The military needs, or needed, Tor to be functioning and anonymous for their own use, correct?
Tor was created to help dissidents of other nations communicate. The military does not run on Tor.
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A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tor was created to help dissidents of other nations communicate. The military does not run on Tor.
> Tor was created to help dissidents of other nations communicate [1] Why would the US Navy develop something to help dissidents in other nations? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Histor... > The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and D…
I think the confusion here is some of us were talking about Tor as in "the onion router" as a protocol and some were talking about The Tor Project software. Who knows if government agencies use the tor project, or have their own specialized version.
The only reason I asked was because I've heard that government agencies need Tor because it's in their best interest to have channels for anonymity (again, not giving an opinion on whether it's good or bad, just a fact). So if methods for breaking that anonymity arise, I'd imagine it's a concern for them as much as any dissident out there.
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You might be responding to the wrong post.
No, I was responding to this: "minor fixes may end up doing a lot of good". They won't, since the purpose is just to have somewhere to store people. The actual crime isn't very interesting, the thing of importance is that they have somewhere to store them.
We need to stop dehumanizing prisoners. Prisoners are people and they shouldn't be "stored" anywhere. They're humans. They live places.
Re: A dark web tycoon pleads guilty, but how was he caught?
#144Running a hosting server for onion services, as was done in this case, is a terrible idea. It greatly increases the risk of deanonymization. The question is less how this hosting service was discovered and more how it ever stayed up long enough to become so notorious. Here's why: 1. Each hidden service chooses a "guard" relay to serve as the first hop for all connections. 2. A server running multiple hidden services…
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While Ross did do some bad things, I do not think it is enough to warrant a double life sentence plus forty years without the possibility of parole. El Chapo, an actual drug cartel member who is directly responsible for thousands of deaths, only got a single life sentence. Ross got screwed on his sentencing and it is totally unjustified. Free Ross!
You're insane. His site facilitated numerous drug deals for profit. He also paid bitcoin in what he thought was a hit-job (he was duped). This dumbass can rot in prison. Screw him.
There is nothing wrong with facilitating drug deals and there is not a shred of evidence to support the other allegation. An allegation from the US government means absolutely nothing to me.
It's also quite ironic that an organization that has assassinated numerous people are attempting to destroy the reputation of one of their enemies by claiming that he attempted to assassinate somebody.
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Where there's a will, there's a way. The internet is designed to send data from point A to point B. Keeping point A and point B truly anonymous means that the internet won't work. Tools like Tor don't really protect you, it's more like they make it hard enough to figure out who you are that only people with strong incentives will track you down.
> Keeping point A and point B truly anonymous Read and write encrypted packets to alt.anon ?
Single point of failure: all you have to do is compromise alt.anon.
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There is a much simpler way to solve the problem: reduce the weekly working hours. Instead of working 40 hours, require people to work 35 or less. Instead, what governments around the world are doing is using the excuse of technology to increase the working hours, therefore causing hourly pay to go down and increasing poverty. It is a completely destructive social policy, and we're all paying the price in some way.
The problem here, as always, is that all of the routine jobs that require minimal employee knowledge are being automated. The remaining jobs, even in 'blue collar' areas, now involve job-specific knowledge which takes time and money to impart and which goes stale if not used regularly. It's far less effective to have two part-time engineers design a widget than it is to have one full-time engineer design it. It's eve…
I'm not talking about part time jobs, full time jobs should require less hours of work for the same full time payment.
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No, I was responding to this: "minor fixes may end up doing a lot of good". They won't, since the purpose is just to have somewhere to store people. The actual crime isn't very interesting, the thing of importance is that they have somewhere to store them.
We need to stop dehumanizing prisoners. Prisoners are people and they shouldn't be "stored" anywhere. They're humans. They live places.
Something has to be done. It's either the case that they are productive members of society, in which case they are rarely imprisoned, or that they are not, in which case they often are.
Children aren't productive members of society, therefore we store them in schools until they've grown up. Same principle - I'm not dehumanizing kids, for the record.
The reason there are more prisoners in America is because there's a larger underclass who are forced out of employment for structural reasons. As long as these issues persist (and indeed, they will get far worse), we have to keep the unemployment rate down somehow. Prisons are just the end effect of this requirement.
The important thing to remember is that the alleged crime doesn't actually matter. This is also why corrupt Wall Street bankers rarely get harsh prison sentences. Why would they, when they're going to be able to find a job without much trouble anyway?
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There are numerous unjust laws that infringe on the rights of the individual. Not only is it morally defensible to break such laws, but it is a good for respectable people to do so in order to reclaim behavioral territory and psychological freedom from the police state. This demonstrates to others that being a "criminal" is not a moral status but a legal one. It may even be a social duty.
It is a dangerous ground thought... Who decide what is just or unjust? Different people have different values and believes in what is just or unjust. I agree that some laws may need to be changed. But should we not have discussions on changing the laws instead of breaking them? This obviously implies a good democratic system so it may be different is some nations.
>Who decide what is just or unjust?
Everybody does. Everybody must, because delegating the decision in itself is merely an option of that decision. Whether you obey power, follow your own greed, defer to social norms, or carefully weigh your own values and the consequences of your actions for yourself, all people are moral agents whether or not they realize which path they are following.
You raise a reasonable objection; I'm not advocating murder or wanton lawlessness. But here's a whole category of illegitimate laws that should be disobeyed: prohibitions born out of moral panic. These laws don't restrict actual harm, whether immediate like violence or accreted like pollution. They restrict the mere chance of harm by denying individual agency, out of fear that it could possibly be used for harm by even the tiniest number of people.
That's why simply discussing these laws isn't enough. They originate in fear and blindness that can't be reasoned against. The mere word of the thing evokes a fear response that shuts down thought: "drugs", "guns", "homosexuality", "racial integration". Good people have to be willing to break the law to show the difference between the panic and the actual outcomes.
Societal progress doesn't come from people musing about what they think they'd like to try, if only it were legal. It comes from people who risk everything to say "This forbidden thing is actually good and we know because we've done it, and it's so important that even banning it won't stop us".
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That only leads you to the server though, not to the person managing it.
But that's all they need though. A simple national security letter (NSL) without even needing to get a warrant and BOOM you can tap the server and get all info about the person running it.
A national security letter can not compel someone to tap a server for the government or allow the government to tap a server. A NSL can only request existing collected records. So for exampe a NSL could request any logs a service provider has regarding who paid for the server or any access logs they retain regarding the server. If they do not have any logs a NSL can't compel them to start collecting them. A NSL which requests actions or information outside of the scope allowed by law can be challenged in court.