I'm not sure how this is a whack-a-mole game.
If you run a single-server hidden service, the NSA can track it (unless you think otherwise - tried to initiate discussion here[1]).
Once they track it, they will get your hosting provider to cooperate and before you know it, your server has been imaged and that irrevocable .onion private key is in the authorities' hands. The most you'll see from your end was some downtime, which a cooperative host (an assumption here, granted) would cover up for the FBI (status update: rack/sector/DC failure at XXX).
They can now impersonate your server, MitM you, the works. After that, in order to move, you have to literally move to another onion address.
What you're saying makes sense if there is anyone who habitually rotates servers as a matter of OPSEC, but that sounds like an invitation for disaster.
AFAICT the name of the game isn't whack-a-mole, because when the NSA sees the mole, it will whack it.
It's "bury the mole in the moleyard" - multiple mirrors so as to make locating the actual service very unlikely.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568667
If you run a single-server hidden service, the NSA can track it (unless you think otherwise - tried to initiate discussion here[1]).
Once they track it, they will get your hosting provider to cooperate and before you know it, your server has been imaged and that irrevocable .onion private key is in the authorities' hands. The most you'll see from your end was some downtime, which a cooperative host (an assumption here, granted) would cover up for the FBI (status update: rack/sector/DC failure at XXX).
They can now impersonate your server, MitM you, the works. After that, in order to move, you have to literally move to another onion address.
What you're saying makes sense if there is anyone who habitually rotates servers as a matter of OPSEC, but that sounds like an invitation for disaster.
AFAICT the name of the game isn't whack-a-mole, because when the NSA sees the mole, it will whack it.
It's "bury the mole in the moleyard" - multiple mirrors so as to make locating the actual service very unlikely.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568667