neutered_knot

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by neutered_knot 6mo ago
It is also not proof of work because of asymmetries between attacker and defender. An attacker only needs to find one exploitable issue before the defender finds it and patches it, while the defender eventually needs to find all issues - an
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by neutered_knot 10mo ago
I took my model Y in to the Tesla dealer yesterday for some minor repairs. It was taking longer than expected so they gave about 4 or 5 customers loaner cars so we could go do other stuff. Each of us got a Cybertruck. It sort of speaks to t
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
> So unless you’re hunting down someone selling enriched uranium, major abuse content producers/hosters, or something of that scale, putting in all that investment to gain a fuzzy data point that likely isn’t even useful in an enfor
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
But you don't need all the hops. You can run a correlation attack (which has been long known): https://github.com/Attacks-on-Tor/Attacks-on-Tor and if you can get the guard and exit node for a clearnet connection
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
I think that is referring to the node exit policy, which explicitly allows particular ports and IP addresses to be blocked. https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/exit-policies... The documents you referred to
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
The site linked takes a shot at enumerating how unlikely it is. Do you claim it is wrong? If so, what is your calculated chance? To me, TOR is not adequate to protect users targeted by a nation state who are the ones that TOR claims to be c
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
That’s not at all what I proposed. Not even close. Edit: on second look I can see how you could think it was. I’m just proposing that if you run a node you be allowed to not become a rendezvous point for onion sites.
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
It is absolutely a design decision. I don’t understand though how allowing exit nodes to filter (by port and IP) doesn’t permit censorship but allowing internal nodes to not complete connections to onion sites does. I do understand that ea
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
Your question made me curious so I tried to see what information about onion sites is available. It’s hard to measure onions sites by design, but https://99firms.com/research/tor-stats Says there seem to be about 65k o
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
I think the point is that exit node operators can filter traffic they don’t want to support. Guard and middle nodes are not given the same choice; they apparently must support all traffic or get booted. Why can’t other nodes have freedom to
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
It’s a drop in the bucket for state actors who might want to find TORs target user base of dissidents, whistleblowers, and journalists.
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by neutered_knot 1y ago
A story from 2020 about how effective the US funded anti-screwworm program used to be. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea... Archive link: https://archive.ph/3s
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
Pardon inbound
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
As depicted in the move "The Abyss". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
Yes. I’m an academic computer scientist at a top-25 US university. I find that people in the field tend to be excessively critical and very often lack empathy. There is some culture of intellectual one-upmanship where it is more socially d
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
What was fascinating to me was that the first US commercial ship sunk by Germany was sunk on the south side of Australia! I found that by accident clicking around. Truly a world war, I suppose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
It depends on the sensor and probably the state of the subject. This is called "liveness detection" and there is an article I found explianing the basics at: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
I am tertiarily involved in some efforts to prosecute offenders in this area. I am not of aware what volume of traffic online would be these images, but am aware of some material in cases where people are caught and prosecuted. My understan
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
I’m not advocating widespread filtering in this answer. This article is essentially referring only to edge cases which require context to determine if images are CSAM. There are other cases where context is not needed and determining if som
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by neutered_knot 2y ago
I want to believe.
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by neutered_knot 3y ago
This article is from 2020. It may not represent anything current. It should be marked with the year on the headline.
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by neutered_knot 3y ago
I wonder if this is the "one weird hack" to expand the tax base of a country. Just grant citizenship, then start sending tax bills. "Dear Mr. Musk, here is your Argentinian Citizenship! We welcome you with open arms! P.S. ple
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by neutered_knot 4y ago
A launcher is visible on Google Maps, and is still there. I drove by it today. https://goo.gl/maps/LByxzGzqQ28ETtJb9
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by neutered_knot 4y ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/bgYoq
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by neutered_knot 4y ago
I do code review for legal cases on occasion. When I do, and when possible as sometimes the tools I can use are specified before I get the job, I like to use doxygen ( https://www.doxygen.nl/ ) to convert the code to html. It
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by neutered_knot 5y ago
I’m an academic computer scientist. I submit things I review through my institutions cheating detection system. I have found plagiarized submissions this way.
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by neutered_knot 6y ago
I was fortunate enough to have Randy as a teacher at UVa. He changed my life. Here is a note I sent him when I received tenure in computer science: --------- Hi, I don't know if you would remember me, but I took a data structures class
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by neutered_knot 6y ago
There have been hypotheses in the past that this drug would help; at least one study didn't find that it helped. https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01354444
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by neutered_knot 7y ago
It isn't clear to me how this differs from iocage, other than it expects to run on the loopback interface instead of the public one.
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by neutered_knot 8y ago
Would it still work if you use the method in the edit?

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