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Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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post #11

7TB of compressed text? I don't think humanity has generated that much written words in it's entire existence. Although it would be an interesting Fermi Problem to estimate (and don't forget just how well text compresses). This has to be a lot of duplicates or bad formats (images). This would be far more useful to people with some curating.

These are most likely PDFs, not plaintext.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still know which sites you visit even with https.

only the destination IP. TLS encryption is inside tcp and around the http protocol.

And, unless you setup an appropriate DNS server and the default from your ISP, then they also know that you looked up the site's hostname(s).

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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post #11

7TB of compressed text? I don't think humanity has generated that much written words in it's entire existence. Although it would be an interesting Fermi Problem to estimate (and don't forget just how well text compresses). This has to be a lot of duplicates or bad formats (images). This would be far more useful to people with some curating.

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Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

only the destination IP. TLS encryption is inside tcp and around the http protocol.

Until ESNI becomes mainstream (and browsers offer the ability to enforce it), the domain name is also sent out in plaintext.

ESNI has been dropped, a new spec alters how it works and renames it Encrypted client hello (ECH)

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/07/encrypted-clien...

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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post #7

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It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

The same thing you always get. Assurance that your free Wi-Fi hotspot isn’t tampering with the page.

This, and also MITM (like ISP) needs to make their own request to this site, to know what I read. And, technically, they cannot really be sure it's what I've read, since nothing says that this site is static.

I'm not that offended, and torrents are only available via TOR anyway, but I do actually appreciate the sentiment. There's no reason to be not using TLS.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until ESNI becomes mainstream (and browsers offer the ability to enforce it), the domain name is also sent out in plaintext.

ESNI has been dropped, a new spec alters how it works and renames it Encrypted client hello (ECH) https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/07/encrypted-clien...

ECH looks quite interesting, but isn't it quite easy to do a reverse DNS lookup for most domains?

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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I wonder if there are any search engines dedicated to indexing these kinds of libraries. I know there's a decent one just for scihub, but it would be awesome if I could do a Google-style search that returned the contents of books, magazines and journal articles instead of just websites.

Wasn't that what google books was supposed to be?

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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https won't keep your ISP from knowing you visited the site. And the rest of those? For a text-only blog, they seem kinda trivial.

> https won't keep your ISP from knowing you visited the site If you use DoH, yes it does. Unless I'm mistaken. They only know the IP address of the remote server.

and the SNI, until ECH is widely adopted, SNI is leaked in plaintext when connecting to a server, it needs to because how will the server know which TLS cert to reply with?

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

#40
post #30

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site. They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

*wary For some reason I'm seeing this mistake more and more lately. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weary vs https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wary

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