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To be honest your best bet is probably obtaining a stolen credit card, sticking it up on one of the big cloud providers and then rest safe in the knowledge the second you release the data it's going to be copied a thousand times over by journalists and political operatives. If you really want to continue your campaign, just continually pop up with new stolen credit cards on various cloud providers, the barrier to entry is so low now.


So I'm trying to pretend you realistically have something huge to expose... and want to make it through the week or possibly the rest of the month without going to jail. Booting up a site on Amazon with a stolen CC is probably not that smart.

>> it's going to be copied a thousand times over by journalists

not really if it's a fucking terabyte of data


Probably hours of up time is good enough, and let's say you're Assange or Snowden or Manning, I think the assumption should be that you're either fleeing the country or facing life in jail. They're gonna get you no matter where you distribute the information.


The big cloud providers have encountered this many times, and are experts at combatting drive-by fraud like this.

The largest and default "big cloud provider" in the US is also a retailer and might be the best organization in the world at detecting and preventing credit card fraud.




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