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Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a darknet dropbox type thing?

10 points by Kylesan 9y ago

Hey everyone! I created a nice alternative to dropbox that's 100% encrypted and is anonymous. Each account comes with there own .onion url and has all the same abilities as dropbox accept the added feature to be able to code in a built in IDE. Is this something anyone would be interested in? Let me know your thoughts! Thanks!

detaro 9y ago
Set up a website and submit a Show HN instead of asking if people care every few hours please.
- Mz 9y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
whatnotests 9y ago
The FBI certainly would be interested!
bhcc 9y ago
I think you could easily start with forks of ZeroNet (distributed TOR hosting): https://zeronet.io https://zeronet.io https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet and either: SecureDrop: https://securedrop.org https://securedrop.org https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop or NextCloud: https://nextcloud.com https://nextcloud.com https://github.com/nextcloud https://github.com/nextcloud Though basically you're just routing .onion at a bucket. Another thing to look at would be building on https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/supported_providers.html https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/supported_provider... or https://jclouds.apache.org/ https://jclouds.apache.org/ https://jclouds.apache.org/reference/providers/ https://jclouds.apache.org/reference/providers/ And providing a storage target. Though you have to consider the possibility of seizure of the host[s] by the service providers state. See: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/06/10/french-police-seized-tor-relays-wannacry-investigation/ https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/06/10/french-police-seized-t... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-police-seize-two-tor-relays-in-wannacry-investigation/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-police...
- Kylesan 9y ago
  It's already created :p
- m-p-3 9y ago
  I suppose a mix of Tor + Storj could do it
bromonkey 9y ago
What benefit does this service provide over onionshare? https://onionshare.org/ https://onionshare.org/
- Kylesan 9y ago
  Well there two different things. Darkbox is a cloud file hosting service. It has the ability to make custom .Onion urls to share files but includes much more like a built in IDE for code and text processing, video and photo viewing, and much more!
richardknop 9y ago
I hope you are using a throwaway account to ask this question.