[matt_f]

Are there any legal security issues to be concerned about as a developer of this kind of anonymous service?

I wonder every time I see a project like this, namely anonymous or transient hosting of any kind of user data, whether the developers get any kind of flak from agencies claiming it could be used to nefarious ends.

Serving plain text is obviously less of a concern than hosting images, video, etc.

But I imagine the more anonymous a service is, the more attractive it is for use by unsavory actors.

Anyone have any thoughts?

[scoopertrooper]

This one appears to have been created by a real people person.

https://www.anish.io/

[dspillett]

With anonymous I think matt_f was referring to the users, not the creator or manager of the service, the issue being that an anonymous user could use the service to transmit illegal/immoral/... information (stolen CC info or identity data, CP, trade secrets, government secrets, and so forth) using the service.

The assumption that makes this a problem is that the service makes such users (at least slightly) less easy to trace, and/or the person(s) running the service might in some jurisdictions be seen as responsible for enabling the illegal activity.

[unixhero]

I for one love transient web services.