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
