Yes, exactly. How long before passive monitoring becomes active manipulation of streams. "Wouldn't it be great", they say, "if we could stop the terrorist communications from arriving". "Wouldn't it be great if we could stop the Guardian sending all our secrets to/from South America". I know the difference between passive monitoring and messing with packets, but I don't think I'm being too paranoid to think that some part of US cyber defence might think it a good idea to slow down VPNs as an 'emergency measure'. Well, probably it is my ISP but still.
Thanks for suggesting iperf -- I'd not tried it. I ran through their tests. Both TCP and UDP show about 400kbps on the WAN interface. Running 4 parallel connections for TCP also adds up to around 400kbps more or less, so more connections doesn't actually help, it seems. Over the tunnel I also get about 400kbps. I seem to get much less than 400kbps in practice but the order of magnitude from iperf is right. 'top' doesn't go below 99% idle. I'm running Debian stable. The only thing I have from the host is the kernel. Nothing changed around the time when the bandwidth drop started. I don't use a proxy, just route traffic as you say.
I appear to be in a throttled state right now for that IP address. Maybe they'll release the throttling at some point. Then the question is how not to trigger it again. If it is just bandwidth and IP address based, then whatever approach I take will not make a difference -- except Ping Tunnel maybe. I don't get through more than 20GB a month, though, it is not excessive. If it is signature-based, then yes maybe I can change something and not trigger it.
Wrappers would only be useful to evade signature detection, though. I already tried OpenVPN UDP, OpenVPN TCP and plain HTTP and they're all slow right now. I've kept a list of your suggestions to try if/when I'm unthrottled. Thanks for the ideas.
That's a good honest mix of prejudice and truth. US/UK do have a history of stealing oil, though -- CIA admitted its part in Iran just recently -- so it is not just accusations. US defence seems to be based on the idea: "a good offence is the best defence", i.e. meddle everywhere you possibly can. And when everyone hates you, you need your defence more than ever. Oops. (Or not so oops if you're in the defence business.)
Do it and do it now. The news doesn't need censorship.
A simple dump is an overwhelming amount of information. We need someone to pick out the juicy bits and present them on a time-delay so that they each get headlines. That is why we need the journalists working and why a simple dump is not going to be effective in getting change (assuming change is what you're after).
Well, you know what they say: A dumb-as-shit, desperate, gullible millionaire and his money are soon parted.
How many gullible millionaires are there reading slashdot? I think the more gullible one was the one paying slashdot to promote this. At least it is completely irrelevant to most slashdot reader's interests and is easily skippable. If they need cash perhaps they could also promote high technology skin creams for women.
Even without the source (e.g. sheet music) someone with an experienced ear can transcribe it from a recording. So it is more like JavaScript or HTML on web pages -- everyone can read it and copy it but it still may be under some copyright or whatever -- but if you make it slightly different you're probably okay.
NSA and friends are playing by their own ugly rules, which serve noone but them. The "Bourne" series is looking ever more realistic. We should consider ourselves fortunate that they choose to keep to the laws that they had put in place, and don't just shoot on sight anyone they don't like. Will we look back on this as the beginning of something very much worse? First they came for the journalists, and we said nothing...
My information is my private property. Why isn't there a "simple" host your own "data manager" for people that will be their "email, social, storage server"? If opensource had a cause, that should be it,
If everyone uses encrypted cloud storage, with the encryption performed on the local machine, that means that the only attack vector remaining to the NSA is your local machine. This means backdoors in your OS or your application software. For Open Source that means trying to sneak backdoors into open-source projects, or closed-source software commonly used on FLOSSy OSes. We should be prepared for the attack (e.g. should we trust Chrome builds from Google, for instance, since they are already compromised by their relationship with the NSA?)
Sometimes I wonder on slashdot if I should add [sarcasm] or [irony] or [humour] regularly just in case -- things can rapidly wander off into the abyss otherwise -- but I think we're more or less on track here...
I wonder how long till my ATC (Average Time Conscious) shows up in my annual review...
Selecting for some metric never works out well -- ask the Chinese whether melamine powder is good in milk. So the real question is whether Tetris will give you a good ATC score.
Short-term effort shows the results reasonably quickly, good or bad. Long-term effort is a difficult thing to justify in our busy lives, so many people avoid it, whether that be consistent exercise, working on a hobby that will take months to produce something half-decent, or indeed, building any skills that aren't strictly necessary to survive.
I agree. All this will achieve is distract children from actually understanding anything by looking at a feed of supposedly related pictures/videos instead. It reminds me of a YouTube video of "My favorite things" (Sound of Music) in which someone had put clipart pictures of all the things. How completely irrelevant and distracting. The point of the song is not the list of things!
