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Not that I want to take this thread further off topic than it already is starting to go, but I feel as if I should weigh in my opinion regarding the last two posts. First of all, I do not think that rape pornography causes people to desire to rape. People who are not sexually aroused by the thought of rape are going to find rape pornography extremely disgusting, people who are aroused by the thought of rape are going to find rape pornography arousing. My opinions on rape pornography are pretty much the same as they are on child pornography, both are sought out because of an already existing desire and neither cause new desires. In the case of child pornography, numerous studies have shown that its availability negatively correlates with the prevalence of child molestation. Other studies show that the availability of abusive pornography has a negative correlative relationship with sexual abuse. I do not at all think it is an honest analogy to compare rape pornography : rape with firing a shotgun at someone point blank : murder. Firing a shotgun at someone point blank has a clear causative link to murder, there is a negative correlative relationship between the availability of rape pornography and sexual assault. 

Second I agree that there is a clear distinction between fantasy and reality. Studies have shown that > 1/3rd of males have fantasized about raping someone and additionally the fantasy of being raped is quite common for females. If your claim that fantasy is evidence of intention was true it would mean that a large percentage of females have the desire to be forced to engage in sexual intercourse without their consent and against their will. Just food for thought. There is also ample evidence that a desire to rape has been genetically encoded into large percentages of males, even more than 1/3rd. It is called the evolutionary theory for rape and I believe it is the theory that makes by far the most sense, although it is quite controversial due to its implications. Essentially, for most of human existence rapists were very difficult to catch, and mothers life preserving abortions and contraceptives were unheard of. This meant that rapists produced far more offspring than non-rapists. The implication of this is that if there is any genetic component that predisposes someone to desire rape, it is going to be a very common gene. Of course, as the proponents of the evolutionary theory of rape (ie: scientists) are quick to point out, this does not excuse rape at all. Humans are intelligent and self controlling beings, not slaves to their primal desires. 

Third of all, you act as if someones viewing of images is equal to perpetrating the acts they see in those images. This is extremely nonsensical. The poster you reply to has said that he does not think images of rape should be illegal, not that he thinks it should be legal for him to rape whoever he wants. Additionally you claim that you don't watch rape unless you want to do that yourself, however a substantial percentage of the market for rape fantasy pornography consists of females, whom as I already mentioned quite commonly fantasize about being raped. I do agree though that a person who fantasizes about rape is statistically much more likely to rape someone than a person who does not have such fantasies, after all a great many rapists fantasize about rape prior to actually raping anyone. However taking this claim at face value is misleading yourself, someone who has been sexually abused is statistically far more likely to sexually abuse another person than someone who has not been sexually abused is, however only a minority of those who have been sexually abused go on to sexually abuse others.

I agree with you entirely that it is absolutely not okay for anyone to force another person to have sex with them against their will. However I see that you are blurring two entirely different issues together into one issue: rape fantasy and actual rape. This is most likely some emotional response and it is not doing you any good actually. I see that people do the same exact thing when it comes to child pornography actually, they equate child pornography possession as being the same thing as child molestation for some reason. To a rational mind there is a clear difference between these things though. 

I still can't get over the prevalence of the use of the word, "bro", how everyone's avatar is that person shirtless, and how absolutely nobody there knows what theyre talking about.

Plus half of the threads are about jailbait

I never argued in favor of Torchat I am actually quite against it . Currently all end user implementations of DH with forward secrecy that I am aware of require both users to be on at the same time, however this is not an underlying requirement of the system it is merely how it has been implemented so far. The same exact thing can be done with RSA, you just exchange a brand new keypair with every person you communicate with, and you delete it after each message, and with each message you send a new public key for the next message to be encrypted to. It really isn't anything to do with DH or RSA, it is just the DH cryptosystems I have seen tend to go towards this approach and the RSA implementations I have seen tend to go towards long term keys. Of course an end user actually juggling so many keys is pretty much impossible, systems like this need to be built right into the software like with OTR. Right now there is a system being developed that is similar to Mixminion but more secure from long term intersection attacks, fully internal without any reliance on E-mail addresses, with encryption like OTR built into it and supporting group communications. It will be pretty interesting I think.

The primary thing to note is that with long term keys (the way RSA is generally used, ie: with GPG the way it is usually used) if Alice has her private key compromised, all intercepted ciphertexts ever sent to her that were encrypted with that private keys corresponding public key can be decrypted. The way that (DH / ECDH) is usually used (ie: Tor, OTR), intercepted ciphertexts become impossible to decrypt with traditional (non-quantum) computing power as soon as the private keys are erased, which happens every time a new message is sent.

