New secure image and text sharing site.

I just wanted to let the community know about a neat little encrypted image sharing site that has recently been launched by a VPN (among many other things) provider I use; I figured this would be of some use to this community. It also has a secure text sharing mechanism and the text and images will only be stored on the server for a limited period of time (currently they are thinking around a week).

This site has some merit to it for the whole University of Pittsburgh bomb threat re-mailer fiasco. I may be getting my stories crossed but I believe the way they ended up finding him (because the re-mailer really didn't keep logs), was they found and interrogated the only person that was using tor in the area at the time the email was sent and he cracked (found because he was using the school network).

The provider is Riseup.net and the link to the sharing site is https://share.riseup.net/.

Here's a quote from the 'announcement':

https://share.riseup.net is a easy to use client-encrypted "pastebin" and "imagebin", and it's hosted by your friendly neighborhood tech collective. When you share a file, it is encrypted before leaving your computer, so we don't ever have a copy of what you are sharing.

This kind of client-side encryption, where the program comes from the server, is easy to bypass if the provider decides to add a back door. We don't have a back door, but it is difficult to verify this. In other words, encryption in the browser is useful for the service provider, Riseup in this case, because we are not storing secrets on behalf of users, but it does not guarantee your confidentiality. For real security, you need to use an encryption application that is not web-based.

This site has always seemed honest to me and they provide a great VPN service as well as squirrelmail.

They also have this really cool service called 'pad.' It's an Etherpad site that supports only HTTPS and has a tor hidden service. You can find the root site at https://pad.riseup.net or join one I've made at https://pad.riseup.net/p/darknetmarkets.

Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with Riseup and do not endorse using their services for illegal activities. I am merely providing a solution for staying secure online.


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Riseup - Share (THS):

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(requires JavaScript, as does the clearnet URL)