From 13315a2c96852f1f97a6b6c89594ebef344fc9b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deathrow Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 22:12:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add Note. --- README.md | 2 ++ index.md | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d10379e..72dfd15 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ All data regarding **ALL** of our services is gone. Only the Git mirrors remain. + > Hosing publicly usable services which provides benefits to anonymity are a great way to help the community. Unfortunately, these become difficult to manage & maintain. Many services including our Tor node and Matrix server were prone to being abused. To effectively combat abuse, this would require us to use privacy-invasive measures. Our hosting provider - 1984, the host we used for everything, decided to delete the entire VPS without notice. We received no emails or alerts on such actions. There could be a number of reasons for this - primarily being abuse. Our Tor exit node hosted on Njalla was shutdown after malicious user(s) conducted several brute-force attacks. Njalla has become ridiculously expensive to operate with, providing no real upgrades, and you are limited to a small amount of storage. While hosting services is great, it's even more difficult to do such with little to no donations, and a wide variety of malicious actors conducting abuse on such services. Services may be available in the future, but for now we best stick with this website, and this website only. + > Anonymity, Privacy, Security
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 279dd6f..b4422ea 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ description: A fun happy place. Our VPS provider- 1984 deleted the entire VPS without notice. All data regarding **ALL** of our services is gone. Only the Git mirrors remain. + + > Hosing publicly usable services which provides benefits to anonymity are a great way to help the community. Unfortunately, these become difficult to manage & maintain. Many services including our Tor node and Matrix server were prone to being abused. To effectively combat abuse, this would require us to use privacy-invasive measures. Our hosting provider - 1984, the host we used for everything, decided to delete the entire VPS without notice. We received no emails or alerts on such actions. There could be a number of reasons for this - primarily being abuse. Our Tor exit node hosted on Njalla was shutdown after malicious user(s) conducted several brute-force attacks. Njalla has become ridiculously expensive to operate with, providing no real upgrades, and you are limited to a small amount of storage. While hosting services is great, it's even more difficult to do such with little to no donations, and a wide variety of malicious actors conducting abuse on such services. Services may be available in the future, but for now we best stick with this website, and this website only.