RonMarken

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by RonMarken 2y ago
Hypothetically if the machines were not rendered inoperable - either physically or by a remote 'kill switch' how self-sufficient could an operator be without support of ASML or TSMC personnel?
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by RonMarken 2y ago
This is all very interesting. No disrespect to Mullvad but will there be any effort towards attempting to get such functionality standardized? In the past there was a XOR scrambling patch for OpenVPN[1] to attempt to circumvent certain gove
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by RonMarken 3y ago
Have further information on potential malice by Private Internet Access or employees?
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Considering past events such as this.[1] I think it is more likely that the F.B.I are aware of TAILS and its limitations against certain adversaries and choose not to comment. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-helped-
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by RonMarken 4y ago
While supporting funding more nodes is a noble goal another concern I consider overlooked is the potential 'centralisation' of nodes e.g how a large number of Tor nodes are hosted in Germany and near countries and the implications
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by RonMarken 4y ago
As a related topic the NY Times .onion site likes to refuse loading articles thinking a normal visitor with Tor Browser is a robot. If anyone has any contact with the NYTimes ops' team perhaps this issue could be raised with them.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Might recall reading something to the effect of the C Tor daemon having run into bottlenecks due to lack of multi-threading of certain components and general concern over safety footguns.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Agree. While this is certainly a notable milestone it does seem a little premature to celebrate considering the caveats of the current version.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
> Satoshi must be an expert in hiding. There are allegations that Satoshi may have accidentally slipped up and leaked IP address that was not a Tor exit-node or other anonymous-proxy. Could either be Satoshi fucking up and not using Tor
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Some people claim this is the situation with the new Twitter onion-service. Sad.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Created and accessed over Tor or a clearnet connection?
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by RonMarken 4y ago
How about the fact Twitter recently launched an official onion-service yet it is claimed by users when attempting to create an account with email over it the account is locked for 'abuse' within short order?
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Anyone accept Monero?
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Perhaps Twitter needs to make it easier to create accounts anonymously and stop virtue signaling (i.e suspend accounts created over Tor onion-service) With pseudonymous usage of public services information minimisation to maintain operation
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Conclusion. Some random person created a bunch of Tor exit nodes doing some internal routing fuckery for :80 traffic. Anyone should assume their plain-text traffic is fine-pickings when over Tor (and probably any of the VPN providers anyway
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by RonMarken 4y ago
I was under the impression the KPN attacker merely used a single-hop VPN service from his KPN connection and the investigators managed to correlate traffic-flows. Unfortunate that talk is not publicly available.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Realistically you cannot win against a resourceful adversary every time. But merely painting the situation through the lens of premature surrender is also a disservice. It will be interesting to see what third-party researchers discover abo
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by RonMarken 4y ago
One cannot remain private or anonymous from a state-level adversary indefinitely but throwing your hands up and dismissing it as impossible is also a fallacy. Details are sporadic for easy reasons but quite a few whistle-blowers and other c
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by RonMarken 4y ago
No comment on the prospect of owning a company anonymously or publishing apps through Apple but in certain communities it is accustomed to be anonymous, particularly in those which knowledge of real-life identities could be used to gain ite
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by RonMarken 4y ago
This appears to be good however recent events showing the deconstruction of prior precedents and other policies not directly implemented by laws raise a tangible concern. It would not be surprising if some bored prosecutor with a grudge att
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by RonMarken 4y ago
> it doesn't help that the current owner of freenode is notoriously litigious. Yawn. All I have seen is some angry techbro who can dish out an hour of time for an attorney to write angry letter when he does not have things his way.
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by RonMarken 4y ago
America seems to have a blase culture about actually preventing these mass-shootings after they occur outside of virtue-signaling (see the popular Onion trope "No Way to Prevent This") but at the same time one could have the conce
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by RonMarken 4y ago
Not everyone needs to be a 10x engineer that does everything all the time. It is good to take a step back and realise what you want to do. In a technical sense one skill that can help realise these 'big daunting ideas' is to bre