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Tailscale exit node on a cheap vps and you're golden. Well as long as the stuff you're doing is "legal". It's still traceable back to you.

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How well do subpoenas work across international borders, especially when the charge isn't illegal in the recieving jurisdiction?

(asking for a friend, obvs)

Things like torrenting will get you quickly shut down by the provider. My friend found this out while considering setting up their own seedbox.

Sounds like your friend was VPNing to the wrong jurisdiction.

PulsedMedia (Finland), IHostArt (Romania) and many other seedbox server providers exist and will not shut you down.

Highly recommend Whatbox.ca - i run a “pirate netflix” for all my family and friends off one cheap VPS. It also provides me with a more censorship-resistant VPN than most usual VPN providers. Many VPN services were blocked in GCC countries but not my private whatbox server VPN.

iirc ihostart actually host their servers in their basement, which is bad for reliability but perfectly fine for this use case. The operator also claimed to be an 18 years old, not sure if it's true but if it does I applaud their entrepreneurship spirit at such a young age.

very well as long as the country has an extradition treaty with your home country (if US, almost all you'd ever travel to does)

Nobody cares if it’s not terrorism or national security

Which VPS provider did you go with?

I tried AlphaVPS and another and I had no luck with the traffic routing out of the VPS. Went with a droplet in DigitalOcean in the end that's managed through Portainer. Works a treat and equivalently cheap.

1984.hosting

payable with Monero

Do you know any similar hosts that attempt to provide shielded VMs?

Would Mullvad count? You can even pay anonymously by mailing cash.

Hm, I don't know if Mullvad uses shielded VMs for their infra. I guess it would be neat, but I'm more talking about privacy-oriented generic-hosting providers that provided shielded VMs.

Maybe it's just where my head is at, but I look at something like the GP's post and go "cool!" and then realize that such a property would be a prime example of a honeypot. Do I think there are individuals interested in offering low-margin "privacy" VPS services that accept crypto? Yes. But also, I suspect there's plenty of intelligence outfits that would spin up such a project as a fun side project to spy on guest VMs. :| Unbounded money goes a long way. And while I like to cosplay paranoia, I just have to assume that clients of such services are seeking anonymity for Reasons.

Shielded VMs + monero payments would at least move the bar up to "you need to be a target worth leaning on AMD/Intel for shielded-vm compromise".

Granted, I think you could also create infra architecture that allows you to treat these cannon-fodder, but I digress.

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