As one of my Twixmas projects I’ve decided to reboot my OnionShare site. It’s a secure and anonymous way for someone in the world to send files straight to a Raspberry Pi on my desk over the Tor network. I had it set up for a while two blog domains ago, and today decided it’s time to plug it all back in. In order to reach it you need to use the Tor Browser, and with it visit:

http://entyms3fdn4fyl6lizog6hoztvaqkvv2njmcovslkm55xhahs7nnmiqd.onion

OnionShare was developed by Micah Lee, a programmer who develops spiffy open source privacy and security tools for journalists to better work with whistle blowers and hacked or leaked files. You can find out more about it, and other potentially useful programs at Lockdown Systems.

Larger news organisations can operate super locked-down and managed whistle blowing platforms like SecureDrop or GlobaLeaks. OnionShare is a nice, reasonably secure option for small outfits, freelance journalists or others. I’m operating a persistent (always on) version, but its most common use case is an app that someone can fire up when it’s needed and then shut it off when it isn’t.

I posted a Github Gist about how I’m running it. There are threat models around using these kinds of tools, and then the whole workflow of handling files that may or may not be malicious. Will get into it in other posts. Watch this space.

A raspberry pi in a black case that has a happy usable.tools sticker on it.