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by ijktdot 11y ago
True, but at least Taler allows for the consumer to chose merchants who specify they don't sell data. Right now I can't buy anything online and not be tracked by the payment provider unless I use bitcoin. The prepaid credit cards
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by ijktdot 11y ago
There's a global racket in market data mining too, to track demographics and see what they are buying. This system defeats any large payment entity from payment tracking. Taler can also compete with Ukash, since it's free/ope
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by ijktdot 11y ago
This is a digital payment scheme that respects the customers privacy, when buying from merchants. The alternative besides a cryptocurrency, would be a prepaid cc you buy with cash in a store, but then VISA knows everything you buy with it,
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by ijktdot 11y ago
In 5 years we'll all just be using a SoC as the entire computer, so likely there will be no free operating systems considering they'll also make it illegal to tamper with any approved operating system bootloaders/firmware so
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by ijktdot 11y ago
The exodus was from the Kenmou board who refused affiliate marketing on their board they claimed was data mining their IPs. The desktop clients weren't banned, just really old browsers they were using were no longer supported due to ne
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by ijktdot 11y ago
Most of the chans (2ch/8ch/4chan/420chan ect) are just FreeBSD boxes and cgi/perl scripts http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/interviews/moot-4chan.h...
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by ijktdot 11y ago
2ch also offered a paid post deletion service used by political parties when Nishimura was running it, after the 2ch coup he scraped the site and started 2ch.sc This is the guy who runs 2ch/8ch https://twitter.com/xerxe
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by ijktdot 11y ago
The title for this is confusing, they are talking about detecting and attacking regular Tor connections not internal hidden services (like a DarkMarket). That illustration showing not encrypted is the exit node to a regular clearnet site. T
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by ijktdot 11y ago
Torblog has a recent (Sep 2015) write up on how the great firewall detects and kills Tor connections/bridges hence the need for using Obfsproxy4 as a pluggable transport https://blog.torproject.org/blog/learning-mo