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Canonical silentmode.st URLs no longer carry a trailing slash (/tools, not /tools/). nginx (tracked now in VPS/SilentMode/silentmode-st.nginx) 301s the old form and serves <dir>/index.html; sub-sites deployed from other repos with relative asset paths (deviant, sirius-x, theseus-x, hephaestus.x, fly.x, code) keep their directory URLs. Every page's internal links are now site-root-relative, which resolves correctly both at /x on nginx and under the BNS gateway's injected <base href="/bns/silentmode.bch/"> — the old ../x/ links were already broken on the gateway route. /theseus becomes the Silent Mode-headered Theseus page (what it is, what's inside, Windows + Android downloads with manifest hashes, verify), linking out to the sovereign theseus.x whose VPS mirror moves to /theseus-x/, the same split as /sirius vs /sirius-x/. /tools is repurposed as the overview: every site, the on-chain twins, the other clients (relay, Firefox, the standalone Ariadne Resolver) and the machine endpoints. The old tools page carried stale APK and resolver hashes; the new pages use the manifest's, verified against the files on dl.silentmode.st. scripts/serve-site.mjs mirrors the nginx rules for local preview.
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<title>The conventional stack — Silent Mode</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Registrars, hosts, CDNs and certificate authorities. What each layer costs, what it does well, and where each one keeps a veto.">
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<main>
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<div class="capsule" aria-hidden="true"></div>
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<h1>Rent it, like everyone.</h1>
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<p class="lede">This is the stack almost every site on the internet is built on. It is
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mature, it is inexpensive, and it is very good at its job. It is also five separate
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companies, each of whom can independently decide your project is over — and every one
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of them keeps a record that reaches back to you.</p>
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<div class="fair" style="border-left-color:#7fa3f2;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:2.4rem">
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<b>The identity bind, and its limits.</b> The default path binds a domain to a verified
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legal identity: ICANN's registrar accreditation agreement obliges registrars to hold
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accurate registrant data, WHOIS/RDAP publishes some of it, and the card or bank transfer
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ties the record together. Privacy-forward registrars like Njalla or MyNymBox exist —
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they take Monero, do not require a legal name, and behave well. If you also connect over
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Tor or a paid VPN and do not volunteer personal details, the real-world privacy you get
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from them is genuinely good.<br><br>
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But <b>the mechanism is different</b>. Those providers hold an identity, or a payment,
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or a network address <em>on your behalf</em>, and can be compelled to produce what they
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have. Anyone who paid with a bank card, or opened an account with an email that reaches
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back to them, has not really used the privacy path at all — they have used a privacy
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<em>brand</em> attached to the ordinary rails. The conventional stack is
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<b>anonymous only by exception</b>, and the exception is compellable. Sirius is
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anonymous <b>by default</b> — the identity, the payment record, and the account were
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never collected, because the stack cannot collect them.
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</div>
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<h2>Who holds what</h2>
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<div class="layers">
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<div class="layer">
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<div class="who">Registrar <small>GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare</small></div>
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<div class="what">Leases you the name, yearly. <em>Can suspend or transfer it</em> on a
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court order, a UDRP ruling, or its own policy — and must, by contract with the
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registry.</div>
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</div>
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<div class="layer">
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<div class="who">Host <small>AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean</small></div>
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<div class="what">Runs the machine. <em>Can terminate under acceptable-use terms</em>,
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usually with notice, sometimes without.</div>
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</div>
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<div class="layer">
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<div class="who">CDN / proxy <small>Cloudflare, Fastly</small></div>
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<div class="what">Sits in front of your traffic. <em>Can stop carrying it</em> — and has,
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publicly, for customers who broke no law.</div>
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</div>
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<div class="layer">
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<div class="who">Certificate authority <small>Let's Encrypt, DigiCert</small></div>
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<div class="what">Vouches that you are you. <em>Can revoke</em>, at which point browsers
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refuse the connection regardless of who is right.</div>
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</div>
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<div class="layer">
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<div class="who">App store / payments <small>Apple, Google, Stripe</small></div>
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<div class="what">If money or an app is involved, two more parties with terms and a
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<em>right to decline</em>.</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<h2>What it costs</h2>
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<table>
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<tr><th>Item</th><th>Typical</th><th>Note</th></tr>
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<tr><td><b>.com</b>, first year</td><td>$1–12</td><td>usually a promotional rate</td></tr>
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<tr><td><b>.com</b>, renewal</td><td>$12–20/yr</td><td>the real price; wholesale is ~$9.59</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Small VPS</td><td>$4–8/mo</td><td>plus your time</td></tr>
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<tr><td>TLS certificate</td><td>$0</td><td>Let's Encrypt, genuinely free</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Renewal</td><td>every year</td><td>keeps the namespace alive; abandon a name and it returns to the pool. Fair enough.</td></tr>
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</table>
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<div class="fair">
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<b>To be fair to it.</b> This stack is fast, well documented, supported at 3am, and
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integrates with everything. The vetoes above also remove phishing sites, malware hosts
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and worse — they exist for reasons, and most of the time they are used reasonably. If
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you are shipping a normal business, this is the sensible default and it is not close.
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The alternative gives up the support desk along with the gatekeeper.
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</div>
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<div class="door">
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<p><b>Sirius</b> removes two of these surfaces — the one that decides whether the name
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is still yours, and the one that could ever be asked what you paid or who you are.
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Not held on your behalf; not held at all. The rest of your choices stay open. Same
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day, few cents, no account, no card.</p>
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<a class="btn" href="/sirius/register.html">See what a name costs there →</a>
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</div>
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<p class="foot">
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<a href="/choose">← Back to the choice</a> · <a href="/">silentmode.st</a><br>
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Company names are examples of each layer, not endorsements or accusations.
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</p>
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</main>
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</body>
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