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Onion Debian Services Are Now Available (debian.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the universal-operating-system dept.

"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.

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  1. "Yay for privacy"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re: "Yay for privacy"? by TuballoyThunder · · Score: 1

      With this one, simple trick I eliminated 80% of my spam. Spammers hate this trick! Read it now before they take it down.

    2. Re: "Yay for privacy"? by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 1

      Were you deliberately writing like a spammer to make fun?

      If not, the basic Postfix configuration documentation you link to can be effectively in profoundly reducing spam, but the "remaining 20%" is still enough to flood most moderate mail servers.

      I am amused that Symantec is claiming that spam has fallen below 50% of all current email. What they're counting as spam has apparently been pre-filtered on the _outbound_ side, by ISP's blocking port 25 outbound and forcing their clients to use authentication to mail proxy servers on port 587. It's been quite fascinating to watch as botnets are being forced to steal access to computers local credentials, and access the better run managed and better monitored mail proxies with individual stolen credentials.

    3. Re: "Yay for privacy"? by TuballoyThunder · · Score: 1

      Yep, I was trying to mimic the spam/ad writing style.

      The last 20% is not trivial to eliminate and often (always in many cases) overwhelms legitimate mail. I have spent the last few weeks retraining spamassassin to gain a few more percentage points. I think I will enable autolearn and dovecot-antispam to help keep the Bayesian database current.

  2. I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:I don't get it. by JustOK · · Score: 2

      Is that what's making that whooosh sound? Should turn it off before the onion makes someone cry, and put it back on your belt.

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      rewriting history since 2109
  3. Re:Ew no. by gilgongo · · Score: 2

    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...

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    "And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
  4. Re:onion.systemd next? by lucm · · Score: 1

    No need for it, systemd is already obfuscated by design. It even replaces error messages with dots to make sure nobody can use them maliciously (or non-maliciously).

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    lucm, indeed.
  5. Oh noes by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

    "...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.

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
  6. Yay for systemd by sce7mjm · · Score: 1

    "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.....

  7. Re:Ew no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  8. How to download TOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    How to download TOR without everyone knowing that you downloaded it? Crap.

  9. Re:onion.systemd next? by lucm · · Score: 1

    That guy is undoing decades of good open source work, and nobody is doing a thing about it. He's Windowsing linux.

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    lucm, indeed.
  10. Re:onion.systemd next? by flyingfsck · · Score: 1

    Slackware is delightfully Poetering free.

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    Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
  11. Re:Trump 2016 by TheCarp · · Score: 1

    I dream of the day that she can share a prison yard with Bush, Cheney, Yoo, and Rumsfeld

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    "I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"