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From the site which seems to be down: ---------------------------------- The web you know is dying I'm drinking an espresso shot. It's half-cold. There's sti
by mindstab 13y ago
From the site which seems to be down:
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The web you know is dying
I'm drinking an espresso shot. It's half-cold. There's still gunk in my eyes from sleeping.
I've been thinking a lot about how I use the Internet. A year ago, I nearly vanished from the public web because I had an intuitive feeling the centralized web was a backdoor to the government. Now, as the dust settles from our collective experiences over the past week, I know this to be true.
So I'm revisiting some of my older habits. I'm using Tor to visit websites. I've installed Torbirdy on Thunderbird. I'm back on Hyperboria) using cjdns. If you want to send me Bitcoins, I'll take them.
I continue to try to find ways to communicate over the web. Forward security is a must. Distributed peer to peer social is a must. These are two seperate problems.
The kids on Hyperboria have the right idea: if you don't want to be spied on, evolve beyond reach. I'm doing just that.
Distributed everything is where we're going.
The way I see it, if you're still on centralized social networks, you're part of the problem. You can't stick your fingers in your ears anymore and scream 'lalallalal'. All of your information is being recorded, forever, in the nice little boxes you type into all day long.
I'm running more and more under the pseudonym of Ven Portman. I'm powering up a hyperboria-only website at venportman.com. Evbogue.com will continue to be my stable public web presence. The madness will happen on Hyperboria.
The centralized Internet you know is dying. We're scattering to darknets everywhere to look for what we'll build next.
–Ev Bogue
July 4 2013
undisclosed location
- jmillikin 13y agoIf one's goal is to be anonymous, why publicly associate an old site with a new identity? Doesn't that defeat the point? Now, nothing done under the name "Ven Portman" will be anonymous because that name is forever linked to the author's previous identity of Ev Bogue.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHe said it was to be a pseudonym. Pseudonyms are used for pseudonymity- "casual" anonymity that is not intended to hold up under examination and scrutiny.
- jmillikin 13y agoThe typical purpose of a pseudonym is to prevent some set of people from connecting certain activities to your legal identity, while still permitting reputation to be accumulated. It's quite possible for pseudonyms to remain completely disconnected from one's legal identity, even under scrutiny. For example, merchants on Silk Road use pseudonyms to manage buyer/seller trust, but still take care to avoid being arrested for drug possession. The important thing is which entity is considered to be the "adversary". If a teenager just wants to hide angsty reddit posts from her classmates, that doesn't require retreating to a crypto-nerd darknet. The author feels that he must abandon the open internet because it's being monitored by the NSA. This implies that he considers the NSA to be his adversary, in which case his choice to link identities has in one step undone all of his sacrifices. There's no point in using a pseudonym on a darknet if your opponent knows about the darknet and knows your pseudonym.