On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying don't do it: I think *everyone* should, at least for a years or so, for a variety of technical, political, and other reasons. But you *cannot* go in unprepared!
I think we need more hidden services to make the darknet more attractive, less exits. The open Internet has been dead for a while, time to accept it. Running a non-exit relay from home is still worthwhile, since it raises the bar for physical access, and also increases the traffic background. Decentral search is pretty important, we could really use lots of YaCy nodes as hidden services -- indexing not just the hidden web, of course. I wish there was a library of different privacy-based appliances in virtual formats (.ovf) which are kept up to date for easy deployment (even though running it on bare iron would be preferable). That would seem to be a lot of work, though, and run into trust issues.