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Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by barrysteve »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #34

The eternal struggle. Information wants to be free, and then people use those freedoms to do the most screwed up things imaginable, and people like this pay the price. It’s a damn shame how the original cyberpunk dream played out. We could’ve had a world where companies couldn’t do anything about people using their ideas. Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators…

Free information is worth what you paud for it.

Authority figures and scientists don't share the expensive info.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by tguvot »

tomcam wrote: post #338
tguvot wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i traveled across europe in car at same time frame with pocket pc (asus mypal) and igo maps loaded on it (still have it in my drawer). those days you can get igo offline maps on android. also sygic. it was always strange that google maps was accepted as some kind of magic while turn by turn navigation with voice directions was available from mid 2000s nowdays i always have sygic installed on my phone. came handy when…

> turn by turn navigation with voice directions was available from mid 2000s Did those turn by turn systems allow you to just drag the map onscreen anywhere to change location to anyplace on earth? To drop pins and send links to anyone in an email? To be updated instantly and for free when the data was refreshed?

>Did those turn by turn systems allow you to just drag the map onscreen anywhere to change location to anyplace on earth?

as long as you had maps installed for this area - yes

>To drop pins and send links to anyone in an email?

yea. multi-point navigation with ability to search along the route/in the area/specific city/etc. all without breaking route. you could also save route iirc. i had 2 weeks road trip pre-planned.

there was some ability to share route/coordinates. don't remember details

> To be updated instantly and for free when the data was refreshed?

back than maps weren't updated that frequently. in general.

on the other side, it gave you ability to go anywhere without having a data connection. google offline maps are still very limited. igo was showing on screen next two maneuvers back than. google still didn't figure it out. or ability to show real 3D landscape and 3D landmarks/buildings. or ability to mark street as blocked so navigation will route around. getting traffic information from radio in case there is no internet.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by KeplerBoy »

chollida1 wrote: post #315
rvba wrote: post #260

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Looking at the scale of NordVPN they either already have a liason with aurhorities inside, or are hacked by authorities. The (law enforcement) agencies can just go to the few biggest VPN suppliers. Just like they go to FAANG.

> Looking at the scale of NordVPN they either already have a liason with aurhorities inside, or are hacked by authorities. Based on what? You just seem to be making a wild unsubstantiated conjecture here.

It's the perfect honeypot situation, isn't it?

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by johnnyanmac »

Eisenstein wrote: post #278
ip26 wrote: post #250

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There are many, many… It’s a little puzzling to me still why this is. Physical attraction to almost-adults isn’t some big mystery, but most cp is something else entirely.

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>it does not exist in any particular way as an obvious evolutionary benefit except for adult-adult-heterosexual.

it's not unique to nature. You're in heat, you want to mate with anything that looks attractive. What's attractive will vary immensely based on societal and personal experience, for reasons we still cannot fully understand as the human mind is still a huge secret to unlock. It's not perfect in the same way that few parts of nature are perfectly optimized. Remants of old patterns or general heuristics on "what is good enough" will remain and they can persist for very long times.

The only unique-ish thing about humans is that we have no "mating period". We are continuously in heat compared to most of nature, so that urge remains around consistently. Virtually every form of society has evolved some sort of culture to control these urges (as well as ways to control sexual conflict, which is another topic entirely) in order to advance as a civilization otherwise it'd be non-stop mating

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by wonderwonder »

sudosysgen wrote: post #347
wonderwonder wrote: post #330

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Tate is an incel? "a member of an online community of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually" I think Tate is going to be super surprised to learn that. Dude is many things, an incel is not one of them. Perhaps you have been caught up in the hysteria and are attributing things to him that he is not responsible for? I'm not a Tate fan and think he is probably not a good person but there has…

He's not an incel, but he specifically targets incels and the incel movement. Men who don't have any problems finding women they want to date aren't a suitable target for this kind of rhetoric.

Does he encourage them to remain incels or to better themselves and become something else? Seens like incels are pretty bad and we should encourage them to not be incels anymore.

I do realize he doesn't do this out of the kindness of his heart and there is a monetary aspect.

As far as people that are not incels not being a target for his rhetoric, I somewhat disagree. He preaches a lot about discipline, and personal responsibility. Something I can relate to. I am not an incel, I am happily married with kids, financially successful, and decent looking. I say this not to brag, there are many people on this site multiples more successful than I am but just to illustrate that very few people are 100% bad and worthy of silencing. There can be good in most messaging. The OP I replied to advocated for silencing Tate, I personally don't think anyone should be silenced, we are all responsible for our own actions and reactions to stimuli.

The few truly evil people on this earth live on in history books, everyone else is shades of grey.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by rvnx »

MatekCopatek wrote: post #14
rvnx wrote: post #6

Quite logical, same in France and likely many countries; if you run a Tor exit node (or any type of open proxy), you get visited by the police if someone does something wrong on your exit node. Otherwise what could happen is that you run a Tor node and use it as an excuse for any crime you do.

Couldn't you say the same for every coffee shop that gives random people Wi-Fi access?

Yes, exactly, https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/des-patrons-de-bars-en-garde-...

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by Eisenstein »

jrflowers wrote: post #327
Eisenstein wrote: post #278

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I’m no expert here but I’m going to guess that equivocating gay people and pedophiles is not the best starting point to understanding pedophiles.

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Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by johnnyanmac »

pessimizer wrote: post #264
xigoi wrote: post #231

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The issue has become so emotionalized that if you say anything that even remotely looks like supporting pedophilia, people will tell you to go kill yourself.

They'll do that if you criticize the Barbie movie, or fail to.

Barbie has always been strangely entwined in the political atmosphere, funnily enough. You become an iconic kids toy and it's inevitable.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by barrysteve »

throwaway914 wrote: post #196
sillysaurusx wrote: post #34

The eternal struggle. Information wants to be free, and then people use those freedoms to do the most screwed up things imaginable, and people like this pay the price. It’s a damn shame how the original cyberpunk dream played out. We could’ve had a world where companies couldn’t do anything about people using their ideas. Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators…

There are many, many pedophiles out there. I'm also convinced of a conspiracy theory that a lot of dark web traffic and hosts are created/operated by secret parts of the gov to de-legitimize the need for anonymity. I believe this because it would be too easy with the access to that material and no oversight. Just muddy the waters so nothing in there looks worth protecting.

You literally don't need a tinfoil conspiracy for that idea.

IBM is moving to passwordless auth on their server access. Preferring biometrics. Their youtube channel tells you directly.

The "mainstream" culture has been pushing that idea for five years now, Philomena Cunk said we shouldn't follow the anonymous guy in 2018, golly gosh.

My iphone plainly face scans me and my shopping malls and sports stadiums do the same.

Frankly the last place left to BE anonymous is Tor and on soap-box websites like this where the admin can decipher my ID but you don't know who I am.

Obiwan has the realistic attitude. "The war's over. We lost."

It's impossible to completely eliminate secrets, but the liberty of the 1990s is deader than a dodo. Anonymity, the unknown citizen, staying off the map is basically reserved for martians now.

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