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

10 points·Kylesan··9 comments

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!

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Set up a website and submit a Show HN instead of asking if people care every few hours please.

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The FBI certainly would be interested!

I think you could easily start with forks of

ZeroNet (distributed TOR hosting): https://zeronet.io https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

and either: SecureDrop: https://securedrop.org https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop

or NextCloud: https://nextcloud.com 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.readthedocs.io/en/latest/supported_provider... or https://jclouds.apache.org/ 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-t...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-police...

I suppose a mix of Tor + Storj could do it

It's already created :p

What benefit does this service provide over onionshare? https://onionshare.org/

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!

I hope you are using a throwaway account to ask this question.

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