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>Official papers indicate that the operator of Anna’s Archive proved “unidentifiable” but with assistance from Cloudflare, Epinatura LLC – a hosting provider in

>Official papers indicate that the operator of Anna’s Archive proved “unidentifiable” but with assistance from Cloudflare, Epinatura LLC – a hosting provider in Kiev, Ukraine – was identified as the likely host of at least some of the platform’s servers.

tux3 3y ago
Anna's Archive has a blog where they describe their infra. They have multiple DNS names, each of which might map to a subset of backend servers from different providers. So in theory if Cloudflare cooperates, at least one of the provider is burned, but not all. Another problem is that with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP. Looking at who seeds Anna's torrents, you can very readily see the first seed currently flows through an IP in Ukraine. That's another way adversaries might identify your providers. They seem to have prepared for this situation when they built the infra with multi DNS and multi provider in mind. But the cat and mouse game is harder when the providers (like Cloudflare) immediately cooperate. And harder still when you're seeding your own torrents vs just hosting a page through a CDN.
- Sunhold 3y ago
  https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
- justinclift 3y ago
  > with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP. Seeding over Tor should work though. So although it's technically a public IP, it's also just a cut-out (from the uploaders perspective).
  - tux3 3y ago
    Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged. It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself, and while the Tor network benefits from people casually browsing the Web to provide anonimity for others, large amounts of Bittorrent traffic would strain the network. Especially with a >400 TiB and quickly growing collection https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/ https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...
    - justinclift 3y ago
      > Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged. Of course, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't technically work for the situations that don't have (safe) alternatives. > It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself ... Using Tails would pretty much solve that yeah?
walteweiss 3y ago
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- lupusreal 3y ago
  That's how nearly everybody using English was spelling it until about two years ago. A lot of people have either not gotten the update (not tuned into political trends), or have deliberately refused it.
  - walteweiss 3y ago
    Not two years ago, longer [1]. Apart from that it’s correct. Since two years ago it became a ‘I don’t give a duck’ or ‘I support Russia’ statement, which is the same quite often. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev
    - lupusreal 3y ago
      An online campaign since 2018 doesn't refute me, the name change didn't gain traction until 2022. Before the intensification of the war in 2022, most of the English speaking world wasn't paying much attention to Ukraine.
      - walteweiss 3y ago
        The official name change happened in 1991. It gained traction since 2022, as Ukrainians become less tolerant to ‘we don’t give a duck, we used to old ways’ of the Western audience. Personally, I’ve seen countless times they downvote and/or flag you for this. Waiting for that dang to come here and tell me I’m violating the rules by saying that. That way you see this correction not that often.
- surgical_fire 3y ago
  Names of places in different languages is often tricky. Do you write Munich when referring to the city in Bavaria? Or do you bother to write München referring to the city in Bayern, following the German spelling? Do you call that famous far east Asian country as Nihon instead of Japan? In the language of the country I came from (which is very, very far from both Russia and Ukraine), the spelling used for Ukraine's capital is Kiev, without any specific political connotation. It is the spelling I normally end up using without giving it much of a thought.
costco 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Epinatura is https://www.urdn.com.ua https://www.urdn.com.ua. They host VPNs and some other notorious pirate services. I think in 2015 or so they had all their servers confiscated by the SBU but I guess they got them back.

tux3 3y ago

Anna's Archive has a blog where they describe their infra. They have multiple DNS names, each of which might map to a subset of backend servers from different providers. So in theory if Cloudflare cooperates, at least one of the provider is burned, but not all. Another problem is that with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP. Looking at who seeds Anna's torrents, you can very readily see the first seed currently flows through an IP in Ukraine. That's another way adversaries might identify your providers. They seem to have prepared for this situation when they built the infra with multi DNS and multi provider in mind. But the cat and mouse game is harder when the providers (like Cloudflare) immediately cooperate. And harder still when you're seeding your own torrents vs just hosting a page through a CDN.

Sunhold 3y ago
https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
justinclift 3y ago
> with torrents you have to do the initial seed from some public IP. Seeding over Tor should work though. So although it's technically a public IP, it's also just a cut-out (from the uploaders perspective).
- tux3 3y ago
  Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged. It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself, and while the Tor network benefits from people casually browsing the Web to provide anonimity for others, large amounts of Bittorrent traffic would strain the network. Especially with a >400 TiB and quickly growing collection https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/ https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-id...
  - justinclift 3y ago
    > Bittorrent over Tor is generally discouraged. Of course, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't technically work for the situations that don't have (safe) alternatives. > It's _very_ easy to accidentally de-anonimize yourself ... Using Tails would pretty much solve that yeah?

walteweiss 3y ago

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lupusreal 3y ago
That's how nearly everybody using English was spelling it until about two years ago. A lot of people have either not gotten the update (not tuned into political trends), or have deliberately refused it.
- walteweiss 3y ago
  Not two years ago, longer [1]. Apart from that it’s correct. Since two years ago it became a ‘I don’t give a duck’ or ‘I support Russia’ statement, which is the same quite often. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev
  - lupusreal 3y ago
    An online campaign since 2018 doesn't refute me, the name change didn't gain traction until 2022. Before the intensification of the war in 2022, most of the English speaking world wasn't paying much attention to Ukraine.
    - walteweiss 3y ago
      The official name change happened in 1991. It gained traction since 2022, as Ukrainians become less tolerant to ‘we don’t give a duck, we used to old ways’ of the Western audience. Personally, I’ve seen countless times they downvote and/or flag you for this. Waiting for that dang to come here and tell me I’m violating the rules by saying that. That way you see this correction not that often.
surgical_fire 3y ago
Names of places in different languages is often tricky. Do you write Munich when referring to the city in Bavaria? Or do you bother to write München referring to the city in Bayern, following the German spelling? Do you call that famous far east Asian country as Nihon instead of Japan? In the language of the country I came from (which is very, very far from both Russia and Ukraine), the spelling used for Ukraine's capital is Kiev, without any specific political connotation. It is the spelling I normally end up using without giving it much of a thought.

costco 3y ago

I'm pretty sure Epinatura is https://www.urdn.com.ua https://www.urdn.com.ua. They host VPNs and some other notorious pirate services. I think in 2015 or so they had all their servers confiscated by the SBU but I guess they got them back.