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Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 3:22 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by mason240 » Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 3:23 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

asadlionpk wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He can use Cloudflare for now. Free plan has HTTPS too.

Nothing says anonymity like a global CDN that "infected" an incredible of websites. No thanks! Keep it local on your server please.

Is that why I have been seeing a Cloudflare redirect message at most sites I've visted this week?

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by nether » Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

idiotclock wrote: post #5

I think the name, anoncat, is very clever. Maybe I'm predisposed for cat-like-things. But anyway the application is very clever too. How come you store the chat messages?

Then you'll love https://crypto.cat/

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by finnn » Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 6:36 PM UTC

snissn wrote: post #19

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing says anonymity like a global CDN that "infected" an incredible of websites. No thanks! Keep it local on your server please.

Link?

Link to what? https://www.cloudflare.com ?

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by aw3c2 » Wed, Feb 04, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

mason240 wrote: post #22

aw3c2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing says anonymity like a global CDN that "infected" an incredible of websites. No thanks! Keep it local on your server please.

Is that why I have been seeing a Cloudflare redirect message at most sites I've visted this week?

The captcha one? As a Tor user for casual browsing it is really a slap in the face to see that on websites I considered supportive of privacy.

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by snissn » Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

finnn wrote: post #24

snissn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link?

Link to what? https://www.cloudflare.com ?

To aw3c2's claim that cloudflare is "a global CDN that "infected" an incredible of websites"

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by termos » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 10:57 AM UTC

bildung wrote: post #6

Looks nice! I see you allow file uploads. How do you handle file storage, isn't that potentially expensive (DOSing your bank account)? And what about legal problems (copyright infringement and illegal stuff)?

I don't have much disk space available so if the limit is exceeded I will delete files that have not been downloaded recently. Active files stay longer. Legal problems I have not put much thought into, but anything reported or found by me will be deleted immediately. Client side encryption and decryption could come in the future.

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by termos » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 11:00 AM UTC

LePoneyRouge wrote: post #18

I did: setInterval(function(){socket.join("rooms:" + 'hn', {}, function(chan) {chan.send("new:message", {content: 'message from a BOT', nick: 'nick', chan: 'hn'})});}, 10); There is obiously some security problems. ;)

My friend did the same, really took its toll on the servers and I was forced to take them offline. Rate limiting is now implemented, thanks for pointing this out!

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by termos » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 11:02 AM UTC

mgbmtl wrote: post #4

Nice UI. Is the code available? How does it compare to https://crypto.cat/ ?

Code will be released at some point when I'm no longer embarrassed over it. I bet it's not something anyone should look on for learning Elixir best practices

Re: Show HN: Anoncat, stay Anonymous while sharing and chatting

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Post by termos » Thu, Feb 12, 2015, 11:04 AM UTC

guardstanker wrote: post #11

I can't figure out how to chat. Enter isn't working to send messages. Also, is there a way to set nicks, like in IRC?

Are you using Swype keyboard or some exotic keyboard? The return key on those keyboard have a strange behaviour that I will debug some day. No way to set nick, they are randomly generated for each browser.