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Summary: The hacktivist group Anonymous has gotten so pissed off at Pastebin and its censorship plans that it has created its own alternative: AnonPaste. Its currently in alpha though, so dont expect much.

Earlier this month, the hacktivist group Anonymous complained that Pastebins plans to monitor the sites content for sensitive information was censorship. Now Anonymous has put its money where its mouth is, teaming up with the Peoples Liberation Front (PLF), and launching AnonPaste.

AnonPaste features the basic functionality youd expect, including the ability to expire a paste after 10 minutes, one hour, one day, one month, one year, or never. Theres one big problem though: the pastes are hosted on PLFs website.

While you can paste your content on anonpaste.tk, you get redirected to peoplesliberationfront.net when you hit the Send button. For example, heres a paste I made: peoplesliberationfront.net/anonpaste/index.php?308913c82f300cd3#aweRz3sHi72hC0s/VsyXCncwQ3Epg7BTaq9KvMr+FWs=.

Thats a ridiculously long URL. Theres a Shorten URL button, but it just redirects you to snipurl.com. This is a pain. The good news is that this is AnonPaste Alpha 0.11 so maybe the two groups will eventually host everything on the anonpaste.tk domain.

Pastebin, which has over 200,000 members and 17 million unique visitors per month, has been the de facto choice for hackers who want to publicly post data they have stolen from their targets. Hacker pastes ranges from something simple, like a list of sites that have been hacked, to very detailed information, including administrator credentials for website servers, credit card numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses with corresponding passwords, and even home addresses.

Heres how the two groups announced the new site, on AnonPaste of course:

As many might be aware, PasteBin has been in the news lately for making some rather shady claims as to what they are willing to censor, and when they are willing to give up IP addresses to the authorities. And as a recent leak of private E-Mails show clearly, PasteBin is not only willing to give up IP addresses to governments - but apparently has already given many IPs to at least one private security firm. And these leaked E-Mails also revealed a distinct animosity towards Anonymous. And so the PLF and Anonymous have teamed up to offer a paste service truly free of all such nonsense.

AnonPaste is built using open source software called ZeroBin, a minimalist online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data, according to the two groups. To improve on it, they are asking for donations via BitCoins or WePay.

The duo wants to emphasize the following five AnonPaste features:

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Anonymous claims Pastebin censorship, creates alternative