Yeah I would worry a lot more about a direct attack on Tor than this. But better to protect from as much as possible.

AHH second time I try and make this fucking post I hope it sticks this time (copy to clipboard this time at least):

Indeed there are several ways in which you can minimize the risk of this sort of attack. Clearly not carrying a cellphone with you is a good idea, additionally you can use Tor bridges. However, there are still some potential things to keep in mind. One thing is that some cities have license plate geopositioning technology that is nearly as accurate as cellphone geopositioning. Additionally there is always the risk that simply moving in a random fashion could be enough to flag you as a suspect. I imagine that very few people move in a truly random fashion. Of course there are taxi drivers and delivery people, however they can likely be filtered out to a large extent as their movement patterns fall inline with those you would expect of someone who holds such an occupation, they will not be the same movement patterns that a vendor who drops of packs at random boxes will have. This presents a sort of catch-22, on the one hand you may make yourself more vulnerable to geopositioning intelligence flagging you for moving randomly, on the other hand you will certainly make yourself weaker to traditional surveillance if you always follow the same schedule and use the same set of drop boxes for sending outgoing packages. I am inclined to believe that given a choice between the two, it is better for you to make yourself weaker to being flagged for moving randomly than it is to make yourself weaker to traditional surveillance by always sending from the same small set of boxes in a set schedule.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the sort of attack discussed does not entirely rely on cellphone geopositioning data or even on license plate geopositioning data. It relies on geopositioning data in general , without regard to how that data was gathered. For example imagine an assassin, a hitman for hire. One month he kills someone in Alicesville, the next month someone in Bobsville and the next someone Carolsville. For the most part he is secure, except while he is in each city he uses his credit card to purchase a cup of coffee. Now law enforcement with access to financial transaction data can intersect the sets of credit cards identified as used in these cities, and they will see that some number of credit cards were used in all three cities. They will additionally be able to see that some of the credit cards were used in the three cities in the same order that the assassinations were carried out. Depending on the closeness of the cities and how cross contaminated the set size of credit cards used in them is, this attack could very well be enough for them to narrow in to only one person; the assassin. Another possibility is that the assassin has paid for an airplane ticket to each of the three cities in which the hits were carried out. The fundamental attack here is an intersection attack. Intersection attacks can take crowds that by themselves are essentially meaningless and then filter the noise away, leaving only the most likely targets. The list of credit cards used in Alicesville is not going to by itself help the investigators identify their target, the list contains credit cards belonging to far more people than their targeted assassin. However, as soon as they intersect that list with the list of credit cards used in Bobsville, they will filter away an enormous amount of that noise. Normally it doesn't take very many intersections before a target is identified.

This sort of crowd intersecting attack is one of the fundamental methods used in a large amount of intelligence and investigatory work. Another fundamental attack is a correlation attack, whether it involves a correlation between the timing characteristics of packets at two points on an encrypted tunnel or a correlation between tire marks left in the mud at a murder scene and the tires on a suspects vehicle.

Sorry, I wrote this out a bit nicer the first two times, but now I am sick of writing this large post out and just pounded it out from memory the best I could.

We have no moral reason to not assassinate LE. We have no obligation to allow ourselves to be subjected to the unjust rules of a brainwashed society. It is quite apparent that those who are in favor of drug laws are either brainwashed or slave traders. It is okay for us to have pity on those who are brainwashed, but it is wrong for us to suffer for their mental weakness. Slave traders deserve to die. Look at the people who are most in favor of continuing the war on drugs, police, 'addiction specialists', people in the prison industry, people at drug testing companies, etc. Of course they give as many reasons as they can for why they would like to continue the war on drugs, always they say that their goal is to help people. But it only takes the smallest amount of common sense to see that their goal is to make a profit. Their goal is to make a profit off of our unjust imprisonment and this is nothing other than slavery. These people do not deserve to live and if killing them is in any way beneficial to us then they should be killed. Maybe people just need to see that they have a choice, they can let us be free or they can live in a war zone. They already live in a war zone but the only people who are feeling that in a significant way are us. The people who are dying preventable deaths from impure drugs and drugs like PMA marketed as MDMA? They are casualties to the chemical warfare of the DEA. The people dying in prisons for drug charges are nothing other than slaves, people whose lives have been sacrificed so some fucking DEA agent can have a job. The people getting HIV from dirty needles are the victims of biological warfare. It is unconventional warfare against us and slavery against us, only extreme pacifists could wish anything on them other than the same exact death and misery they dish out onto us. Fuck them, as long as they want to kill us let them be killed.