Topic
Archives
Articles on the operational discipline of running an archival project — preservation against legal demand, the long-term cost of metadata, and the institutional practices that survive a regime change.
12 min read
Leak-aggregator stacks: SecureDrop, GlobaLeaks, OnionShare and the published archive
A reading of the four-layer architecture of a working leak-aggregator — submission system, processing workstation, archive store, published surface — with notes on which tools fit which layer and why the offshore VPS belongs to the archive end of the stack, not the submission end.
11 min read
Migrating an investigative archive to offshore hosting
A fourteen-day sequence for moving an investigative archive — a journalist's corpus, a leak-aggregator's repository, an NGO's case-files — from a commercial host to offshore civil-liberties hosting, with notes on the OPSEC, legal, and chain-of-custody dimensions vendor runbooks omit.
11 min read
Self-hosting Nextcloud on a civil-liberties VPS
An operational guide to standing up Nextcloud on a small offshore VPS — choosing the tier, the OS, the deployment shape, the hardening posture, the backup discipline — written for journalists, archivists and NGO IT leads who have decided Google Drive is not the right place for the work.
13 min read
Threat models for activist archives
An editorial framing of the threat model an archival project — a leak repository, a documentation collection, an institutional memory — should reason about before committing to a hosting decision, drawing on the documented record of archival projects that survived adversarial pressure and those that did not.