Several years ago I had Tor running on a server at home. It was a regular Tor node, not an exit node. Later I was put on a blacklist because of this. What is the risk of using this?
ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
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#72Several years ago I had Tor running on a server at home. It was a regular Tor node, not an exit node. Later I was put on a blacklist because of this. What is the risk of using this?
Would you mind defining "blacklist" in this context? That's kind of scary!
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#73> Anonymity: Full Tor network support with .onion hidden services instead of ipv4 addresses How does this track with the Tor Project's advice to avoid using BitTorrent over Tor [1]? I can imagine that a savvy project is developed with awareness of what the problems are and works around them, but I don't see it addressed. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...
I'm also suspicious, since they say that your blockchain address is used for authentication - couldn't colluding websites track your public key and use it to track you between websites?
Seems like that's only for publishing new content, not for merely browsing.
Though I guess unless you create a new identity for every site you want to post a comment on, your comments on one site could be proven to be posted by the same person as your comments on another site.
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#74Lack of anonymity in ZeroNet is a big problem.
Seems like it's just as anonymous as the existing web; you can use Tor to hide your IP, but that's optional.
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#75> Page response time is not limited by your connection speed. Huh? What do they mean?
I assumed they meant offline browsing of cached content
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been tested for Freenet. LEA adversaries can participate, and identify peers. Judges issue subpoenas. Many defendants have accepted plea bargains. Plausible deniability doesn't work. What works is using Tor.
Even Tor isn't a magic bullet, specifically because of other technologies used in combination, such as a web browser. https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...
Yes, the FBI exploited a Firefox vulnerability to drop NIT malware on Playpen users. And said malware phoned home to FBI servers, bypassing Tor.
However, any Whonix users would not have been affected, for two reasons. One, this was Windows malware, and Whonix is based on Debian. Two, Whonix comprises a pair of Debian VMs, a Tor-gateway VM and a workstation VM. Even if the malware had pwned the workstation VM, there is no route to the Internet except through Tor.
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#78I don't see how this could decentralize web applications though. Wouldn't each client have to be running the server software? Someone has to pay for that, too.
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#79> Anonymity: Full Tor network support with .onion hidden services instead of ipv4 addresses How does this track with the Tor Project's advice to avoid using BitTorrent over Tor [1]? I can imagine that a savvy project is developed with awareness of what the problems are and works around them, but I don't see it addressed. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...
Tor Project doesn't like people pushing HD video through its relays, because that degrades performance for other users. Torrent clients are very good at saturating links.
This project is about hosting generally. But if it were used for HD video streaming, Tor Project would be just as unhappy.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's called Subresource Integrity, see https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-f... and https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/ Browser support is noted here: http://caniuse.com/#feat=subresource-integrity
It's kind of a shame they didn't let their imagination fly with that one... I wish integrity were a global attribute, because I could totally see using it for things like images and audio/video.
And then any site could check whether you've seen a particular image before just by including it and seeing how long it takes to load, yay!