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by kfreds 8mo ago
Exciting! It sounds like you want to achieve system transparency, but I don't see any clear mention of reproducible builds or transparency logs anywhere. I have followed systemd's efforts into Secure Boot and TPM use with great in
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by kfreds 9mo ago
Well said. Open source helps with agency, freedom of association, and voluntary action. Maintainers have the freedom to choose whether to accept an idea or not. Users have the freedom to fork or not.
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by kfreds 9mo ago
Obviously it’s far more nuanced than that. I’d say there are several categories where a reasonable person could have reservations (or not) about LLMs: Copyright issues (related to training data and inference), openness (OSS, model parameter
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by kfreds 9mo ago
> An account-number model like Mullvad's would seem preferable Thank you! :) > .. assuming vendor’s TEE actually works For sure TEEs have a rich history of vulnerabilities and nuanced limitations in their threat models. As a conc
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by kfreds 9mo ago
I see. Thank you for explaining.
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by kfreds 9mo ago
He IS a hacker from the 90s. It’s an assumed name. Plenty of hackers from the 90s have pseudonyms. > so-called creator of some encryption protocol All evidence points to him being one of the protocol’s designers, along with Trevor Perrin
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by kfreds 9mo ago
Can someone explain to me how this thread dropped from 20th place, on the first page, to 150th, in the span of an hour? Thank you. (Ping dang.)
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by kfreds 9mo ago
It’s exciting to hear that Moxie and colleagues are working on something like this. They definitely have the skills to pull it off. Few in this world have done as much for privacy as the people who built Signal. Yes, it’s not perfect, but b
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by kfreds 9mo ago
I don't consider myself a programmer and I can use Ed25519 safely. I do however understand computing fairly well.
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by kfreds 10mo ago
> Thank you for the reply, I really appreciate it. Likewise. > You created a company which .. ultimately undermines the government power and makes it weaker. Undermining the power of governments and other powerful entities has benefit
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by kfreds 10mo ago
Thank you for your constructive criticism. > I think the right course of action should be a political activism, not a technological one. Especially when the company doing it makes a fortune. We tried that. My cofounder and I, as well as
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by kfreds 1y ago
> it would be nice if you addressed the specific objection I'm pretty sure I did. I'll happily answer yours as well. > Do you think they appeal more to consumers who are seeking "it keeps me vaguely secure", or it
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by kfreds 1y ago
Actually, no. Our goal is to make mass surveillance and censorship ineffective, not maximizing profit to our shareholders. If there was a big red button we could push that accomplishes our goal and makes Mullvad obsolete in the process, we&
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by kfreds 1y ago
Sure! Regarding tracking concerns, masking your IP address is a necessary but insufficient first step to improving your privacy online. ISPs typically don't allow their users to do that per-device in a UX-friendly way. Protecting again
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by kfreds 1y ago
Good point. That is indeed a distinct fifth reason. Here's a sixth one: for some users it can improve latency, bandwidth and/or even cost. latency/bandwidth: because of weird peering agreements between ISPs / ASes. cost:
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by kfreds 1y ago
Thank you!
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by kfreds 1y ago
We have a few partners who use our infrastructure (e.g. Mozilla), but we're not trying to dominate as a white-label solution. In fact, we've said no to a few well-known brands who wanted to white-label our infrastructure. As for o
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by kfreds 1y ago
The way I see it there's four use cases: - protecting your privacy from your local ISP, WiFi, school, government etc - protecting your privacy from some forms of online tracking - circumventing censorship - circumventing geographical r
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by kfreds 1y ago
Yes. I've used Qubes on and off since 2012. What I'd love to do is run Linux on top of seL4, and virtio-backends in VMs. There is a patch for ivshmemv2, but it seems abandoned.
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by kfreds 1y ago
It seems we read the same stuff. :) I assume you're also aware of the Oxide and Friends podcast, and the Microarch Club podcast?
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by kfreds 1y ago
You might also find these interesting: - Akaros, an OS for manycore systems: http://akaros.org/news.html - VMThreads, an interesting paper on scheduling challenges, related to Akaros: https://iwp9.org/11iwp9
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by kfreds 1y ago
The virtualization of I/O is fascinating, and VirtIO's progress from the Linux kernel to hardware implementations. My only wish is that Linux would support inter-VM shared memory as a VirtIO transport in addition to pci and mmio.
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by kfreds 1y ago
Thank you! I realize now that I was thinking about a different aspect of systems research, but failed to say so. Barrelfish (multikernel) and your username made me think of manycore systems and the scheduling challenges we will surely face
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by kfreds 1y ago
Interesting. Do you know of any good SoK papers or articles that summarize the current state of the art, or explains this genealogy?
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by kfreds 1y ago
Interesting. Try reaching out to Mullvad's support as well if you haven't done so already. If I'm not mistaken they conduct censorship circumvention experiments from time to time together with customers. I'm sure they&#x
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by kfreds 1y ago
Hi! I used to think that the product should speak for itself, only grow by word of mouth, and that it was wrong to do any advertising. Part of me still thinks that. On the other hand we ran a very political advertising campaign one-two year
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by kfreds 1y ago
Mullvad's mission is to make mass surveillance AND online censorship ineffective. So yes, we do intend to offer excellent censorship circumvention out of the box. Having said that we have clearly prioritized privacy for a long time. Fo
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by kfreds 1y ago
> there's definitely been a lottery win or a series A We have neither won the lottery nor taken on outside investment. We've been growing for years, and we've reached a point where we can afford campaigns like this. It is
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by kfreds 1y ago
> Did they get a cash infusion? Why all of the sudden are they expanding? No cash infusion. We've been growing for years, just like many other VPN services. We're still quite a bit smaller than e.g. Nord and Express though. As
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by kfreds 1y ago
I assume you're referring to this[1]. I don't think it's necessary to bring all of that into the Go runtime itself, or ask the Go team to maintain it. It would be part of your application, and similar to a board support packa

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