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My books on a Tor hidden service

Part of the plot in Homeland revolves around "hidden services" on the Tor network. Now, a fan of mine in Norway called Tor Inge Røttum has set up a hidden service and stashed copies of all my books there. He writes:

A hidden service in Tor is a server, it can be any server, a web server, chat server, etc. A hidden service can only be accessed through Tor. When accessing a hidden service you don't need an exit node, which means that they are more secure than accessing the "clearnet" or the normal Internet (if you want). Because then the exit nodes can't snoop up what you are browsing. Hidden services are hard to locate as most of them aren't even connected to the clearnet.

I don't have any servers or computers that I can run 24/7 to host a hidden service, but fortunately there is a free webhost that is hosting websites on Tor: http://torhostg5s7pa2sn.onion.to

After creating the domain I wrote a dirty bash script to download most of Cory's books and create a HTML file linking to them. It's available on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/3YR6j8zJ

How cool is that?

5 Responses to “My books on a Tor hidden service”

1. Kristoffer says:

   February 28, 2013 at 7:02 pm

   That's cool!

   Reply
2. Tor says:

   February 28, 2013 at 7:20 pm

   Btw, the hidden service is located here: http://vt5xwaffoniq6ah2.onion.to/

   Reply
3. Simsian says:

   February 28, 2013 at 7:41 pm

   Great fan response.

   Reply
4. Simone says:

   April 5, 2013 at 2:06 am

   Very very cool! Btw, I finished (my autographed copy of) the book. It is really awesome! I commend you, Cory!

   Reply
   • Cory Doctorow says:

     April 5, 2013 at 1:29 pm

     Thanks, Simone!

     Reply

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