who are the service operators here?

[xlene]

On 12/10/13 03:35, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> 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
coreOS also has potential still has some bugs but looks promising.