/tech/ - Technology

why the fuck are my (you)s still there while using Tor browser after clearing all site data and refreshing the Tor circuit?

>>26446
>Do the updates to the Tor protocols mentioned actually address the problem?
It seems like the vanguards thing should make it a lot harder for feds to pull off, but it doesn't "fix" it. Though with privacy this is usually the best you get, a lot is just stacking odds in your favor so much that it is effectively safe. Same with cryptograhy. That said, a real fix could be a random delay added every hop, and maybe packet padding if this is the type of timing attack they pulled off.

Steps they could have taken to mitigate vulnerability: (first of all - it's hard to tell if they got deanonymized via the server, as a server admin or smth, or as a user?) 1. not connect directly to the Tor network, connect to a proxy/VPN (that you own and run, and set up anonymously, and which you use for other activities as well; e.g. route all traffic on a multi-use device thru VPN) first. 2. control the first tier of guard nodes (as hidden service), set them up anonymously and everything, in a country not friendly to your gov. This isn't a 100% fix but the article mentions coercing the guard node owner… if it's you then just pack it up at that point and they have nothing. 3. not showing online status on the fucking app lol, it seems like that might be what really got them in the end

Downsides to these mitigations: 1. they could have the company that owns the server your proxy runs on snitch on connections and de-anonymize you (just the fact that you connected to a Tor node and when), or they could attempt to hack it and take it over even. 2. Again they could just ask the company to monitor the servers and snitch on you. Putting it in an unfriendly country might remove some of LE power, and you owning the server means they would have to escalate beyond just asking nicely and would give you a heads up potentially, but this isn't a total fix. 3. They still had to find the guy's IP first. They could have attempted escalating to other methods to correlate that he was the one posting, when and where. But it would deprive them of an easy thing to bring to the courts.

Overall, Tor isn't suited for use against an imperialist state actor. It's security thru obscurity, plus encryption. Vast majority of nodes are in 14 eyes. Nym net is a cool project trying to fix that (read the Sphynx protocol white paper it's really cool,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>26513
>a network of crypto entrepreneurs
What are you talking about lmao

>>27489
Because closing a windows is not the same as closing the browser itself.
You can also see what happens if you increase the security parameters and eventually even use a bridge (no big change). With the tor address you'll share the same id as with other torposters. Assuming there are enough torposters then that should cover some of your activity but not your writing style for example or when you posted. Good AIs could safely build statistical profiles.
>>28155
> in a country not friendly to your gov.
It was getting a bit more complicated but since the latest recent events in the middle east there are few countries and nodes that have popped up on the network that I wouldn't usually spot and they go as far as Antarctica. But will that be enough? Countries spy on their own populations by requiring intel from other nations so that way they can circumvent the entire moral issue of domestic spying.

dyson spheres are so stupid

>oh this star has 10 gajillion gajillion watts
>ok how do we access it
>put solar panels around the surface where the energy is the least and the slowest rate

just like blow up the star or something or throw something in there

>>27447
We have no idea how we could harvest energy directly from the star though

>>27448
I guess if you're going to have the technology to build a dyson sphere your efforts would be better off spent trying to perfect nuclear fusion

>>27448
put the star in a lake and then use the steam to move a turbine fan connected to an alternator

>>27455
You have obviously not thought about clogging caused by dead fish. Meanwhile placing the star above a glacier and moving it oten enough so that the ice can renew itself every 23K years makes far more sense.

Further relevant information below.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160104080031.htm

>>28413
buy a CRT

>get a higher reasolution monitor
>now everything is slower
Just toaster things.

>mod laptop to have a screen with higher resolution
>battery lasts a lot less now
cool

>*blames the tool*
maybe git gud instead of blaming the screen monitor blame your inability of adapting
or see it as a sign and give your eyes a holiday from the constant stream of fake circadian manipulative abuse watching autogenerated slop like your peers here do

>>28460
>give your eyes a holiday from the constant stream of fake circadian manipulative abuse
Backlit screens should have never existed. See >>28239.

>>28454
Don't worry it's only a matter of time before AI rapes us all into hivemind.

>>28455
i can't wait!

kek anon thought this place is a volatile venue for discussions
probably shoulda posted this to 4cuck althoughbeit

>>28339
What about books with complex figures, or even something like a world atlas? The other thing I miss with ereaders is being able to quickly flip through. But I agree that they are awesome.

>>28402
barbarian!

>>28407
>The other thing I miss with ereaders is being able to quickly flip through.
Technically it would be possible with a touchscreen slider or a scroll wheel.

>>28408
What do you think books are for? Sitting on your shelf to make you look more intellectual? They are consumable. Mark them up, lend them out.

>>28398
>entire occult-fascist accelerationist coup that's been undertaken by Musk and Thiel.
Assuming what your saying about technofascists psyopping imageboards is real I bet the wave of Nick Land posting on /lit/ was related to it.

