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CETaS Paper – From Cybercrime to Vibercrime?(cetas.turing.ac.uk)
1 points by susan_segfault 5mo ago|0 comments
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Stand-Alone Complex or Vibercrime? Exploring GenAI in Cybercrime Ecosystems(arxiv.org)
2 points by susan_segfault 6mo ago|0 comments
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
This is a question I always find really interesting. There are still a lot of alternative systems circulating - often in the mid-latency space - which aim to solve design issues of Tor. Someone releases something intended to be a Tor killer
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
I would absolutely agree that there's journalists who get significant power and protection from their proximity to major institutions and centres of power. Tor is useful for protecting journalists in situations where they don't ha
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
Aye absolutely - some links here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744367/tor-by-ben-c...
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
Also - it's completely free open access, but you can also buy a copy here if you like spending money: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/tor/
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
Those are fair points. I would argue that it's not the tech that's weak, but that the protection that powerful people get from institutions, local networks, status in their communities etc. often give them so much access to practi
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
Fully open access PDF version free here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-D... Though do consider buying it if you like it!
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
There's a lot in the book about this - it depends what you mean. Tor has a lot of social and technical design elements that try as best they can to minimise this risk. It would be pretty hard for intelligence services to compromise the
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
(with the understanding that I'm only speaking for what I found, not for the Tor project or the relay community) Most of the people I spoke to saw themselves as providing a service - they wanted to help do something to bring a particul
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by susan_segfault 2y ago
Cheers for this, I'm the author - AMA! :) A big motivation in writing the book was to feature the voices of the people we often don't hear from in the Tor community (which is why there's a whole chapter on the people who run
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Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press)(mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by susan_segfault 2y ago|0 comments
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by susan_segfault 6y ago
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~bjc63/Crime_is_boring.pdf