A team of cryptografen and developers want a website set up where everybody datasets to the highest bidder to sell. “You’ll hate”, is the slogan of the service, that using Tor is to be reached. Payments are made via Bitcoin.
Who file want to drain to the highest bidder, it will soon be able to upload to Slur, a marketplace for data. In addition, no restrictions on the type of data that is offered or the motives of the seller, says spokesperson Thom Lauret of u99, the group cryptografen and developers behind the website. The motif of the site is to be ‘the established order to undermine and destabilise’.
The website expects that stolen databases, source code of closed software, zero day exploits, and other confidential documents on the website, will come, as well as ‘unflattering’ photos and videos of celebrities. Only the highest bidder receives the data, and can then choose to make the data freely to show or be hidden. Large businesses would be so money can be put to leak out of the publicity. To this limit, users can through the crowd bidding along money deposit for datasets.
Slur.io would include ensuring that whistleblowers, who remain completely anonymous, can be compensated. “Slur introduces a balanced system in which the material interests of whistleblowers are protected in exchange for the risks they take,” said spokesman Lauret. Datasets may only once be offered.
To prevent false claims are made about the content of the data, the buyer data view before the seller gets money. He Is not happy with the content, an arbitration procedure can be started in which other members of the community should vote on the content. They agree with the buyer, then the buyer will receive his money back.
Payments are made via Bitcoin and the site will only be accessible via Tor, to get out of the hands of the government to continue. The developers expect for yourself are not the target of the government, because source code under the free word would fall, and they claim not to take advantage of the data that the site be sold. The question is whether the U.s. government agrees; the site is located in San Francisco.
The developers of the site hope that they of the public money to the development of the platform to compensate. In april would be a beta version of the site to open, after which a full release in July would have to follow.