On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 01:42:13PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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.
Hmmm, I hadn't heard of YaCy before, thanks for the mention!
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.
OVF is a dead end AFAICS. It's not perfect, but the combination of Chef/Puppet (to specify + install + configure the software stack) plus Vagrant (to specify + install + configure the base VM) seems like a more fruitful path forward. There are some missing pieces; for example, it's regrettably common in current Cookbooks and Vagrantfiles to download unsigned-and-unhashed code from the network and trust it. But that's fixable with more hashing and content addressed storage. -andy