i've been thinking about this a lot. stefan also uses windows, which is strange since it's so hard to hack windows unless you work for microsoft. things i've noted - people supporting libre ecosystems in public have been getting hurt - microsoft and google are doing way more open source stuff than before - i can't get off google. i don't know how. - well-funded efforts have been surrounding people, pretending to be the majority maybe those four items are related to this PS: i actually clicked the 'groups.joogle' link and was like 'wtf why won't this load'. Here's stefan's message from the other list. I don't believe you actually need to open any firewall ports, and the onion approach is quite old but always great to re-engage. I downloaded TBB to try it out but my glibc is too old for the new TBB so i might make it work later, dunno. Pasted message below: Hi all, a while ago I said that I like to set-up a Nym requester for YAMN and Mixmaster users. This requires a paid server from my side and I do not gain nothing from that, while the Nym Network made already a lot of money. I am currently investigating in running an own Tor Hidden Service on my local Windows PC, where users can do the same and then communicate with their friends, without needing to use third party servers, like Remailers, Tor email services etc. This shoud have the advantage that every a.p.a-s user can theoretically run a cheap Raspberry Pi at home 24/7 while having his own .onion URL and no need to purchase a VPS or Domain. I am currently looking around what services one can run on his own server at home. If you visit: wwfokt2ttwfbjfwlei25ue37mkemzgepxtmqb4axgecoculgzbqdwhad.onion you can see that I have there software installed on my local Windows PC which would allow you to exchange messages. There is also client software available for this so that users could via socat send files between each other. I will let run this server a little while until I go to bed so that you get an idea. Please, if you run also .onion sites on the Internet, share what else we can do to have decentralized .onion comms, without no middleman servers, besides the Tor nodes. Regards Stefan spam.tra...@gmail.com (2 hours ago) The software I use under Windows 10: The Tor Expert Bundle. https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ Configuration tips: https://miloserdov.org/?p=1839 and the Golang server: https://github.com/schollz/cowyo And you need to open your firewall port. Regards Stefan