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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 p

by 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?

by tux3 3y ago

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?