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