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by wfn 13y ago
I think that's the idea. All connections would be routed via Tor. Additionally, the local system wouldn't know the external IP address (would only know the eventual Tor exiting IP address.) It's possible to virtualize Tor (wi
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by wfn 13y ago
> And then he offers you to lead tor, with funding, and explains that this is a network that is hard to break ,so even if NSA can break it, it wouldn't do it for silly stuff , only for emergencies. > You don't need to be a b
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by wfn 13y ago
> One relevant data point:the author of mixminion remailer is working for the tor project,probably killing mixminion(a far more secure anonymizer). Do you mean Nick Mathewson or Roger Dingledine? Both are working for Tor now, as a matter
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by wfn 13y ago
> In the case of the commenter below, 100% of his comments are short, and of them most are valueless or negatively valuable. I agree this might have been a poor choice re: this particular user. > maybe [pg] could append the reason the
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by wfn 13y ago
It's more complicated than that. As of now, the major part of Tor's funding (still) comes from multiple sections of the US government. Nobody likes that, and this is being discussed. (e.g. [1]) The overall relationship between USG
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Tor security advisory: Old Tor Browser Bundles vulnerable(lists.torproject.org)
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by wfn 13y ago
deadreturns2: fyi, you are shadowbanned (this means people won't see and won't be able to reply to your comments). Not sure why.
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by wfn 13y ago
HN has a nesting limit for comments (for probably good reasons), so replying here. Yes, I get your point. > If there were more terrorists caught than people dying in car accidents, that would justify NSA activity in his eyes. Ok, then ou
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by wfn 13y ago
Straw man. You can be a consequentialist but still see the absurd rhetoric of the 'war on terror', noting actual casualty numbers due to 'terrorism'.
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Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum: Q & A Marathon (July 24th)(gnunet.org)
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by wfn 13y ago
Indeed - and this is not even a hypothecial (i.e. it is more than that): this is what happened in Denmark, m. ore or less, afaik. [references may appear later.] This mode of thought cannot be construed as a hyperbole.
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by wfn 13y ago
Now see, that's why everybody should use Tor now and then! :) That way this unique characteristic will become common enough for a generic filter on Tor users to become ineffective (by their measures). If you don't want to be see
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by wfn 13y ago
Sure, but I don't think it's a bad idea to raise the median level of expected standards. It seems reasonable to ask for clearer reports and some kind of a postmortem. One of the hopes for the notion of startups searching / op
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by wfn 13y ago
While this is a nice video, it rests on a model that is not completely true to the point that the video which stands upon it is actually misleading. I refer you to the fine Bad Astronomy blog: http://www.slate.com/blogs&#x2F
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by wfn 13y ago
Ah, you are quite right, I should have emphasized that point! (I guess I simply wanted to get to the drogulus part, but ended up expanding a bit.) Indeed, the main paper introducing Kademlia is basically called, "P2P network based on
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by wfn 13y ago
Tonika looks really interesting and relevant to multiple interests of mine - it may be something I'd been looking for some time, actually. Will read up on it (I've seen the particular arXiv paper Tonika design rests on before, but
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by wfn 13y ago
The latter, as far as I take it. That is, each given Kademlia-based system defines a 'close-enough' / neighbourhood constant. If a given result from xor is <= that constant, you have reached your destination. Because obvio
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by wfn 13y ago
Oh wonderful, thanks for the reply! And thanks for the links (the "Politics, Programming, Data and the Drogulus" post had already been placed in my when-have-time-random-reading-list, cool.) I'll be sure to follow up with com
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by wfn 13y ago
Haven't heard of Drogulus before, sounds interesting. Anything that implements a Kademlia-like decentralized key-value datastore (basically, a DHT) gets my curiosity. Kademlia is a system/protocol how to implement a DHT and how to
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by wfn 13y ago
This is a very nice tutorial. A very small (but rather important, depending on occasion/readership) detail: [...] gpg --encrypt --sign --armor -r recipient@email -r your@email.com filename [...] -r recipient Specifies
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by wfn 13y ago
For starters - see Hebbian theory. [1] Backprop falls within the class of 'supervised learning' which can indeed be said not to be very biologically realistic. However, reinforcement learning is observed, so the overall picture is
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by wfn 13y ago
If by 'system' you mean the one the user is authenticating to, then yes, afaik. For one to have data encryption, it'd have to be coupled together with a data encryption solution. If 'system' (in your last sentence)
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by wfn 13y ago
You are right, when you look at it like that, my comment was a bit of a hijack. The threat model in question assumes that the attackers know that the person in question has a way to auth / is part of an encrypted / limited access
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by wfn 13y ago
In light of this, here's a fun paper/idea (+implementation) to consider: "Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks" https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo
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by wfn 13y ago
I agree that what the NK regime is and has for a long time been doing to the people of NK is brutal, atrocious and nigh-unimaginable, at least when you try to understand the scale of it all / of the labour camps where people are born a
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by wfn 13y ago
Would you care to elaborate why, if you feel like it? When I try to cognize the word "evil", I get hazy connotations in my mind. Why North Korea in particular, what are your criteria? (genuinely curious.)
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by wfn 13y ago
Indeed; > I remember an interview where he talked about how much he enjoyed listening to the traffic outside his apartment. I recall that video - here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y
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by wfn 13y ago
I'd ditto the question ;) Semi-recent thread with some interesting-looking suggestions, not sure of 'hard' scifi label though: http://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1eyt3b/is_there_any... I'd recommend other books by Greg Egan, though.
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by wfn 13y ago
Hm. I suppose a hacky-ugly-cheapo way to do this would be to run a daemon under root which accesses a local sqlite db or whatnot (and that file is only reachable by root). When a web/whatever app needs to check a hash, it asks the daemon wh
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by wfn 13y ago
Good stuff. Also, The picture of Klein’s quartic curve was made by Greg Egan, and you should also check out his page on Klein’s quartic curve. For anyone curious, Greg Egan writes interesting hard scifi. A particularly interesting

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