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French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi (vice.com)
Several readers sent word that French newspaper Le Monde got its hands on documents showing the French government is debating two new pieces of legislation that are unfriendly to internet users. The first would ban people from sharing Wi-Fi connections during a state of emergency. "This comes from a police opinion included in the document: the reason being that it is apparently difficult to track individuals who use public Wi-Fi networks." The second would forbid the use of Tor within France's borders. "The main problem with such a ban on Tor is that it wouldn't achieve a whole lot. Would-be terrorists could still access Tor from outside the country, and if they did manage to access Tor from within France I doubt they're concerned about being arrested for illegal use of the network."
They start arresting shopkeepers with open wifi. Magnifique.
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why attack your enemy when you can get them to attack themselves?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
you're also not very anonymous on tor. People that want to track you just run a lot of nodes and traffic analysis away.
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
Oh? Then why are people in China still able to use it? Maybe the authorities there are not trying hard to block it? Oh, wait....
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Stop spreading FUD. As far as is known there is one instance of people having done that, and it was both glaringly obvious in hindsight and is not a whole lot harder.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
That's exactly what ISIS told us was their strategy, and told us that they wanted us to do. Their public web sites and social media accounts have been quite clear that they want the west to make life worse for citizens and take away basic freedoms. That helps radicalise people to join their cause, and demonstrates that they are not some ineffectively little group by rather a powerful movement with the ability to influence and control western governments.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
behead their asses.
At first I was confused by this phase, but then I realized what you meant: they suffer from rectal-cranial impaction, so a beheading does indeed involve their ass.
Your point might have been valid 5 years ago, but now we have good pluggable transports.
If you want to block meek, you'll have to be blocking all of Google, Amazon and Microsoft's servers. If you want to block obfs4, you'll need a serious budget and more research. Good luck with that.
Yeah well, they can't be that dumb if they're winning elections. For 'dumb' you have to look elsewhere.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
rename Tor !
The Islamic Paris terrorists texted each other on a public network. One of the Islamic California terrorists pledged support to ISIS on Facebook.
If our national governments aren't bothering to watch the people who "like" ISIS's homepage or otherwise raise flags on themselves in public, why would we think any restrictions on encryption (that they won't watch either) would improve public safety?
It is not FUD. It has been shown in proper peer reviewed journals that you can do this. Claiming its FUD because you see no proof that anyone *is* doing it, is *not* how you do security. Do you really think the Feds are going to tell you.
Right now the tor network is just to small to hide in. There is not enough onion.
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
One attack and Liberté, égalité, fraternité goes out the window.
When you get the urge to shout that someone needs to do something in the wake of a tragedy. It's exactly what an oppressive government counts on - "never let a good crisis go to waste" is the oft quoted phrase.
Paris attacks? Ban encryption (which had nothing to do with it). San Bernadino attacks? "Common sense gun controls" (none of which would have helped, but all of which can be seen as either an end run around due process or another step towards total confiscation & disarmament of the law-abiding populace). Think of the children. Sex offender boogeymen on every street corner. "The great Satan" versus actual foreign policy introspection. http://brainz.org/10-most-evil-propaganda-techniques-used-nazis/
Shouldn't they behead the actual politicians instead of their donkeys?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
The sad-but-funny thing is, Romani are actually descendants of peoples from the North of India and part of current Pakistan who were displaced by the expansion of Islam and later by the growth of the Ottoman Empire. They're unrelated to Romanians and Bulgarians (and Polish and Italians and Greeks and Czech and Irish and Germans and.. and ...) as Roms, beyond the limited intermixing that happened while they traveled for centuries across Europe. Using them to claim that the Schengen Space has failed is a ridiculous lie as well as a wild anachronism.
But let's face the real issue here: Marine Le Pen's F.N. has successfully re-marketed itself as the new center of the french political landscape, and the reigning parties are only now getting the memo. Out of sheer laziness and panderism they've been casting themselves as merely reacting to each of Marine's sorties on every new topic, so she got to define everyone's position for years now. And the recent elections have just now given her all the weight she needs to make them dance any way she wishes. All of this, courtesy of both parites' strategy of popularizing the F.N. in the hopes of being the only alternative left against it. It's like Kodos and Kang playing less-and-lesser-evil to C'htuluh.
The F.N. has made Syrian refugees, unpatriotic (read: gov't-dissentive) behavior and Islam the topics du jour, so PS and LR have happily obliged, and bipartisanly passed State-of-emergency laws as well as broad mass-surveillance laws. Unemploy-what ? Who gives a rat's ass ? We'll only worry about the smoldering ruins of our economy when the moosleems are defeated, apparently.
But only after the current government is done building up the totalitarian state that the ex-far-right-and-now-center F.N. will need to implement its crazy policies.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
But to be honest, this is from the playbook written by Bin Laden (and still scrupulously followed by those in the West desirous of Absolute Powers). He knew that those holding offices requiring an oath to 'protect and defend The Constitution' were just mouthing words they truly didn't give a fuck about.
Seriously, stop lying and twisting the truth. The TOR network has countermeasures to it and it is large enough to make such an attack both hard and obvious. The question is not whether this is theoretically possible, the question is whether this is being done in practice.
And if you are unable to control your fears (as you seem to be), you are doing about the worst disservice to others by spreading them here.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Yes, the French authorities just need to watch for that first hop to onion routing and then back track to the ISP, provider, service in France.
Send out letters and a chat down about still trying to use that service.
Finding out who is using the service within a nation is not difficult. Reconciliation of information flowing at an international level in and out of France would need more funding ie a Tempora like effort to capture all the communications in and out of France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Once any nation gets all its telcos and providers inspecting for that first easy onion routing hop, its a difficult service to hide.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Re "but can be reprogrammed quickly enough to not make a lick of difference, so this will prove to be a costly game of whack a mole by the local police force, and be just as exhausting as the 'hunt for terrorists' are. This cost can be so extreme, it will QUICKLY deplete the financial resources of an organization attempting to keep the country 'safe'."
The problem with that is the type of investigation that has been opened. In some nations "security" investigations its not just that a person has to be proved guilty or is able find a good lawyer and has the legally usable funds to pay for legal advice.
That "guilty" person has to legally move from now been very guilty to try and prove their way back to been innocent. Every aspect of their life is investigated from that one internet reported issue.
Work, banking, telco, gov services, medical, family, friends, educational contacts all get chat downs and requests for more information and clarity. Select from a short list of government approved security cleared lawyers as your bank accounts are now frozen No finding a good lawyer who is media savvy to present a case to the wider public.
All from just using a computer network. In many nations the idea is to isolate the person very quickly, totally and then offer the only free, easy way out, as an informant.
Some nations just create vast numbers of informants every decade.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
You sir are an idiot! Read the GP.
The Grey Goo disaster happened 3 billion years ago. This rock is covered in self replicating machines!
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