Ever since Pastebin revealed its plans to rid the site of hackers and their data dumps, hacktivists have tried to find not only ways of protest, but also alternatives. Now, they’ve launched AnonPaste, a website that’s meant as a secure version of Pastebin.
The service’s availability was announced on April 17, when Anonymous representatives and the Peoples Liberation Front (PLF) issued a press release.
“As many might be aware, PasteBin has been in the news lately for making some rather shady claims as to what they are willing to censor, and when they are willing to give up IP addresses to the authorities,” the founders of AnonPaste wrote.
“And as a recent leak of private E-Mails show clearly, PasteBin is not only willing to give up IP addresses to governments – but apparently has already given many IPs to at least one private security firm. And these leaked E-Mail’s also revealed a distinct animosity towards Anonymous. And so the PLF and Anonymous have teamed up to offer a paste service truly free of all such nonsense.”
The list of benefits offered by AnonPaste includes the fact that connections are not logged and all the pastes are encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption. Moreover, the encryption is applied at browser level, which theoretically means that the site’s servers will not store any “usable” data.
Other advantages include the inexistence of moderation or censorship.
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