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* All traffic is encrypted via SSL to prevent eavesdropping.
 
* All traffic is encrypted via SSL to prevent eavesdropping.
 
* The code is completely open source and it's encouraged that users create their own instances of it to create a decentralized community.
 
* The code is completely open source and it's encouraged that users create their own instances of it to create a decentralized community.
* Posts are completely anonymous and can never be matched to an IP address.
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* The site has an ongoing effort to protect the anonymity of its users.
 
* It has a REST API which allows anonymous reading, and with an API key, posting to the site.
 
* It has a REST API which allows anonymous reading, and with an API key, posting to the site.
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* Image support is planned, along with the possibility of audio. There is, however, no ETA on when these features will be complete.
 
* Image support is planned, along with the possibility of audio. There is, however, no ETA on when these features will be complete.
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==True Anonymity==
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==Anonymity==
To achieve its stated "true anonymity", the site takes the following precautions:
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In the interest of preserving anonymity, the site takes the following precautions:
 
* All webserver logs disabled completely.
 
* All webserver logs disabled completely.
* User IPs are hashed immediately as SHA512 and the plaintext representation of the IP address is discarded. The hashed IP is stored only for banning purposes. Thus, there is no way to link a post on the site to a real world identity.
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* User IPs are hashed immediately as SHA512 and the plaintext representation of the IP address is discarded. The hashed IP is stored only for banning purposes. This is vulnerable to comparing the hash against a set of all hashed IPv4 addresses, if an alternative to this system is not found, the site will disable banning in the interest of user anonymity, thus no IP logs in any form at all will be kept.
    
==External Links==
 
==External Links==

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