>>28400
>>28399
Just read it and you tell me if you think it's true

>>28401
I read it bro, your cooking (or at least I think you are some of that shit def went over my head). I at least think the thesis is wikileaks, Qanon and anonymous are all fedded the fuck out and part of some broader right wing accelerationist(as in like Nick Land cyber occult shit not atomwaffen shit) political program. Had no idea there was that much continuity between new age cults and internet shit either. Like Etika was in the Venus project??? Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like the function of this new religion your talking about is to essentially create mass psychosis to the benefit of the ruling class? Like we start with how the original 20th century fash were into occult and supernatural shit and as Lukacs pointed out opposed to reason,empiricism,materialism and the like so instead they focus on feels over reals or generating mass psychosis among the populace(like isteal today). Fast foward to later in the 20th century and american feds are doing shit like MKultra and getting involved with cults like the founders, manson family, larouchites and others and now we got the internet psyops your discussing. Seems to me like the end goal is to essentially create a new religion that gets people to dissociated from material reality that something materialist analysis of the world around them or solidarity with there peers is greatly weakend if not out of the question.

>>28405
yep that's about exactly right. In particular, the materialist vs. imaginary/idealist thing becomes incredibly explicit when you find these people creating things like imaginary governments in their cults.

And a lot of these people are influenced by the "Law of One" new-age ideology where it's all about ascending to a state of total one-ness and leaving the world of "dualism" behind, which you can read very directly as wanting to escape the world of material contradictions into an imaginary world where all conflict is already solved (which I see as synonymous with the Marxist "ideology" or maybe also something like "the afterlife", and which means death in this world, which makes sense as these are really death cults).

But there's more than just those people involved in it. There are some with more traditional political motivations, who are just using the others. But at least that side of it that you bring up was a big deal for me in trying to analyse and tie it all together.

And I'm not really saying Wikileaks is a cult or Assange is an MKULTRA victim, in such simple terms. A whole bunch of stuff Wikileaks did was good and you can't criticize it. But looking at how it all ended up… well, the reason it ended that way has roots going back to the beginning and whatever influenced Assange to choose this particular method for "revolution". And you can see the signs of those influences all through the story.

Happy you liked it

>>28405
>Etika
I only noticed his connection recently, but it does look like what happened to him is the same thing that happened to Isaac Kappy, Tracy Twyman and others, and that the same people are responsible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtikaRedditNetwork/comments/cl8bp8/what_happened_to_eyeseaaycem_ates/

The way this guy is talking, "life is a game" and posting occult content mixed with Anonymous imagery, is very indicative. This then reinforces the connections between the Venus Project and the developments in the early 2010s.

- Jacque Fresco, the guy behind the Venus Project, was involved with "Technocracy, Inc" in the 30s, the same organization Elon Musk's grandfather was in and which mainstream sources have already cited as an influence on Musk.
- Venus Project has "What Is The Plan?" on their website in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100627105441/http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project-introduction/faq.
- This appears to influence the site whatis-theplan.org where Project Mayhem 2012 would occur and where several users also discussed the Venus Project (see screenshot).
- "The Plan", which also seems to be present in the original Chanology thread on /b/ from 2008, is adapted in several ways by internet cults through the years and is ultimately the source of "The Plan" in QAnon.
- Allatra Creative Society cult also seems to adapt "The Plan" on their site.

No, I'm not imagining the connections, they're all the same "Plan" meme. There is no actual plan described, it's just a shibboleth / meme device they find useful for some reason.
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>>28385
I was talking about the workers

>>28387
yeah thats what anarchists believe while theyre busy larping as mr robot and burning down trash cans

>>28381
from my understanding strikes usually involve public picket lines while activists might need one for adventurism purposes.

>>28358
It says a lot about Trump if he surrounds himself with people like Zuckerberg. The lolberts who cheered for him becoming president are going to regret this soon, no matter how many SJW compilations it has produced.

>>28360
the market was being kept afloat at the end of trump's last term by tech companies, and this time around his biggest backers are tech hypebros like musk and now those who have jumped ship like gates/openai angling for $500 billion and zuckerberg.

he is being fed the narrative of AI is teh new nuclear tech and we need full govt backing to make america great again with AI tech over china and everyone else, and he is going to buy it wholesale and sell everything to the tech guys because that's what he likes to hear. captains of industry driving america to greatness just like the good old days.

>Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
evangelical christian technopriesthood by 2050

>>28186
it was always the case
normies were told repeatedly to not put their personal shit online, not centralize around internet media run by corps, keep using decentralized protocols like email, self-hosted chat servers, etc instead of all signing up with facebook and google and they said we were being weird nerds. now they're crying about all their data being taken and sold back to them as ads and AI slop.
all of it is thoroughly deserved by every normie. they worked hard to willingly hand over all of there for a few clicks on heart icons. fuck them.

There's really not much to say/vlog about other than get off social media, encrypt your system and self-host where possible

>>28183
is now a vtuber called mii beta i think

>>28210
>@
what happened to /user/?