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I just went to xerobank.com, and then went to your 'anonymity checker': https://xerobank.com/tools/anonymity-checker/ which told me this scary stuff:

Network Legal Risk: High (fix)
Warning: ISP Spying Risk (fix)
Critical Threat: Data Interception Detected (fix)

Funny thing is, it told me exactly the same thing whether I was coming through my secure proxy or straight through my ISP. Fess up - it's just canned, and always shows the same 'warning's, right?

How about https://xerobank.com/download/index.html ? However, its Firefox is outdated. Supposedly, they are making a new one?

Assuming the document is small, you could install Xerobank (formerly TorPark) and create an account on Wikileaks and upload it to Wikileaks through the Tor onion router. Your anonymity would be assured in a hilariously sound manner.

Your website need do nothing more than link to Wikileaks and ponder how it got there.

That would be my plan of action. I would also be careful with all the machines/devices used to transfer that file.

Depending on how important/inflammable this document is, I might look into buying a cheap 20GB laptop hard drive, installing ubuntu, going to a star bucks, doing the above and then "disposing" of the drive and all media so that there are no questions. Sorry to sound like Harvey Keitel on Pulp Fiction but ... when you're dealing with serious stuff ...

My question is: would you host it if you were asked? How would you go about protecting the document and yourself?

Anonym.OS is a the way to go: http://sourceforge.net/projects/anonym-os/ Discard of the CD-ROM afterwards, or not: no trace left. Ideal for a hit&run-action. But one question: why would you upload the document and such? Just give them an account with some webspace and email-account on your server/domain, "so they can play around with php and mysql wink-wink notch-notch", and play innocent when the cease-and-desist letters come in.

My question is: would you host it if you were asked? How would you go about protecting the document and yourself?

It depends on who is asking me. There are maybe 5 or 6 people in my life that if they approached me with this request and said it was serious and said it had to be me hosting it, I would do it no questions ask. I would not read the document, I would stop them from explaining to me what is the document, I would do it and give them the link. I would then go directly to my lawyer and have a small chat with him. Then I would grab a glass of Chivas Regal and put on a record and take the battery out of my cell phone and relax.

My college uses websense, but Tor goes right through it, and with ready-packaged stuff like xB Browser and OperaTor, it's readily available for practically anyone as long as you can grab the program once (long live the sneakernet).

Not to advertise but I use XeroBank http://xerobank.com/ It uses OpenVPN to encrypt your network and run it through offshore servers at a couple of MB/s. Also provides offshore IMAP email accounts and some other free cool software.

The solution is simple for everyone in China, where they sensor the internet, and for everyone in the US, where they monitor the internet.

Install a VPN solution that tunnels your traffic through Europe or Panama. Most install an OpenVPN client on your machine and keep no logs of traffic in or out. I've used http://www.xerobank.com/ and http://www.metropipe.net/.

Problems with marketing to Asia is 1) the price is a bit high for most of them 2) actually being able to receive money from Chinese customers has always been a problem (you need to work with those pay-per-phone services which take 55% of your profit for themselves).

But services such as thosewould be a solution.

P.S. Anyone have a good payment solution for Chinese customers?