Let’s keep iterating on the takedown evasion strategies until they’re impenetrable. It’s the only hope the People have of actually being in control of anything important.
TOR is already pretty easy to access via TOR browser so anything else that requires additional client software is probably not going to have better adoption.
The site is up but it's no longer what it once was. It's disappeared from news reports. Nor has another one taken its place.
After the prosecution of Assange and Manning and with Snowden in exile, they've mandated to basically stop the whole whistleblower phenomenon in its tracks. Which was probably a bigger goal than one easily-replaced website.
It feels a bit like the Arab spring, a lot of hope in the beginning and then it all fizzled out.
that comic did a huge disservice to computer security and still being thrown around after years.
there's a huge difference in knowing that your data has been compromised (you hand out the keys to avoid torture) and not knowing, that alone justifies every hoop you have to jump around to have your data encrypted.
besides, it doesn't apply here since onion services were created specifically to host content anonimously, they don't know who to torture.
