I live in Poland. Tor hidden services will be located in FORPSI / Aruba Cloud VPS provider in Czech Republic data center. Is this provider good for hosting Tor hidden services? My threat model is school. If I would expect subponea, it's will probably about defamation or offense of religious feelings. I do not know much about the law.
On 24/04/18 22:44, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Hubert Hauser <[email protected]> wrote: >> I want to run a few Tor hidden services. My home network is behind a >> carrier gateway NAT so I can't make server from Raspberry Pi. I consider >> run Tor hidden services on VPS. What do you think about it? Is cgNAT >> obstacle if I want to run Tor hidden services? >> > A hidden service listens to connections from a Tor daemon. The > recommended setup has both on the same machine, so the web service is > only accepting connections from the machine it is run on. It does not > need to be outwardly accessible. > > Tor will work even if you are behind NAT, assuming you do not run it > in a mode where it accepts Tor to Tor connections or Internet to Tor > connections. > > > Running a hidden service on a VPS, assuming you are not breaking the > laws in your jurisdiction, is likely the better idea. It will have > higher bandwidth and if an attacker succeeds in resolving its location > (which is possible to do and rather easy) they will get a datacenter, > not your neighborhood. > > If you are breaking laws in your jurisdiction of residence I would > highly recommend moving. Whether or not it is a better idea to > self-host in this case is a tossup. On one hand, if you self-host and > the authorities resolve your hidden service's location, they get you, > but you may have a chance to destroy evidence. On the other hand, if > you VPS-host and the authorities resolve your hidden service's > location, they may subpoena the datacenter and get your details and > also the information on the server. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 >
