@JessTheUnstill @torproject Which reminds me to ask: is there a way of attacking TOR whereby a popular web server owner also owns a bunch of compromised TOR nodes, then blocks incoming connections to their web server from all the uncompromised TOR exit nodes they can identify, forcing users who want to connect to their web server to switch circuits until they're using a compromised exit node? Repeat for middle-exit and guard-middle connections.
@only_ohm, you bet, a lot of improvements have been implemented in the meanwhile: the article is more than a decade old :)
In particular (relevant for our discussion), now the client picks 2 guards and sticks with them.
@JessTheUnstill Word!
Also, anyone of us can become in that NEED anytime very much unexpectedly. So better be prepared beforehand. It's not that hard really. Simply start using the good tech.
Tor's good for reading Wikipedia but I find it a shame that you can't also contribute to articles using Tor
https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia
According to a recently published research paper co-authored by researchers from Drexel, NYU, and the University of Washington, Tor users make high-quality contributions to Wikipedia. And, when they are blocked, as doctoral candidate Chau Tran, the lead author describes, "the collateral damage in the form of unrealized valuable contributions from anonymity seekers is invisible."
@JessTheUnstill I made most people who talk to me on a regular basis use Signal. Unfortunately kept WhatsApp and iMessage for ones who ai only meet on occasion. Overall though, I'm more concerned with the algorithm knowing my day to day conversations and thoughts and habits than just the meeting time at a pub on a Saturday.
The latter is stuff obtainable about me through some other way anyway. The former is a detailed list of who I truly am
@Maxfieldripken @JessTheUnstill The biggest of them all... the incoming co-president.
@JessTheUnstill @catsalad I moved to Signal several years ago and I did think of this: I have nothing to hide (that I know of) but wondered would using Signal raise my profile among whomever it is does the snooping.
Yes, everyone should move to Signal please.
I used to also do this with tor, but I got fed up with the lag and with cloudflare making me fill out captchas all the time.
SIgnal needs to link devices like android tablets. (not just iPad)
It should have a webapp portal like WA (it used to have this).
And it should be made available outside of Playstore.
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