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Comment by mike-cardwell | Hacker News Reader

Another good way of setting up an anonymous website is to set up a Tor hidden service, and then allow non-Tor users to access it by handing them a tor2web.org URL: http://tor2web.org/

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It would be better to set up your own Tor2web service anonymously, then only have it host your hidden service.

Tor2web and the other gateways will remove service to a hidden service if they receive DMCA or other complaints/takedown notices so if your hidden server was about how you haxx0red the government they would have it shut down, unless of course you hosted in Russia or Egypt where they wouldn't care about western govt.

Is there something like a prebuilt tor2web-like-gateway server image? The best response to takedowns would seem to me not to be to create your own gateway (just moving your Single Point of Failure), but rather for lots of people to run "open proxy" tor2web servers, so that no individual server can enforce any takedown policy (because they'll just switch to a different server in the pool, run by someone else.)

ToR is funded by the US government.

Don't ever forget that...

It's also open source. Why does the source of the funding for the research matter? We have the code if we wish to audit it.

The design of the protocol (the spec for which is public and open) was funded by the government. What you said was akin to a mathematical discovery being made by a university with federal funding and not trusting the math because of that.

Better not use SELinux either then! Or Linux in general for that matter!

Nonsense.

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