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Has anyone ever experimented with reversing the analog loop with machine learning? Generating the training data would be easy. Play audio files through a speaker and record the speaker with a microphone. Then you have the original and the analog recording. Train the machine to reverse the process. Now you can grab high quality audio from any source. Same could be done for video, but would require a more elaborate set…
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This is a good point; If you're a contrarian (or in my case dinosaur) go back to physical media and back up your own copy for personal use. Our library still brings in physical copies of everything in various formats, which is good because the electronic borrowing rules imposed on libraries are ridiculous.
And buy what you can used - you get the physical copy and the RIAA/MPAA gets nothing.
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> I wonder why there are so few people Maybe because people understand that it's security model is flawed: the peers in the mesh treat all the other peers as not trusted, that's okay; but the network design doesn't seem to take into account potential hostility of the physical medium itself. Say, your ISP can tarpit packets or shape traffic, or shut down the power or cell tower in your block temporarily, and then meas…
AFAIK garlic routing is still harder to crack than Tor: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor . The main advantage of Tor is the number of users.
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AFAIK garlic routing is still harder to crack than Tor: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor . The main advantage of Tor is the number of users.
I doubt the number of nodes is important when you can split a large group of them into a few subgroups and analyze them or alter how they interact with each other, then repeat subdivision; because again, them overlay networks are like smaller sandboxes inside the big one.
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I doubt the number of nodes is important when you can split a large group of them into a few subgroups and analyze them or alter how they interact with each other, then repeat subdivision; because again, them overlay networks are like smaller sandboxes inside the big one.
Don’t forget that you have to do all this within 10 minutes, because after that time the network configuration will be totally different.
at some point the video is decrypted and exists on your machine, in memory. if you raid the cache after you force buffering bcz 4K and narrow bandwidth then you cant help but make a copy to your hard drive or other such non volatile. here is one such approach: https://www.wikihow.com/Save-Streaming-Video here is my search string just as a knee jerk, but a deliberately crafted string will pop some real gems. https://h…
I read an interview with Gottfrid Warg (pirate bay co-founder) some years back. Can't find it now... What stuck with me was his disappointment that the wider torrent community simply relied on the pirate bay always making a return. There was no real effort to go beyond resilient hosting. No producing facts by superior technology. It was just a bunch of copy-cats playing whac-a-mole with the copyright industry. To par…
> There's only very few projects (that I know of) that are really addressing resilient, organized, curated content dissemination, and they're essentially divorced from the pirate scene. Too bad I guess. Why would someone trying to build something like PeerTube Or IPFS want to explicitly support piracy? All that does is bring negative pressure down on them and we see in this very discussion, the MAFIAA is more than ha…
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Starlink might solve the issue of providing internet to far-flung places, which is great. But I'm skeptical they'll be able to massively undercut all of the telecom providers. Building, launching and maintaining a satellite constellation isn't cheap; it's still a question as to whether the economics will work at all.
The announced pricing for the current "beta" is $99/month plus $500 upfront for the hardware.
Does it then make the use of 1.1.1.1 any dangerous? Not that it reveals access to torrent sites, but resolving one of them like 30 times in a week might send some alerts.