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Finally, after 4 months, I can reach beehaw again. Was beehaw under attack? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by debanqued@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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For the past four months beehaw has been unreachable to those of us on the Tor network. Glad to see access was finally restored. Was there an attack?

I could really use a way to periodically backup my posts to my local disk so if Tor is spontaneously blocked again I at least have my history. I’ve not found a Lemmy equivalent for Mastodon Archive.

(edit) For security, it would be a good idea to setup an onion instance. The Tor network has built-in DDoS protection for onion hosts.

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Privacy focused VPNs usually have tech to mitigate that like forgetting as soon as they have gone through the server for example, but I get that can be undone.

[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It’s worse than being reversible. The problem is that it’s unprovable. A switch from “zero logging” to “log everything” is wholly undetectible to users. You have to rely on blind faith that a profit-driven entity will act in your interest and resist their opportunity to profit from data collection. All you have is trust. Tor avoids that whole dicey mess and reliance on trust.