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Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com)
Daniel's Hosting, one of the largest providers of Dark Web hosting services, was hacked this week and taken offline, ZDNet reports. From a report: The hack took place on Thursday, November 15, according to Daniel Winzen, the software developer behind the hosting service. "As per my analysis it seems someone got access to the database and deleted all accounts," he said in a message posted on the DH portal today. Winzen said the server's root account was also deleted, and that all 6,500+ Dark Web services hosted on the platform are now gone. "Unfortunately, all data is lost and per design, there are no backups," Winzen told ZDNet in an email today. "I will bring my hosting back up once the vulnerability has been identified and fixed."
By design.
I find it quite surprising, as well. It's easier to secure backups than it is to secure an Internet facing server... as the host learned, incidentally.
I can't trust someone to make backups and store them safely, I probably would not I trust him host my server.
No good deed goes unpunished...
Big Red Button next to the front door. 'In the event of a search warrant, press"
Have gnu, will travel.
Pretty sure that they are trying to prevent a government from getting a court order to access their backup tapes, which would allow them access to all historical communications, etc... Much more information than they would keep on a running server.
That said, they should plan on running the old hardware through a chipper-shredder and re-building on a completely different hardware and OS than they were running on before.
It's dark web you nutsack, they deliberately do not make backups.
"Wow"
I find it quite surprising, as well
You should not be surprised. This is the dark web. If backups are made, they can be subpoenaed.
I can't trust someone to make backups and store them safely, I probably would not I trust him host my server.
You are missing the point. His customers are looking for someone they can trust to NOT make backups.
Anyway, good luck to Daniel and his customers. As long as we have overreaching governments grasping for power, we need the anonymity and secrecy of the dark web. Hopefully someday their activities can be done openly.
Or being gay. Or as a woman being in public without a hijab. Or smoking pot. Or all the illegal activities by all sorts of governments, sanctioned or not, in other countries that they don't want others to know about. Perhaps if the governments weren't going around doing horrible things to people your argument would hold up. As it stands, there has to be some force to try to counterbalance the excesses and abuses of government.
Because the government has no business knowing if children are being sold for child porn, or women (mainly women) are being sold into forced prostitution, or if murders are being set up.
Considering governments are guilty of doing all of those things and more, I don't see the point of them knowing. They won't stop themselves or others from doing those things, which is about the only business one would expect the government to perform, so what difference does it make?
If the government that has been caught with indisputable evidence of selling people into slavery, murder, breaking the very laws they set for themselves, and peddling in and production of child porn - what do you honestly expect them to do about other people doing those things?
If they won't stop it, exactly what is the point?
But now that your strawman has been taken down, what about all the other non-crimes that governments kidnap, rape, torture, and murder innocent people over?
What about *rescuing* victims of slavery, forced prostitution, and the children being exploited that if done in the open invites a death sentence?
I'm sure people would love to see children or women being raped in the open.
As my last statement shows, you clearly are against saving people from kidnap, rape, slavery, and murder. Why do you want those people to endure such awfulness? Why don't you want to help them, and condemn their rescuers to death?