Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.
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It was invented by the US Navy.
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The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
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We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
Let me spell it out for you. Trump has removed our cyber defenses and now he's defunding FOSS projects like Tor and Let's Encrypt!…
Now Trump wouldn't know a FOSS project from a hole in the ground but do you know who does? What world leader who has an entire cyber attack force on his payroll and wants to remove any barriers in finding dissidents who are probably using Tor to coordinate and hide from them?
Do the math. If the government funding of these projects is allowed to be removed it's gonna be a whole new ballgame on the internet and the only ones to reap the benefits are the dictators.
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HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
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Cut off .gov domains
.gov is using let's encrypt? That's pathetic.
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they have more sponsors and won't go broke because of this
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the enemy is both weak and strong
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HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
As far as Let's Encrypt goes, the easy way to solve that is self-signed SSL certificates and Tofu. Just make it stupid obvious if an SSL certificate changes on a site that you go to. Like, turn your browser into a giant red screen that says that the security of the website has changed and may be broken obvious. Maybe you could have search engines also index SSL certificates so you could see if Google and Bing and DuckDuckGo and whoever else all say that this website has the same SSL certificate that it has had for X amount of time and if the search engines start showing different results you get suspicious
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... Except not using it would be less secure, so I'm not sure I'm following..
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
Well, tbh. If its my last time being president, I would also burn everything to show how the country sucks an is irrepairable.
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I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
More exactly by Defense and secret services
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http://longeepsiteaddress.i2p. Bonus points for having an option for a human-readable domain as well.
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... Except not using it would be less secure, so I'm not sure I'm following..
Don't confuse TOR with security, you can get exposed to use the Onion without an additional encrytion layer or VPN. TOR cannot encrypt the traffic between an exit relay and the destination server.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
the guy is literally a political front for techbros, it's not like he would do something else.
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http://longeepsiteaddress.i2p. Bonus points for having an option for a human-readable domain as well.
But i2p doesnt have PoW DDOS protection. Trust me, that shit helps a fuckton for limiting ddos. I witnessed firsthand nine onion services that upgraded from not having DDOS protection to having DDOS protection while under attack and the attack completely stopped.
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Don't confuse TOR with security, you can get exposed to use the Onion without an additional encrytion layer or VPN. TOR cannot encrypt the traffic between an exit relay and the destination server.
Sure, like any security it operates in layers
Totally disagree that Tor does not address security. The loophole you mention is indeed well known, but again it's an exploit like anything
And like any security thing, you stack a few layers to get the real world security
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
Wait you guys were getting paid to work on open source?
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the guy is literally a political front for techbros, it's not like he would do something else.
Those mf build their empires on the back of open source.
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Sure, like any security it operates in layers
Totally disagree that Tor does not address security. The loophole you mention is indeed well known, but again it's an exploit like anything
And like any security thing, you stack a few layers to get the real world security
The TOR network is certainly pretty secure, but it's always advisible to use it in the Onion not without an additional layer, at least with a good VPN. Anyway I think that the future is in a descentralized web (I2P, Hyphanet, Snowflake, Shadowsocks and similar), the normal Internet is to heavy controlled by big companies and govs.
