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Security / Re: how to open pdf files and remain anonymous (re canada post)
« on: June 28, 2013, 09:51 pm »
Quote from: Ro-Jaws on June 28, 2013, 07:16 pm
Is it possible for a malicious piece of software to get out of a VM? I'm not really sure how a VM interacts with the host OS but its something that has always slightly bothered me about VMs (thought not enough to actually stop me using one!).

Theoretically yes, but I've never read about a case of it happening. If someone has references, that would be great.

It's probably much safer than opening an untrusted binary in Tails, where things like privilege escalation exploits are much more common and widely known.

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Security / Re: Obfproxy help
« on: June 28, 2013, 09:10 pm »
Thanks Lib.

Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the OPs. kmf might.

As for the threads, one of them was about phone security and mentioned I2P. If that's in your trash bin and you can search it, that should be easy to find.

One of them had NSA in the title and mentioned quantum computing, which would also be easy to search for.

Let me see if I can get kmf to help.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Why are so many threads being deleted without explanation?
« on: June 28, 2013, 08:22 pm »
Edit: Nevermind. OP just couldn't find his thread.

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Security / Re: Obfproxy help
« on: June 28, 2013, 08:12 pm »
That thread disappeared too? What the fuck is going on?

Were any of the other threads that you started deleted?

Anyway, you will see 3 relays in the panel that says Connection and Status at the top, but when you click on one of the lines in that panel (which represents a circuit), you should see more detailed info in the panel to the right. You should only see info about 2 relays there, because there is no public info to display about bridges.

If you see detailed info for 3 relays, you are probably not using bridges. You can also confirm by going to http://torstatus.blutmagie.de and ctrl+f searching for the name of the first relay. If it appears in that list, it's a public relay, not a bridge.


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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: To catch a predator
« on: June 28, 2013, 06:13 pm »
Quote from: kmfkewm on June 28, 2013, 04:15 am
Consent, by definition, is voluntary. Additionally, billionaires have more power over poor people than poor people have over billionaires. I take it that we should break apart consensual abilities based on gross income as well? Strong people have more power over weak people, and most men are stronger than most females, so maybe our species should die out. What about politicians, they have more power than the average person, should they also be restricted to having sex only with other politicians? There are power discrepancies all over the place, saying that power discrepancy is the basis of why 16 year olds can sleep with 20 year olds, but 14 year olds cannot, is essentially saying that we need a much, much, much more complex consent system.

Rich people, politicians, rock stars can certainly take advantage of their power to exploit people, but the vast majority of people fucking them want to do it. I mean, who doesn't want to fuck someone famous?

I simply doubt that the vast majority of 14 year olds fucking 30 year olds are doing so because they want to. I believe the vast majority of those cases are exploitative.

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Security / Re: how to open pdf files and remain anonymous (re canada post)
« on: June 28, 2013, 06:05 pm »
I keep a set of clean VirtualBox appliances as disposable VMs for testing purposes. When that malware site was mass messaged to people, I was able to test out the malware in a disposable WinXP VM. You can use them to open PDFs too.

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Off topic / Re: Atlantis launches a commercial
« on: June 28, 2013, 04:10 pm »
Quote from: samesamebutdifferent on June 28, 2013, 05:46 am
If we allow ourselves to get cocky, arrogant and complacent you watch how quickly they will mobilize to shut this down

Wasn't SR described by some senator as "the most brazen attempt to peddle drugs by light years"? ;)

Compared to the secret, invite-only forums of the previous decade, creating an open registration drug market was considered cocky as fuck, so we're already there.

The only way to win the war on drugs is to normalize the drug trade. As long as it's a secret market, it will be a marginalized market.

So, I for one applaud Atlantis for making that commercial, and I await the day these commercials are on regular TV.


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Security / Re: Sellers and users security leaks! Posting links outside .onion
« on: June 28, 2013, 03:52 pm »
Clearnet sites are not less safe than onion sites -- as long as you are accessing them over Tor.

The real problem is that a lot of people have a bad habit of copying clearnet links that they find in onionland into a regular browser. There seems to be a persistent myth, especially in this community, that Tor is only for onion sites. That's not true. It was created for the purpose of providing anonymous access to the regular internet (ie clearnet). The hidden service protocol is an experimental "proof of concept", as the Tor developers themselves have described it, but not the main purpose of Tor.

tl;dr If you find a link over Tor, you should only visit it over Tor.

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Security / Re: Warning: Don't use Tor and BitTorrent together
« on: June 28, 2013, 01:33 pm »
Yep, Tor only carries TCP traffic and the tracker queries are usually UDP, so bittorrent programs either fail or silently bypass Tor so as not to break the experience. They also send your IP address in their data.

But the biggest reason not to use bittorrent over Tor is that it taxes the network. 3% of Tor users are using bittorrent, but they account for something like 40% of the traffic.

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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: To catch a predator
« on: June 28, 2013, 03:45 am »
Quote from: kmfkewm on June 28, 2013, 01:35 am
The issue boils down entirely to consent, and if a 14 year old can consent to sleep with a 14 year old then a 14 year old can consent to sleep with a 30 year old.

You can be capable of giving consent without giving voluntary consent, as demonstrated by the boss-employee example, which is the issue that large age differences raise, especially between adults and non-adults, since adults have more power over non-adults.


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There is a huge power differential between a billionaire adult male and a poor adult female, should we forbid them from sleeping together as well?

In the spectrum from intimidation to fear to terror, at some point it does become rape.


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Off topic / Re: Just thinking out loud..
« on: June 28, 2013, 01:53 am »
eBay did this years ago but stopped because sellers would coerce buyers into leaving good reviews by threatening to lower their ratings of the buyers.

It sounds like a good idea, but in practice it would be abused.

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Philosophy, Economics and Justice / Re: To catch a predator
« on: June 28, 2013, 01:25 am »
I think there is a point here that both of you are missing. For the same reason that a boss shouldn't sleep with his employee and a teacher with his student, there is a power differential between an adult and an adolescent, even someone 14 or 15 years old, that calls into question whether they truly consent, even if they are capable of doing so.

In many places, the law takes this into account. It's legal for two underage people to have sex, as long as they are not more than 2 years apart in age, for example. So a 15 year old and a 17 year old can have sex, but a 15 year old and a 24 hear old can't. That makes sense to me.

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Security / Re: Time to update TOR again my friends!
« on: June 27, 2013, 11:40 pm »
And the onion icon stopped blinking.

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Off topic / Re: Atlantis launches a commercial
« on: June 27, 2013, 11:20 pm »
Quote from: Burning Babylon on June 27, 2013, 03:43 pm
the commercial itself had some major flaws, the main one being linking their TOR address without explaining what TOR itself is. I would reckon something like 95% of the people who saw the commercial who weren't aware of TOR beforehand won't research it in detail

They give instructions on how to download TBB and access the site in the video description, which is a better place to put it than in the video, since people can copy-paste the address.

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Security / Re: Is LUKS encryption strong enough?
« on: June 27, 2013, 11:13 pm »
LUKS is the key management system (Linux Unified Key Setup). dm-crypt does the actual encryption, and it can use different ciphers. Tails uses AES 256 which is very strong. In comparison, Tor circuits use AES 128.

As always, the encryption is only as good as your password.

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