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Comment by throwoutway | Hacker News Reader

Wasn't expecting to find something amazing from this blog post, but this project looks amazing! and has a few big partners behind it so I hope it does not vaporware https://onionshare.org/

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Micah Lee also made Dangerzone [1] a tool to safely convert untrusted pdf files to safe-to-open pdf files, wrote the book Hacks, Leaks, and Revalations [2] and he made Tor-Browser-Launcher [3] and he's a respected investigative journalist: https://micahflee.com/

[1] https://dangerzone.rocks/

[2] https://hacksandleaks.com/

[3] https://github.com/torproject/torbrowser-launcher

I wish hosting a Tor website was as easy as Onionshare though. Start an app, point it at a dir with a rendered static site, and hand out the dot-onion to whomever you wish to show it.

I'm thinking: ephemeral websites like Opera Unite used to provide, to e.g. share a photo album for as long as you're online.

Edit: I should probably say I'm talking about the Android version. Which would be so convenient for an appliancy web server. The desktop version already do this.

In my experience hosting an onionsite is actually easier than hosting a regular website. Two or three lines in a .torrc file, then `tor -f .torrc & python -m http.server -d static` or whatever to start the webserver, and everything is handled for you (iirc doing `mkdir tor/hidden_service` might also be needed?). No need to port forward or fiddle with DNS...

Though hosting two at once is a bit of a pain ([0])..

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14321214/how-to-run-mult...

I guess I should just use Termux instead of waiting for Onionshare's Android version to reach parity.

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