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I'd make a great Mafioso if I weren't so squeamish about Cement Overshoes. :-D

A little bird lit on my windowsill as I was having my morning coffee today to explain Barbados Bearer Bond Corporations.

I don't know the procedure for actually incorporating, but I expect there are services in Barbados that will handle it for you for a reasonable price.

Barbados Bearer Bond Corporations are Legal People just like the United States Disney and Heartst corporations, but when one incorporates one, one is issued a bond by the Government of Barbados.

Whoever physically posseses that bond owns the corporation, so be sure to keep it in a safe place.

ProTip: don't put it in a safe deposit box; The Man can legally drill out your lock if they obtain a search warrant. Instead, when you don't actively need to use it, pack it securely in a strong, leakproof container, then bury it three feet underground out in the woods somewhere, while noting your location with a GPS.

Once you have incorporated, your Bearer Bond Corporation can be the legal holder of a bank account. I suggest you don't open that account in the United States. I don't know about Barbados in particular, but many Caribbean nations have strict bank secrecy laws. They don't have taxes either. I understand Lichtenstein is that way if you live in Europe.

Once you have that bank account, you can receive wire transfers, EFTs and paypals.

Now you need to find a way to register a domain name anonymously. I looked into that a while back, and found some registrars that pointed out they were not beholden to United States Legal Authorities, but those registrars were in law-abiding nations, and so would be vulnerable were they to be served with a warrant by their own government. One way to do it would be to set up a second bearer bond corporation, so it could be the registrant. Slashdot once reported that Turkey permits anonymous registration, but I haven't yet looked into it.

Now you need an anonymous web hosting service. There are lots of those; they will accept payment by international money order. Just be careful not to get your fingerprints on the money order, its envelope or your cover letter. I recommend PRQ of Sweden; they will host anything that's legal in Sweden, and have their own full-time legal staff to fight takedown orders; I've been doing business with PRQ - under my real name - since 2010 and cannot recommend them highly enough.

Now you set up a completely legitimate website that monetizes itself in some way that doesn't require disclosing your true identity. A real good way would be to post Software Engineering Tutorials, then get Slashdotted once you build out your site. It's not that your Slashdotting will bring your site revenue, but that all the "organic links" that result will boost the SEO of your site, so that at a later time, it will actually get more visits every day as a result of search engine referrals than it did from your Slashdotting.

So don't be in a hurry to monetize your site. If you really are in a hurry to hide your assets, fly over to Amsterdam, buy a bunch of diamonds, then leave them deeply buried underground somewhere within the European Community - so you don't face customs inspection with a pocket full of Rocks, you see. Whenever you need some cash, dig them back up, keep a few with you then sell them for cash in Amsterdam.

You would do well to build several different sites, each on a widely different topic. Each will attract a distinctly different clientele, and its hard to know ahead of time what topic for a site will pay off. Whatever you do, you want a low-maintenance site, because you don't want to have to hire a webmaster to look after your money laundering operation. Every single one of my own sites consists entirely of static documents; the closest thing I come to a web application is that I now u

http://prq.se/?p=tunnel&intl=1

PRQ is based in Sweden, and has their own ASN (read: they are their own network, connected to multiple upstream backbones)
They offer all types of services in addition to VPNs: colo, dedicated hosting, and shared hosting.

Their tunnels offer a static IP and no ports blocked (for running servers if that's your thing), so you'll want to provide your own firewalling. They use straight OpenVPN too.
They have a strict privacy policy and appear to follow it.

This is the same ISP that hosts the pirate bay too, which should give you an idea how they handle requests from certain other countries due to the whining of certain media cartels...

I've been a customer for awhile now and quite happy.
I am even planning to colo with them in the next couple of months if all goes well. (Previous data center I've been with has changed company names like three times now in the past six months, and now plans to jack their pricing up)

Where are you putting your email? On a private server? Even if you own all of the hardware and store it on your own property, the government can still get at it with a warrant.

As for a private server with some hosting company, I'd be very surprised if they protected my data with the same vigor Google would. Especially given that failure to do proper monitoring got an entire datacenter confiscated by the FBI for the actions of a single customer.

PRQ.se

Confidentiality
We defend your integrity to the end. With our discrete customer relations policy we don't even have to know who you are, and if we do we will keep it under strict secrecy. We utilize encryption heavily, and suggest that you do the same.

They also host WikiLeaks and TPB.

And if you store your own server at your property, just crypt it.

Do you live in the USA? You do realize that all data handling companies are subject to the same US laws, so move your email anywhere you want, the government can still get it at will.

Take mail hosting from prq.se (the company hosting WikiLeaks and earlier The Pirate Bay) and use SSL IMAP/POP3 to access it. Looks like a quite good package too.

Do you live in the USA? You do realize that all data handling companies are subject to the same US laws, so move your email anywhere you want, the government can still get it at will.

Take mail hosting from prq.se (the company hosting WikiLeaks and earlier The Pirate Bay) and use SSL IMAP/POP3 to access it. Looks like a quite good package too.

EFF sounds like the best course of action at this point. In the future you could consider changing host to a bit more liberal country.. http://www.prq.se/ is run by the founder of The Piratebay and supposed to be pretty good.

Part of PRQ's business is selling network tunneling services. For a small price, you can have your public tunnel end show up at PRQ in Sweden, while your real server(s) are elsewhere.

Their top advertised tunneling package, for 150 SEK/month (about €16.11), gives you unlimited bandwidth plus four static IP adresses and reverse DNS config.

Perhaps you should check some sources yourself, before your you blow the horn next time

PRQ hosts The Pirate Bay and a number of highly controversial (but legal) sites that even the most liberal people would like to see shut down. They have come under much criticism, but always defend free speech. They have a number of non-Swedish customers. Check them out!

More fun:

$ dig wikileaks.org +short
88.80.13.160
$ whois 88.80.13.160
[...]
netname: PRQ-NET-INT
[...]

This is the network of http://prq.se/, the company famous for among other things hosting The Pirate Bay. They also have a tunneling service (info in Swedish only, the company is based in Stockholm, Sweden), so that you can route your traffic through one of their static IP numbers. It appears WikiLeaks could be taking this approach.

More fun:

$ dig wikileaks.org +short
88.80.13.160
$ whois 88.80.13.160
[...]
netname: PRQ-NET-INT
[...]

This is the network of http://prq.se/, the company famous for among other things hosting The Pirate Bay. They also have a tunneling service (info in Swedish only, the company is based in Stockholm, Sweden), so that you can route your traffic through one of their static IP numbers. It appears WikiLeaks could be taking this approach.

The guys at PirateBay own an ISP. http://prq.se/ If they don't already have enough bandwidth I'm sure it won't be hard for them to increase their commitment with their bandwidth providers.

They are liable for any damages, including downtime for legal services. They have publicly confirmed that after the raid.

And most likely they will end up paying big time. Instead of just taking TPB's servers as the warrant allowed, they took all servers hosted by the same hosting provider . Most likely to make an (illegal) example, trying to make the hosting provider go bankrupt and instill fear in other hosting providers. About 200 legitimate businesses in Sweden are down right now because of this.