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Dark web isn't inherently negative though, is it? It's not like they called it pedo-web.
It's very negative.
Think about it as dark side of the moon - an invisible place.
BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
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> Finally a good use for my license fee! While I agree that no news corporation should ever be censored and should be accessible to all including the "dark-web", the level of clickbait / fake-news level content on the BBC website is getting ridiculous in some areas and contradicts with their duty to be fair, impartial and balanced as the only UK state broadcaster privileged with a royal charter. Apart from the actual…
I think one of the issues the BBC suffers from is that in the attempt to be impartial they can sometimes give undue weight to crack-pot ideas. That said, I often see both sides of a debate complaining about the bias of the BBC. So long as that is the case then we can reasonably assume they are doing a fair job of walking the fine line between both sides.
> "both sides"
This has been the BBC response to criticism of its news reporting for a long time now.
However there are very few debates which have only two points of view, and the very act of reducing every issue to a "both sides" argument is a real problem for the BBC (well, for me anyway!)
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Both if possible. A Pi 3 can saturate its ethernet adapter (~50Mbps) running a Tor relay. It's reasonably straightforward to setup. You shouldn't run exit nodes from a home connection due to possible abuse. If a person uses it to do something illegal you may end up with law enforcement busting down your door. Relays are safe though.
I thought the consensus was that law enforcement can "crack" Tor these days (a la tracing the illegal traffic back to the source, not just the exit node) Is this not the case, or is it not a black/white answer?
No, that's not true.
Tor's anonymity depends on distributed control of its nodes. If one entity, say a government org, controls a large portion of entry and exit nodes it may be able to trace some requests. That's an attack that has been known since the beginning though, it's not new.
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> by default you give people the benefit of the doubt I actually tend to assume websites like HN are the NSA or at least the NSA have read access to their databases. Maybe it's my tinfoil hat tendencies but instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt I would rather not give them any data I don't mind the NSA having.
Everyone has read access to HN.. there are no private messages that I'm aware of, anyone can search this site using google
HN contains a lot of information that isn't visible on the public web. Ban lists, point counts, user access history, etc.
> Everyone has read access to HN
No, not to their databases as OP is discussing. It would be definitely a crime if any of us had that info as it would imply we broke in and stole it - but OP is suggesting that they assume NSA already has it (a potentially paranoid but also reasonably fair thing to do, IMO).
From a personnel standpoint, isn't Thiel on the board of HN/YC and doesn't Thiel have basically uncountable NSA/CIA/etc connections? I'm not saying Thiel has anything to do with HN's security - but clearly, saying HN's databases might be accessed by someone like CIA (while a board member of YC is active in sales & partnerships to CIA etc) isn't that crazy.
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I agree strongly with this - there has been a slow but steady decline in the quality of BBC news content over the past decade or so. It's not even confined to clickbait, the articles are getting seriously dumbed down too - you'd think many of them were written for children! And it's not even confined to online - the news section on Radio 1 is an absolute joke these days - if the online content is dumbed down, then th…
A random selection of headlines shown on the linked page: "Undercover at a 'seduction bootcamp’" "The peasant whose binge drinking went global" "'Why I'm desperate to get rid of my bum implants'" "We spent a morning in Rick Astley's home studio" This isn't even what I'd recognise as a bad day for the Beeb News site. Some days they just report on Twitter spats with headlines "Lizzo credits writer of 'DNA test' tweet a…
While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the unwashed masses towards quality content.
If you open up something like the World section (and subsections), you'll get a lot of good reporting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world
I also find the shows From Our Own Correspondent the Global News Podcast to be world-class news sources.
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> by default you give people the benefit of the doubt I actually tend to assume websites like HN are the NSA or at least the NSA have read access to their databases. Maybe it's my tinfoil hat tendencies but instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt I would rather not give them any data I don't mind the NSA having.
I think the HN database is available publicly for download.
It's not.
None of us know how many points your comment has, or if you have an email address on file, or how many times you visited HN today, or what IP you're using, etc. But all of those things are in the HN database(s) I'm sure!
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#167Since no one posted that, yet: Tor relies on the size the of its network to counteract blocks, prevent take overs, and naturally ensure stability as well as performance. You can either donate to various groups running Tor servers, the developers, or take part on your own. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Tor https://www.torservers.net/ https://www.dfri.se/donera/ https://nos-oignons.net/ https://donate.torproject.org…
Is it worth it to donate, or to just pool a little cash and start your own? Like, how do I know any of those links aren't the NSA? I ask because I have 5-6 Raspberry Pis, a couple retired Supermicro boxes, and old Cisco gear that isn't doing much...
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A random selection of headlines shown on the linked page: "Undercover at a 'seduction bootcamp’" "The peasant whose binge drinking went global" "'Why I'm desperate to get rid of my bum implants'" "We spent a morning in Rick Astley's home studio" This isn't even what I'd recognise as a bad day for the Beeb News site. Some days they just report on Twitter spats with headlines "Lizzo credits writer of 'DNA test' tweet a…
While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the unwashed masses towards quality content. If you open up something like the World section (and subsections), you'll get a lot of good reporting. https://www.bbc.com/news/world I also find the shows From…
Yeah I think that's a fair assessment. I also agree that From Our Own Correspondent is first rate.
The main problem I have is not a lack of good content but filtering good from frivolous.
You'll see that in the technology section too.
For every insightful article you'll find 3 discussing "so called "computer mice" are a way to interact with a so called computer"...
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think one of the issues the BBC suffers from is that in the attempt to be impartial they can sometimes give undue weight to crack-pot ideas. That said, I often see both sides of a debate complaining about the bias of the BBC. So long as that is the case then we can reasonably assume they are doing a fair job of walking the fine line between both sides.
> "both sides" This has been the BBC response to criticism of its news reporting for a long time now. However there are very few debates which have only two points of view, and the very act of reducing every issue to a "both sides" argument is a real problem for the BBC (well, for me anyway!)
Indeed, the fact that so much of British politics in recent years has be reduced to a binary proposition is probably a red flag.
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I think the HN database is available publicly for download.
It's not. None of us know how many points your comment has, or if you have an email address on file, or how many times you visited HN today, or what IP you're using, etc. But all of those things are in the HN database(s) I'm sure!
I'm normally the tinfoil-hat guy in any given discussion.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that my HN internet points score is not a signal of interest to NSA selection criteria.