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Onion Debian Services Are Now Available (debian.org)
"I just set up a lot of Onion Services for many of Debian's static websites," announced Debian sys-admin Peter "weasel" Palfrader on Friday. "You can find the entire list of services on onion.debian.org. More might come in the future." Longtime Slashdot reader alfino writes:
Yay for privacy. We don't care about where you come from, and now you don't even have to tell anyone that you're using Debian. The archive at ftp.debian.org is already in the list. Support for more redundant Debian archive access is expected to come When It's Ready.
that's great, but they STILL do not obfuscate email addresses on debian's bugtracker, and they've taken some heat over the years for it. i've had more than one email account flooded with spam so bad they've had to be abandoned because of that, and eventually just said 'fuck it' and i don't even bother anymore, it is just not worth it.
Usually, I get the Onion's satire but this time it alludes me.
I think the next time they should go after BSD or Windows.
In the meantime, I read some funny shit about the election.
Wait it, onion.systemd next.
"...because the thing that needs to know that sort of thing sits right on your computer. It's got PID number one, too."
I for one welcome our new advertising-integrating overlords.
TOR is no secure in the least anymore, why would you still use that garbage.
Yeah totally - and that Bruce Schnider just joined their board of directors too! What does HE know about SECURITY?? What a joke.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
I believe he joined the board to help guide Tor towards becoming a more secure project. If you read his blog you'll find he's documented serious deficiencies in Tor that allow three letter agencies to exploit it.
If you mean the Schneider from One Day at a Time, his first name was Dwayne, not Bruce.
And yes, he was a badass at security. Still hold's the Guinness record for quickest time changing out a Kwikset.
"...now you don't even have to tell anyone that you're using Debian."
Oh the shame, what would my neighbors say if they knew I was using Debian? They'd probably stop picketing the child molester's house down the street and come after me with torches and pitchforks.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"Yay for privacy. We don't care about where you come from, and now you don't even have to tell anyone that you're using Debian"
but systemd reports back to those who Do care!
So everyones a winner baby!
Ducking.....
Bruce Schneier's work on security is well known,, and respected, by much of the computer world. I was actually discussing a presentation Bruce did at Harvard years ago on how Kerberos works with one of the authors of Kerberos at a picnic yesterday, who affirmed the quality of Bruce's presentations.
Won't this put heavy load on the Tor network? People using this will almost surely be downloading binary packages, and that means that every time there's a new package update in the repos, the Tor network will take a massive hit as thousands of computers automatically pull the new packages.
When I run apt-get dist-upgrade right now, I get...just 22MiB to download. Yesterday it was 70MiB or so. Multiply that by thousands of users, daily, and this could severely limit the effectiveness of Tor for people who want to use it for /important/ reasons.
How to download TOR without everyone knowing that you downloaded it? Crap.
But he uses Windows.
Why?
As I have stated many many times on Slashdot for months, no shit Debian will be on TOR. You can find 2 things very easily on TOR right now:
1) Debian full distro
2) Tails (latest) distro
Why? Both compromised.
Use any TOR that you don't know what you are doing and you can be snooped. Great lengths have been taken to get the Ed Snowden versions of Tails off of the web. The latest Tails that is not backdoored is Tails 1.4.1 They took down the entirety of kat.cr for the sake of that one LIVE DVD.
There is a torrent file and sigs here.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/w35ddl
This is the only torrent around for the last of the safe Tails Linux distro. On kat.cr it was posted years ago by TNTVILLAGE forums and it is multi-language. It matches the sha and sig of the original Tails 1.4.1 downloaded from tails.boum.org
1.4.1 is what Ed Snowden used. Obviously Ed Snowden created a US government spy panic and they have absolutely infiltrated boum.org. No version after is safe, do not listen to the bullshit about security patches.
This image was posted in the comments of that torrent page as well.
http://i.imgur.com/QLGyQYf.jpg
You can boot it bare metal on a CD or USB or do exactly the same in VirtualBox or other VM manager. The Guest Additions of VirtualBox prior to 4.2 are safe. After that, remote desktop is available even when disabled. So there you go folks.
Also set your time to inaccurate by as many hours as possible. Time logging is the default tracking mechanisms for all US spy agencies.
With Tails it is more hassle because of root issues but still doable.. but... do this too:
In your torrc add the following two lines:
StrictNodes 1
ExcludeNodes {us}
You will have to tinker with the clock and maybe even reboot with Tails to get it to stick... but with {us} excluded, you block using all US nodes.
I dream of the day that she can share a prison yard with Bush, Cheney, Yoo, and Rumsfeld
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"