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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,…

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 othe…

> 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 …

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 exi…

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-poli…

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 targete…

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…

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 comple…

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-s…

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 …

It’s a drop in the bucket for state actors who might want to find TORs target user base of dissidents, whistleblowers, and journalists.

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…

Pardon inbound

As depicted in the move "The Abyss". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing

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 cultur…

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 wa…

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.thalesgrou…

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 i…

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 ot…

I want to believe.

This article is from 2020. It may not represent anything current. It should be marked with the year on the headline.

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 Citizen…

A launcher is visible on Google Maps, and is still there. I drove by it today. https://goo.gl/maps/LByxzGzqQ28ETtJb9

Archive link: https://archive.ph/bgYoq

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.…