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Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by esyir »

colesantiago wrote: post #14

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I despise crypto, but telling an underfunded OSS project to abandon scarce funding for what is a relatively minor ideological reason definitely rubs me the wrong way.

Rather than demanding them to change, why not find a way to help secure them a source of less objectionable funding.

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by iamnotarobotman »

WesternWind wrote: post #17
iamnotarobotman wrote: post #7

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Most people using tor aren't terrorists, oligarchs, extremists or career criminals though.

Have you finally cracked the Tor network yet to find and trace all those Nazis, extremists, hitmen and terrorists that are still hiding there to make that unfounded claim?

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by gzer0 »

andai wrote: post #18
ajconway wrote: post #13

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Not really. TOR is specifically not safe against a global passive observer, which the (supposedly) good guys are.

I've been wondering about this. Afaik Ross Ulbricht was caught due to shitty opsec. Was that a case of the NSA having that capability and not sharing it with the FBI?

Ulbricht was first connected to "Dread Pirate Roberts" by Gary Alford, an Internal Revenue Service investigator working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on the Silk Road case, in mid-2013.The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Arrest

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by guerby »

qersist3nce wrote: post #8

So at this point it is ready for passing traffic through a SOCKS proxy. Meaning we can `cargo run --release -- proxy` and redirect applications to use port `9150` for their network connections. Couple of related questions: - Does anyone know, in a Linux distro, how to pass all system traffic through a SOCKS proxy port? I'm not looking for intermediary proxy handlers but an official method to force all user and system…

The way it's done is described here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166692/how-does-a-t...

A part from tor I don't know if there's a generic tool packaging this.

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by guerby »

guerby wrote: post #24
qersist3nce wrote: post #8

So at this point it is ready for passing traffic through a SOCKS proxy. Meaning we can `cargo run --release -- proxy` and redirect applications to use port `9150` for their network connections. Couple of related questions: - Does anyone know, in a Linux distro, how to pass all system traffic through a SOCKS proxy port? I'm not looking for intermediary proxy handlers but an official method to force all user and system…

The way it's done is described here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166692/how-does-a-t... A part from tor I don't know if there's a generic tool packaging this.

Found one here:

https://hev.cc/3033.html

https://github.com/heiher/hev-socks5-tproxy

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by colesantiago »

ArtWomb wrote: post #26
colesantiago wrote: post #14

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Small crypto grants seem perfectly designed for just such a project as Tor! I mean if one discounts the possibility of a rug pull situation, it has all the hallmarks: privacy preserving, decentralized, fungible ;)

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Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by colesantiago »

WesternWind wrote: post #20
colesantiago wrote: post #14

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I mean I urge folks who have the ability to direct some of their company's money towards Tor. It's directly helping both Ukranian and Russian citizens right now.

Sure Tor helps Ukrainian and Russian citizens, but I urge the Tor foundation to question themselves and to stop accepting crypto token donations and grants.

It acts as an endorsement and emboldens the cryptobros, enthusiasts and fans to pump the price of the token.

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by justinclift »

iamnotarobotman wrote: post #22
WesternWind wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people using tor aren't terrorists, oligarchs, extremists or career criminals though.

Have you finally cracked the Tor network yet to find and trace all those Nazis, extremists, hitmen and terrorists that are still hiding there to make that unfounded claim?

Seems to be exactly as unfounded as yours, yes?

Re: Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust

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Post by colesantiago »

esyir wrote: post #21
colesantiago wrote: post #14

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I despise crypto, but telling an underfunded OSS project to abandon scarce funding for what is a relatively minor ideological reason definitely rubs me the wrong way. Rather than demanding them to change, why not find a way to help secure them a source of less objectionable funding.

I would want them to at least go to the Rust Foundation Grants Program [0] or perhaps the Mozilla Foundation grants program [1].

This isn't minor, Wikimedia [2] is also asking the same thing of their project and they shouldn't use or endorse these crypto tokens, same thing as Tor.

[0] https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2021-12-09-news-rust-f...

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_ac...

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