How scientists can protect their data from the Trump administration
(Micah Lee, Feb 2017)
Very comprehensive text (just like his previous one on how to secure your communication ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/569133) on the technologies of BitTorrent and how you can use it to share your data, on Tor Onion services and how to host hidden websites with it, and about OnionShare and how to use it to share data without colleagues without leaving a trace.
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/02/01/how-scientists-can-protect-their-data-from-the-trump-administration
some scientists have already begun trying to preserve government data they worry will be deleted, altered, or removed, and many are preparing to march on Washington to protest Trump’s dangerous science denialism.
If you’re an American scientist who’s worried that your data might get censored or destroyed by Trump’s radically anti-science appointees, here are some technologies that could help you preserve it, and preserve access to it.
– You can use a file-sharing technology called BitTorrent to ensure that your data always remains available to the public, with no simple mechanism for governments to block access to it.
– You can use Tor onion services — sometimes referred to as the dark web — to host websites containing your data, research, and discussion forums that governments can’t block access to — and that keep your web server’s physical location obscure.
– And you can use OnionShare, an open source tool that I developed, to securely and privately send datasets to your colleagues to hold onto in case something happens to your copy, without leaving a trace.