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I want a short HOWTO linked from this article.
I would love to do this for my personal site. Not sure if I am willing to spend 4 hours on figuring it out though.
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Frankly this is one of the few non-financial areas where blockchain-like technologies make sense: anonymously creating and routing connections. Right now, you can encrypt the contents of your email, but there is no hiding who is the recipient and who is the sender, certainly not from the mail service on either end. Until you solve that problem (for example, by posting encrypted versions on a public blockchain), you n…
How does a blockchain solve the anonymity and routing problem? If I post anything on a public blockchain it will be cryptographically verified to have come from a specific account because all transactions are signed: https://blog.signatura.co/using-the-blockchain-as-a-digital-... . > Bitcoin uses digital signatures (ECDSA) to prove ownership of funds, so sending bitcoins requires the owner of them to digitally sign a…
I'm in charge of a security for a reasonable sized company. I generally support the Tor project and the goals of having a surveillance free internet. However - if an employee would install tor browser or use tor on a company device, or a device attached to the company network, they would be fired immediately. I would then refer them to law enforcement after conducting a forensic audit. Should you make your site only…
I do remember the "kids who use Linux are hackers" arguments from schools; arguments that still occasionally pop up on rare occasions. And even more recently, I see the pushback from administrators and ISPs over encrypted DNS.
My instinct in this situation is that the "only criminals need privacy" argument is probably evergreen, and that Tor probably isn't in a unique position.
Of course, companies can choose what to install on their own devices, and they can choose what software they'll allow to connect to their networks. The Tor project changes nothing about employers' rights to control and monitor the hardware that they issue. It's normal for workplace networks to have more restrictions than ordinary networks.
Nevertheless, if (beyond those policies) your instinct is that anyone you see using Tor is probably a criminal, then I'm not sure you can honestly claim that you "generally support the Tor project and the goals of having a surveillance free internet." A casual observer would be forgiven for thinking that maybe the opposite is true, and you're terrified of a world where the Internet can't be monitored -- particularly the ordinary, everyday Internet as accessed by regular nontechnical people on their regular, everyday smartphones and laptops.
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How does a blockchain solve the anonymity and routing problem? If I post anything on a public blockchain it will be cryptographically verified to have come from a specific account because all transactions are signed: https://blog.signatura.co/using-the-blockchain-as-a-digital-... . > Bitcoin uses digital signatures (ECDSA) to prove ownership of funds, so sending bitcoins requires the owner of them to digitally sign a…
Perhaps you are not familiar with Monero or Zcash.
google.com/recaptcha connect.facebook.net static.chartbeat.com ak.sail-horizon.com pi.pardot.com htlbid.com
A separate concern, besides this choice of example, is why ProPublica is normally helping to leak the identities and intimate browsing behavior of people who visit their site, to some of the most powerful and invasive corporations, given this mission:
> ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.
What’s the advantage of accessing an onion service (as opposed to accessing a normal https website over tor)?
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Frankly this is one of the few non-financial areas where blockchain-like technologies make sense: anonymously creating and routing connections. Right now, you can encrypt the contents of your email, but there is no hiding who is the recipient and who is the sender, certainly not from the mail service on either end. Until you solve that problem (for example, by posting encrypted versions on a public blockchain), you n…
I understand. Still, I feel better using ProtonMail than FastMail, and I consider FastMail to be preferable to gmail. I also feel better only touching Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook in a private browsing tab. I understand that they can to some extent still use my data to make money for themselves and not share any back with me. I understand that even limiting the data collected in me, I am still subject to nudging, he…
I often take the effort to convert the URL's to these sites before sharing with others (there are plugins that do this automatically).
Also check https://switching.software
Why haven't we seen a pay-for-use version of Tor yet? The network won't scale unless exit and relay nodes are incentivized with value beyond warm-fuzzies.
I'm in charge of a security for a reasonable sized company. I generally support the Tor project and the goals of having a surveillance free internet. However - if an employee would install tor browser or use tor on a company device, or a device attached to the company network, they would be fired immediately. I would then refer them to law enforcement after conducting a forensic audit. Should you make your site only…
I wasn't as active on the Internet during the initial rise of HTTPS, but I wonder how many companies, schools, and public stores threw the exact same fits back then when they realized there might be a world where they could no longer MITM every web request that went across their routers. I do remember the "kids who use Linux are hackers" arguments from schools; arguments that still occasionally pop up on rare occasio…