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by obvio171 12y ago
First place I published it after thinking about it. Didn't know if it would get any attention at all, so just went ahead and did the simplest thing by posting the FB link. I'll fill out the README a bit more now, thanks for the fe
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by obvio171 12y ago
Thanks for the heads up. I've changed the wording in the descriptions.
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by obvio171 12y ago
Yep, that's the idea. Github is just a nicety to help get things moving.
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Guerilla Open Tube: A Distributed, Censorship-Resistant Backup of YouTube(github.com)
18 points by obvio171 12y ago|21 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
Much better discussion going on there :) Thanks for the link!
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by obvio171 12y ago
Technical paper in English: https://sites.google.com/site/dfaranha/pubs/aranha-karam-mir... "This work presents a security analysis of the Brazilian voting machine software based on the the experience of
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by obvio171 12y ago
Brazil uses an obsolete, inauditable, and closed-source voting machine. Tomorrow we vote for president, governor, and Congress members, and the fate of our 200M people democracy depends exclusively on the security of this machine (it prod
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Fraud possible in Brazil's e-voting system(zdnet.com)
42 points by obvio171 12y ago|29 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
That would be "as good as it gets" with current science, I guess, so it's great if we can get to that, but I think it's a little farther down on the technology horizon.
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by obvio171 12y ago
"the problem of chronic hunger is not lack of access to food. It's lack of money to purchase it." The idea is exactly to think of ways for money not to be necessary. It's been done before, albeit not by us. Our atmospher
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How can we end hunger with technology?(gist.github.com)
3 points by obvio171 12y ago|5 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
That would have to be thoroughly thought of to offer a simple solution, maybe even at the cost of defining stricter boundaries of what such services would be allowed to do. But there's no reason why running servers should be so scary t
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by obvio171 12y ago
You know what a killer app for this would be? An "app store" of stupidly-simple-to-use server software. Routers are most people's only always ON computer, and having the ability to run decentralized applications on them like
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New mailing list for integrating Tor Hidden Services into P2P apps & protocols(twitter.com)
2 points by obvio171 12y ago|0 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
That's great news! From what I saw, it seems like you implement onion routing separately from the Tor network, right? Do you have plans to integrate this into the official network as a way to incentivize relays too?
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by obvio171 12y ago
That's great to hear! I haven't decided anything, I'm just more familiar with Tor and thought this would be something interesting to do with it. I'm not even building anything really, just getting feedback on the idea. I
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by obvio171 12y ago
Btw, seems like Popcorn Time got removed from Github because of DMCA. Is that valid? The code wasn't pirated, so how does that make sense?
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by obvio171 12y ago
Is there any kind of connection privacy on cjdns? I'm not too familiar. With labels/studios spying on trackers/peers to go after downloaders, it's important to have that added security.
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by obvio171 12y ago
Which peers are connected to which, for example.
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by obvio171 12y ago
Hadn't heard of it, thanks for the link! Seems like it doesn't protect metadata though, does it?
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Putting the "Tor" back in "Torrent" with Hidden Services and Popcorn Time(gist.github.com)
107 points by obvio171 12y ago|26 comments
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by obvio171 12y ago
This "Popcorn Tor" (too bad can't use the name ;)) could also soft-enforce some download limit based on the amount of traffic the user has relayed. Sane defaults and interface nudges can go a long way.
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by obvio171 12y ago
Here's a related way to maybe add a ton of new relays to the Tor network without having to go all "transparent through virtual network interface" right from the start: 1. Make a torrent tracker that serves out peer onion addr
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by obvio171 12y ago
Good point. If any sufficiently complicated NAT traversal solution ends up containing an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the hidden services protocol, might as well put our efforts into building out
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by obvio171 12y ago
Those are very clever uses of this idea, glad to hear more people have thought of and run with it. I hadn't given GeoIP much thought yet, but you make an excellent point. GeoIP determining citizenship and basic civil liberties is indee
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by obvio171 12y ago
Thanks, I'll read them up. Skimming through, I saw this: "We [...] have built a system we have deployed on the Tor anonymity network [8] and on PlanetLab [13]." Do you know if it's still alive or what happened to it? Was
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by obvio171 12y ago
That could also work. You lose all the anonymity though, so only makes sense for when you need bandwidth and opt out of privacy. You could have separate virtual network interfaces for the different use cases.
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Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature?(gist.github.com)
47 points by obvio171 12y ago|17 comments
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by obvio171 14y ago
I like this model, because then you have a scarce resource (albeit artificially so) that costs you nothing to make more of and you can use it to encourage users to do stuff you want, like inviting others. You could very well do it Dropbox s
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by obvio171 14y ago
It seems like they're paying to post updates. It will be read-only of public posts for non-members.

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