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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/y3p...

Direct link:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-ma...

Didn't google deprecate/stop prioritizing AMP? so why are they still using it?

Is it because Its an opportunity to track users so use it as longer as possible?

Re: Tor Project Board Member is CEO of Company Selling Capability for Attribution

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While I can appreciate the measured tone in TFA, at some point you've got to take a step back and ask what the hell is going on. This instance reeks of an egregious conflict of interest and this response is negligent on behalf of the board . The current TOR Board scenario is akin to having a known child-abusing relative babysit your own kid, catching them inexplicably sitting with the kid alone in a darkened room in…

Tor was taken over by the CIA a while ago when they purged the old hacker board for "inappropriate behavior towards women": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/jacob-app... You know, the same thing they did to Assange. I wonder how that's going. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/assa-j28.html >Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity Oh yeah. But hey, we might h…

Maybe if those two guys had kept their dicks in their pants and not gone around molesting and raping as if they were somehow immune to any consequences, they'd not have got in any trouble for it.

Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned.

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#23

If you are using Tor, seriously ask yourself if it's a good idea to install software that was developed by DARPA and has never solved the exit node problem.

I have really bad news: the internet was formulated by the government. But seriously, the exit node issue is a real sore thumb.

Which exit node issue in particular?

That it's hard to get enough volunteer capacity, that exit node operators can sometimes get in trouble for things users did, that attackers can run exit nodes in order to look at traffic content, that attackers can run undisclosed families of relays in order to perform some traffic correlation attacks when a circuit uses multiple relays controlled by the same party, or that some sites may block or CAPTCHA exit nodes?

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> But of course, not actively endangering our users is a low bar. It is reasonable to raise questions about the inherent disconnection between the business model of Team Cymru and the mission of Tor which consists of private and anonymous internet access for all. Rob Thomas's reasons for choosing to resign from the board are his own, but it has become more clear over the months since our initial conversation how Team…

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tor was taken over by the CIA a while ago when they purged the old hacker board for "inappropriate behavior towards women": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/jacob-app... You know, the same thing they did to Assange. I wonder how that's going. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/assa-j28.html >Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity Oh yeah. But hey, we might h…

Maybe if those two guys had kept their dicks in their pants and not gone around molesting and raping as if they were somehow immune to any consequences, they'd not have got in any trouble for it. Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned.

>Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned.

>>Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, a convicted criminal from Iceland, has admitted that the main allegations he made against Julian Assange, which form a central component of the US indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, were lies proffered in exchange for immunity from American prosecution.

I guess clicking was too hard.

It literally was a government conspiracy. If that hadn't worked they would have planted some child porn on both of them. And if that didn't they'd have done an Epstein.

It is always hilarious seeing people with a Che shirt defending the CIA.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe if those two guys had kept their dicks in their pants and not gone around molesting and raping as if they were somehow immune to any consequences, they'd not have got in any trouble for it. Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned.

>Not everything is a shadowy government conspiracy. Most often, people behave despicably just by themselves. Particularly the arrogant, domineering egotists - such as the two you mentioned. >>Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, a convicted criminal from Iceland, has admitted that the main allegations he made against Julian Assange, which form a central component of the US indictment against the WikiLeaks founder, were lies…

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#28

Team Cymru (the company the article is about) has a response to the coverage: https://www.team-cymru.com/post/team-cymru-myth-vs-fact In short, they claim that: - The "PCAP" data, email addresses, etc that they sell comes from them running malware samples on their own infrastructure. It's not based on captured Internet data. - The web page addresses etc that they sell are the results of automated vulnerability scans…

Wouldn't captured netflow data show which tor nodes users were connected to?

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#29

If you are using Tor, seriously ask yourself if it's a good idea to install software that was developed by DARPA and has never solved the exit node problem.

I have really bad news: the internet was formulated by the government. But seriously, the exit node issue is a real sore thumb.

How would you solve the various exit node issues? If anyone can run an exit node, it's bound to be as trustworthy as the "anyone" that runs it. Plus once your traffic is out of the onion-routed network, it's open to all the usual attacks on the public internet. I2P tries not to deal with non-I2P traffic at all because the problem is so difficult.

Re: Tor Project Board Member is CEO of Company Selling Capability for Attribution

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post #28

Team Cymru (the company the article is about) has a response to the coverage: https://www.team-cymru.com/post/team-cymru-myth-vs-fact In short, they claim that: - The "PCAP" data, email addresses, etc that they sell comes from them running malware samples on their own infrastructure. It's not based on captured Internet data. - The web page addresses etc that they sell are the results of automated vulnerability scans…

Wouldn't captured netflow data show which tor nodes users were connected to?

Only entry guards which isn't secret info. You will need to get very lucky to correlate that with relay traffic with the guard. Even with decent 1:10 sampling I would say it us only a little better than a random guess at best.
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