haakon

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by haakon 13y ago
If they don't even know how to use proxies, I somehow doubt they'd even consider fiddling about in their BitTorrent client's proxy settings. How would they even know what to put in there?
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by haakon 13y ago
There are people who do this for others for a living.
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by haakon 13y ago
And what about all the dots along Antarctica?
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by haakon 13y ago
Notice that the presentation is from 2008 - a lot changes in five years.
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by haakon 13y ago
For what it's worth, it's actually as easy on Linux and Mac as well. There is a prevailing myth that Tor has this enormous learning curve and is only for neckbearded hacker masterminds, and it could not be any more wrong. This is
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by haakon 13y ago
My understanding is that even if it had passed with flying colours, Obama would have vetoed it. So all of this process is just for show.
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by haakon 13y ago
If things like Tor were the only way to get porn online, I truly believe that a large portion of the population would bother. (And then the Tor network would collapse under the load)
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by haakon 13y ago
It's too bad FeedTree ( http://www.feedtree.net/ ) never caught on. Decentralised, peer-to-peer push distribution of RSS-style updates. Instead we ended up either hammering servers checking for updates, or using centrali
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by haakon 13y ago
> I'm not aiming to say "liar, liar, pants on fire" since they were probably required to say that Can a court really order a person to lie, though?
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by haakon 13y ago
That works as well. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of these huge one-liners (including the one I posted). I split mine up a bit and posted it here: https://coderwall.com/p/ha-c2w
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by haakon 13y ago
We were all waiting for you to step up.
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by haakon 13y ago
The conventional wisdom is that adults who solicit minors online typically use deceit (they have to, since minors have no interest in sex), and if you want to deceive someone into having sex in Spain, your victim has to be at least 16 years
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by haakon 13y ago
Since we're already on the JVM, here's my solution for Scala: def top10(s: String) = s.split(' ').groupBy(identity).mapValues(_.size).toList.sortBy(-_._2).take(10).map(_._1)
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by haakon 13y ago
Well it's supposed to be using XMPP and PGP, so that's fine. My complaint is that it needs to be open source. Closed-source crypto is no good.
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by haakon 13y ago
I believe the term is mission creep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_creep
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by haakon 13y ago
Well he turned 30, so Obama didn't lie.
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by haakon 13y ago
"Every society is only three meals away from revolution."
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by haakon 13y ago
Nothing is "usual" about the Snowden situation, anyway.
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by haakon 13y ago
> SR claims to have suffered from ‘DDoS’ attacks, which is very unlikely due to the way Tor hidden services are designed. This is wrong; Tor hidden services are quite easy to DDoS for someone familiar with Tor. In fact, the attack was de
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by haakon 13y ago
> it would be trivial to trace anybody putting money into the mixing service Not really; you can't tell which bitcoin addresses belong to a mixing service and which ones don't; it's all just transactions from one address t
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by haakon 13y ago
Snowden is going to land in Oslo airport, Norway and meet with the leader of our Pirate Party, before going on to his final destination which is supposed to be Iceland. Source, in Norwegian: https://www.aftenposten.no/nyhete
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by haakon 13y ago
I'm using 33mail.com for this. It's great except its spam filtering is not perfect.
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by haakon 13y ago
It doesn't do local encryption before upload. There is an encryption plugin now, but it works server-side so you still have to trust the person running the server (which could be yourself, of course).
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by haakon 13y ago
Syncany ( http://www.syncany.org/ ) was supposed to be this locally-encrypted Dropbox-alternative. Unfortunately, it seems to be going nowhere slowly.
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Tor anonymity: How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy(archives.seul.org)
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by haakon 13y ago
Hidden service routing works quite differently that regular exiting traffic. Twice the number of relays are involved, and the traffic is end-to-end encrypted instead of being visible to any relay (such as an exit node). Correlation attacks
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by haakon 13y ago
The Tor client is also careful about picking nodes from a wide geopolitical range to minimise the chance of collaborating nodes in the circuit. If all three nodes are in the U.S., it might be easy for the government there to track the origi
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by haakon 13y ago
You did say you thought Tor was suspected of being compromised.
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by haakon 13y ago
This is key - Tor's purpose is to help you be anonymous . It does not give you confidentiality; for this you need additional tools (such as SSL).
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by haakon 13y ago
In practice, yes. In theory, Tor does not protect against a global passive adversary, so if you believe that there exists an entity capable of observing all traffic on the net globally, and you have reason to believe you are a high-enough-v

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