With how many lawsuits they get and the total amounts they now have technically lost in court, how is it possible they still hide their hosting infrastructure? Anna’s archive hosts a truly monumental amount of content and its not like its exactly easy to host petabytes(?) of content in secret easily. Hell the orders for hard drives should make it easy to find them. It’s not like they can just tuck a raspberry pi with an Ethernet connection somewhere and throw up a proxy and call it a day. What kind of techniques are required to hide that amount of infrastructure? Especially under such scrutiny as the US government and many publishers coming for their throats I can’t imagine it’s a small feat.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    A proxy server is used to hide the actual application server. They also run separate servers on tor

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      That proxy server is visible (that’s my whole point) and can be forced to take it down, and very few use Tor or I2P

        • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          Using cloudflare means you’re using them as a proxy. Cloudflare can be pressured with court orders

          • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            11 hours ago

            Moving the goalposts. When you have a third party proxy on your first party proxy it’s definitely hiding

            • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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              2 hours ago

              Not moving the goal posts because if the first proxy in the chain goes down then nobody can connect to your server, even if the rest of the servers are all up