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Recommended By

Lockdown Systems' projects are recommended and trusted by the following organizations:

• Privacy Guides recommends OnionShare in their File Sharing and Sync section.
• Qubes OS, Tails, Whonix, and Parrot OS include OnionShare in their operating systems.
• The Fund Internet Freedom campaign led by The Tor Project and Funding the Commons included OnionShare as one of ten participating projects.

Lockdown Systems in the Press

Below is a list of media that have mentioned Lockdown Systems or one of our projects. If you would like us to add your article to the list, please email us at the address listed above.

2025

New York Times, Wirecutter (June 25th, 2025)

Our Privacy Expert Tried, and Failed, to Disappear From the Internet

It’s not as simple as deleting a few accounts.

Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World

Linux Magazine (June 2025)

Sturdy Locker » Linux Magazine

Leverage the Tor network to keep file access anonymous.

Linux MagazineChris Binnie

Privacy Guides (March 28th, 2025)

Interview with Micah Lee: Cyd, Lockdown Systems, OnionShare, and more

This article is an interview with Micah Lee, the creator of Cyd and OnionShare, founder of Lockdown Systems, and author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data.

Privacy GuidesEm

2024

IloGeek (December 28th, 2024)

Cyd : L’outil ultime pour reprendre le contrôle de vos données sur X (Twitter) | IloGeek

IloGeekExl

Lifehacker (December 13th, 2024)

This Free App Archives and Deletes Your Tweets

Cyd is a free bulk tweet deleter that runs entirely on your computer.

LifehackerJustin Pot

Freedom of the Press Foundation (December 11th, 2024)

Clawing back your data on X

Purging your social media posts is getting much simpler

Freedom of the PressDr. Martin Shelton

WIRED (December 3rd, 2024)

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn’t look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.

WIREDAndy Greenberg

ZDNet (December 3rd, 2024)

I deleted thousands of tweets from X with this new tool - for free

Now you can easily migrate from X with this powerful tool that deletes tweets, likes, and DMs, while backing up your data for a fresh start elsewhere.

ZDNETJason Perlow

Freedom of the Press Foundation (August 20th, 2024)

OnionShare for beginners

Protecting sources from harm should be the top priority of any newsroom. Whistleblowers risk identification when sending confidential files over mainstream email and messaging services. Although there are many secure file-sharing applications, they vary in cost and technical expertise.OnionShare, a free file-sharing application, makes it easy to send and …

Freedom of the PressKevin Pham

The Windows Club (June 16th, 2024)

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size (by Vamien McKalin)

Reporters Without Borders (April 11th, 2024)

Exchanging sensitive files securely and anonymously with OnionShare | RSF Resources for Journalists

Journalists usually resort to cloud services to share sensitive files, which presents security risks especially in authoritarian countries. In this article, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) introduces OnionShare, an open-source tool journalists can use to share and receive files both anonymously and securely. Sharing documents and files with colleagues or sources…

RSF Resources for Journalists

2022

The Tor Project (November 16th, 2022)

Techlore (January 22nd, 2022)

2021

LifeHacker (February 23rd, 2021)

Share and Receive Files Anonymously with ‘OnionShare’

Whether you’re a spy or a geek, there are plenty of ways to share and receive files with others without revealing anyone’s identity. Whatever your r

LifehackerDavid Murphy

2020

It's FOSS (August 24th, 2020)

OnionShare: An Open-Source Tool to Share Files Securely Over Tor Network

Brief: OnionShare is a free and open-source tool that utilizes the Tor network to share files securely and anonymously. You might have already come across a lot of online services to share files securely but it may not be completely anonymous. Also, you do have to rely on a

It's FOSSAnkush Das

2019

Digital Information World (October 18th, 2019)

New Onion Program Lets You Create Dark Web Sites

According to Micah Lee (the developer of OnionShare), a new version of OnionShare is going to offer something quite different.

Digital Information WorldZia Muhammad

Cyber Security News (October 17th, 2019)

A New version of OnionShare Let Anyone host Anonymous Dark Web Sites

The new version of OnionShare allows anyone to host and send files anonymously to other users. The previous versions of only include “Share Files” and “Receive Files”, bust starting from OnionShare 2.2, “Publish Website” was introduced.

CybersecurityNewsGuru Baran

Bleeping Computer (October 16th, 2019)

OnionShare Lets Anyone Host Anonymous Sites on the Dark Web

A new version of the OnionShare program now allows you to easily create basic anonymous dark web sites on Tor so that they cannot be censored. This is particularly useful for those who wish to publish information anonymously, but do not want to deal with the mechanics of setting up their own dark web server.

BleepingComputerLawrence Abrams

Information Security Newspaper (February 23rd, 2019)

OnionShare: Share files over the Tor network – Information Security Newspaper | Hacking News

Information Security NewspaperOctavio Mares

ExpressVPN (February 22nd, 2019)

Share Files Securely and Anonymously with OnionShare 2

OnionShare creates a web server on your computer and makes it accessible via an .onion site so you can share files anonymously.

ExpressVPNLexie

2018

OS Technix (June 11th, 2018)

OnionShare – Share Files Of Any Size Securely And Anonymously (by Sk)

2016

TecMint (June 29th, 2016)

How to Securely and Anonymously Share Files of Any Size Over the Tor Network with OnionShare

In this article we will explain how to use Onionshare, an open source desktop utility that allows you to share files hosted on your own computer of any size securely and anonymously using the Tor browser.

How to Securely and Anonymously Share Files of Any Size Over the Tor Network with OnionShareGabriel Cánepa

2014

Gizmodo (June 27th, 2014)

Meet Onionshare, the File Sharing App the Next Snowden Will Use

A small software app called Onionshare offers the most secure file sharing available. So why hasn’t anyone heard of it? Well, mostly because it was

GizmodoKate Knibbs

WIRED (May 21st, 2014)

Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously

Onionshare is simple, free software designed to let anyone send files securely and anonymously.

WIREDAndy Greenberg

Lockdown Systems at Events

HOPE 2025

Watch our Cyd Talk at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference

This weekend, most of the Lockdown Systems collective was at Hackers on Planet Earth, a hacker conference in New York City. Watch our talk here: ‼️Want to keep receiving newsletter updates? You might be reading this because you’re a Cyd user and have subscribed to the Cyd newsletter. We’

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Video Tutorials

OnionShare Tutorial from The Tor Project: