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Stephen Downes

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It's not exactly the same model, but I'll file this under 'content addressable resources for education'. And - as the headline makes clear - this particular application has its downside as well. But we should be aware it's out there. Basically, the service makes use of The Onion Router (TOR) to allow a user to host their own website anonymously from their own computer. As Wikipedia explains, "Onion routing is implemented by encryption in the application layer of a communication protocol stack, nested like the layers of an onion." OnionShare "will start a web server to host your static website and give you a .onion URL."

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