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Yeah, no. You even so much as search for TOR on a search engine, you're on a list. You go to their site, you're on another list. You click the "download" par
by GWBullshit 4y ago
Yeah, no.
You even so much as search for TOR on a search engine, you're on a list.
You go to their site, you're on another list.
You click the "download" part of the page, you're on another list.
You click "download", you're on another list.
You open up the package in your downloads folder, you're on another list.
You install the package contents, you're on another list.
You run it, you're on another list.
People who never gave much thought to who developed TOR and believe it offers "privacy" have got to be among some of the most naive tech users to exist.
- rglullis 4y agoThen yet another reason to encourage everyone to do it. A list where half of the world can be found is as good as no list at all.
- GWBullshit 4y agoI sorta get your point; there was some tech freedom advocate or something during the early 2000s that offered a free script on his website which would automatically auto-meta-tag/SEO optimize your site with a small essay's worth of every conceivable flag word/term/name you could imagine; his proposal was similar: if everything gets flagged as a priority to have a human analyst scrutinize it, then by definition nothing could be a priority any more. I can't help but wonder if "they" didn't start a separate list altogether with his name at the top.
- 29083011397778 4y agoI agree, but this is both a different threat model, as well as running into "Too much data leaving you with a haystack worth of needles" kind of thing. I mean just in general, Canada is on a list [0]. Not just some citizens or government officials, but the nation itself. [0] https://www.wksu.org/government-politics/2022-06-02/ohio-house-republicans-vote-to-put-canada-on-a-federal-watch-list https://www.wksu.org/government-politics/2022-06-02/ohio-hou...
- GWBullshit 4y agoThis made me laugh; thank you. It's totally Trudeau, Canada needs to be closely scrutinized – some very dangerous things have been happening there over the last half-decade or so, and not just in a religious sense.