http://phrack.org/issues/71/6.html#article here's the original paper for the intrested.
He didn't, malware guys use UPX and it's true that antiviruses scream bloody murder when they see it. It's also true you can't see what's inside unless you have special tools to do so. UPX also has one huge downside, it's its RAM usage, due to it's inner workings it's unable to use optimisations that normal binaries can like page sharing.
Tech? I would really love to join reverse engineering community or two.
They will not because it wouldn't be profitable to them.
If you log in w/ tor to account you've logged it w/o it you deanonymise yourself and it makes no sense.
Tidal and tidal-dl. You can ask me for stuff.
Why didn't anyone mention burning it to ashes?
Depends on country you happen to be in. If it's Poland or eastern Europe noone will give a damn. If it's Germany then you might be screwed. If you're on a good VPN you should be ok even in Germany.
It's not, i've got two non-tech friends on my private instance, biggest issue was me nuking wrong folder on server. You just need a good client, i go with Dino for desktop and monocles chat for android. My non-techies are mobile-only and i and my techy friend are on Dino on desktop, only feature it lacked is group calls which i've monkeypached with a feature for my bot that generates Jitsi invites.
I've found a old CD and put it up on Internet Archive, it's a place for old stuff to go.
Tried and can confirm almost every webpage even static ones which could be simple as rock needs truckload of bloat js code to be loaded from ext servers.
Just putting all your stuff in one big .7z so you can unpack it to directory then scan them all w/ AV.