a hidden eepsite. Is something like this planned for Tor? An simple, secure webserver preconfigured to only listen to 127.0.0 and ready to go? The average user(at least the ones I talk to) barely manages to set up Tor. Some people are even to computer illiterate to click on the onion symbol and choose "start Tor" any yet we need those people in the user base(more distributed trust). I know the programmer's power of the Tor project is limited (due to the number of programmers) and not everything can be implemented at the same time. And this is not a complaint. I love to participate in political discussions an be able to talk freely and without having to worry about being threatened threatened afterwards. I am very greatful for Tor. The technical side of Tor is already very advanced but all the attacks published in the last months were possible because the usability side of Tor is still lacking a lot. I know it is a common problem for everybody in the IT field to assume that the users of the IT have the same knowledge as the creators but this is not even remotely true. Yes smart project attract also smart users but what about the other 80%? What about the 80-20 rule? :) If Tor wants to be a hidden free internet within the internet it must provide a one click service to host a website like I2P. Journalists that work in Sudan, Iraq, Burma, Cuba, Russia or many, many other countries need something that works right away. Not every journalist can go to college and learn how to set up an apache server and configure it. A standard installation should be able to host html only. Tor could learn from I2P. Computer experts can then change the settings to host php, etc also. I think such a thing would spread like wildfire and the Tor user base would explode. Lots of people want to host their own sites and they would with a one click installation of a hidden service web server. I really wish I could help with programming and not only making suggestions. Long live Tor!! :) -- JT toruser@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]