To bee completely open, this website is hosted on ‘the cloud’. I don’t care how much technical knowledge you may have (opsec), the takeaway is just assume ‘LEO knows who posted what, when, where and how’. Think about it, who provides your Internet (house, phone, laptop)? Comcast, Verizon, ATT, T-mobile, have all been known to record all user data and provide federal and state LEO with that user data. VPN companies world wide have been subverted proving that method of privacy to be shaky.
For the record I have never given up account information and have run the site in the most secure way (to an end users personal data) I know how. This includes encrypting passwords, encryption of site data at rest, GNU/Linux(OS) hardening, network security and I have never and will never sell or give user data of any kind to anyone (unless you post it publicly). This includes not hosting ads, which have a way of exposing users. I have never received an order from a LEO of any kind, nor am I a LEO. I have removed all account related info for any user in all backups and active databases upon request. We do the best we can to use secure login methods and data practice.
This is not an anonymous decentralized discussion board capable of diverting high level censorship using peer-to-peer technology. This is a centralized online forum for sharing information, protected under the 1st amendment and many similar US state laws, hosted in the US.
This is an amazing community with knowledgeable and humble users, I would give my left nut to see us actively use something secure and censorship free. If 10% of users dedicated 15 gigs of storage space and some bandwidth and exist as their own hosting company this would be the most legit thing ever. idk how to make it happen tbh, open to suggestions (ZeroNet, IPFS, GNUnet over I2p/tor?)
We allow connections over TOR(exit nodes) and known VPN nodes. If you EVER have an issue accessing this site let me know. TOR server wouldn’t be hard, I just worry about finding or creating the appropriate secure hosting.
… Callin me a “honey pot”, thems fightin words.
We run on open source software across the board. Always open to suggestions.