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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "How do you even determine what is notable?" See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
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Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US(motherboard.vice.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
Original post on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17043340
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Domain Fronting Is Critical to the Open Web(blog.torproject.org)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "4 times in this thread. That's a bit much" Point taken, I'll be more careful in the future. > "kind of dodgy to do without mentioning that you wrote it" The article is completely neutral, cites reliabl
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "private companies are typically free to do as they please in free countries ... free governments also tend to have strong laws respecting the sovereignty of other nations" Not always. For example, the Foreign Corrupt Practic
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "your Signal" Just to be clear, I am not affiliated with Signal in any way. I am just a user. > "your freshly minted wiki page" I am a regular contributor to Wikipedia, and I created the article on "collater
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by tonyztan 8y ago
AWS and Google Cloud should have refused to cooperate. Let Russia block them and bear the economic costs of censorship.
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by tonyztan 8y ago
China is huge compared to those other oppressive regimes out there. Also, AFAIK, China hasn't been able to recreate GitHub. Since GitHub is HTTPS-only and China needs it enough to not block it, a lot of censorship circumvention tools a
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by tonyztan 8y ago
That's the entire point of domain fronting and collateral freedom: to make censorship as expensive as possible for oppresive regimes.
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Because this spoofing only prevents the ISP / government censors from seeing the correct destination. I would argue that the ISP and the government censors have no legitimate right to that information in the first place, especially if
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "unfortunately we can't just enlist every other business to help" But we should! Telex[1] and other solutions based on collateral freedom[2] have huge potential to disrupt censorship from the outside. [1] https:/&#
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by tonyztan 8y ago
They would care if there are financial consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
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by tonyztan 8y ago
We don't need oppressive regimes to "realize" they're oppressive. We simply need to shift the incentives by making it financially expensive to censor. This is known as "collateral freedom"[1], and has been used
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "It's not like Github did this today after neglecting the feature request for years" https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
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T-Mobile and Sprint: all the news about the merger(theverge.com)
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by tonyztan 8y ago
It should be the government's responsibility to ensure you're not a citizen, but until they do this reliabily, you can get a U.S. passport card. It proves citizenship and is credit card sized.
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by tonyztan 8y ago
> "claim that your citizenship is invalid because it was obtained via deception" This cannot be simply asserted by ICE. To revoke naturalized citizenship, the government must initiate denaturalization proceedings in U.S. Distri
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by tonyztan 8y ago
Based on my reading, it is a mistake at first, but when the government discovered the mistake, they just pressed on and tried to argue that actually he wasn't a citizen anyway.
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by tonyztan 8y ago
IANAL, but if ICE actually detained a U.S. citizen, wouldn't the citizen have the right to file a habeas petition regardless of the "immigration" nature of detention?
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by tonyztan 8y ago
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924044
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Online Signature Services Are Broken(hackingdistributed.com)
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Recycler sentenced to 15 months for selling discs with free Microsoft software(theverge.com)
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E-waste recycler sentenced to prison for distributing computer restore disks(js.washingtonpost.com)
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Someone Is Trying to Extort iPhone Crackers GrayShift with Leaked Code(motherboard.vice.com)
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Letter to Georgia Governor on Why He Should Veto Dangerous Cybersecurity Bill(rietta.com)
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A Google update just created a big problem for anti-censorship tools(theverge.com)
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by tonyztan 9y ago
> The other benefit to this is if you misplace a wallet, and find it years later it’s like finding cash in your dress pants you don’t really wear all the time. There were also some who accidentally threw their old computers / hard d
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Felony suspects who get away by crossing state lines (2014)(usatoday.com)
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Lawmakers Call FBI's 'Going Dark' Narrative 'Highly Questionable'(motherboard.vice.com)
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