Comment by mindslight
8 hours ago
That was my point though. Anna's Archive maintains several "open web" domains, so when one ends up getting censored it's not a big deal, they just spin up more.
8 hours ago
That was my point though. Anna's Archive maintains several "open web" domains, so when one ends up getting censored it's not a big deal, they just spin up more.
If every cybersecurity researcher starts hosting their most potent source code on a single platform, you're gonna start seeing enforcement speed up to the point where new domains are taken down in days (or faster), and there will be substantial efforts to attack the source with raids and prison time. If it gets bad enough, you will literally start to see US agents traveling internationally to perform targeted strikes. This is assuming the platform wouldn't start censoring code based on its provenance or purpose, but that would make everyone leave.
It's been proven time and time again that the only way to pull something like this off is to be completely untraceable. If the feds can ever find you, that's it. Which creates difficulty because in order for somebody to be able to visit your site with a normal web browser, they need to be able to trace something, and that can always be attacked. Even if that doesn't reach all the way to the source, it means you have to both produce infinite new traceable points and somehow distribute the knowledge to your clearweb users too.