We plan to change nothing about what we're doing, but how can we change people's perception of it so that they give us no hassle? Obviously a marketing problem! Invoke the science of persuasive and reassuring words! Obama has really messed up siding with the NSA. Goodbye any good feeling he might have generated abroad for America. It's all gone a bit sour, sorry.
It is probably a fluff opinion piece, just to stir up some mild controversy -- so she got paid this week. Ever noticed how Magazine articles on BBC news are similar, ask some brain-dead question with a hint of controversy, discuss it a bit, then back down from the controversy without reaching a definite conclusion. This is obviously what keeps 'magazine' readers entertained, and everyone gets paid. It is not to be taken seriously in any way.
It is about not picking fights you can't win. Best put your effort in elsewhere, live under the radar, and if you really have to fight, hit them hard when they're not expecting it.
Otherwise just imagine the panic: non-TFA reading geeks everywhere emerging blinking into the light like an invading zombie army. Could be the end of civilization.
It takes two different kinds of people to create something and then to maintain it over a long period. Probably they got bored of the maintenance work -- and who can blame them? I'm using inoreader.com.
I think the "shock and awe" SWAT tactics just reveal an underlying fear in the police that they could deal with the situation any other way. I guess this is what you get if you have a society where everyone may have a gun and be willing to use it on unwanted visitors, so the default setting of society is excessive violence. Reminds me of that South Park animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCh4-pKrrE -- America was built on scared people (running away from Europe on the Mayflower -- don't blame me, South Park folks said it), and has continued in that great scared tradition (excessive military, excessive foreign intervention, excessive fear of others in society, excessive use of guns, etc, etc). Probably better to rewind 400+ years and try again.
You must be providing Facebook with more data than I am
Maybe that's it -- I have never given LinkedIn much data, so the results are crap. But still turning up random unknown people constantly just makes an even worse impression, and makes it even less likely I'd put information into it.
When FB or Amazon recommends something/someone, I can usually see some sense behind it. LinkedIn is just plain random. I don't know 95% of the people it seems to want to connect me with. It is a joke.
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Yes, exactly. How long before passive monitoring becomes active manipulation of streams. "Wouldn't it be great", they say, "if we could stop the terrorist communications from arriving". "Wouldn't it be great if we could stop the Guardian sending all our secrets to/from South America". I know the difference between passive monitoring and messing with packets, but I don't think I'm being too paranoid to think that some part of US cyber defence might think it a good idea to slow down VPNs as an 'emergency measure'. Well, probably it is my ISP but still.
Thanks for suggesting iperf -- I'd not tried it. I ran through their tests. Both TCP and UDP show about 400kbps on the WAN interface. Running 4 parallel connections for TCP also adds up to around 400kbps more or less, so more connections doesn't actually help, it seems. Over the tunnel I also get about 400kbps. I seem to get much less than 400kbps in practice but the order of magnitude from iperf is right. 'top' doesn't go below 99% idle. I'm running Debian stable. The only thing I have from the host is the kernel. Nothing changed around the time when the bandwidth drop started. I don't use a proxy, just route traffic as you say.
I appear to be in a throttled state right now for that IP address. Maybe they'll release the throttling at some point. Then the question is how not to trigger it again. If it is just bandwidth and IP address based, then whatever approach I take will not make a difference -- except Ping Tunnel maybe. I don't get through more than 20GB a month, though, it is not excessive. If it is signature-based, then yes maybe I can change something and not trigger it.
Wrappers would only be useful to evade signature detection, though. I already tried OpenVPN UDP, OpenVPN TCP and plain HTTP and they're all slow right now. I've kept a list of your suggestions to try if/when I'm unthrottled. Thanks for the ideas.
Is it me, or is that summary incredibly difficult to read?
Try again after a cup of coffee.
That's a good honest mix of prejudice and truth. US/UK do have a history of stealing oil, though -- CIA admitted its part in Iran just recently -- so it is not just accusations. US defence seems to be based on the idea: "a good offence is the best defence", i.e. meddle everywhere you possibly can. And when everyone hates you, you need your defence more than ever. Oops. (Or not so oops if you're in the defence business.)
Do it and do it now. The news doesn't need censorship.
A simple dump is an overwhelming amount of information. We need someone to pick out the juicy bits and present them on a time-delay so that they each get headlines. That is why we need the journalists working and why a simple dump is not going to be effective in getting change (assuming change is what you're after).
Well, you know what they say: A dumb-as-shit, desperate, gullible millionaire and his money are soon parted.
How many gullible millionaires are there reading slashdot? I think the more gullible one was the one paying slashdot to promote this. At least it is completely irrelevant to most slashdot reader's interests and is easily skippable. If they need cash perhaps they could also promote high technology skin creams for women.
Even without the source (e.g. sheet music) someone with an experienced ear can transcribe it from a recording. So it is more like JavaScript or HTML on web pages -- everyone can read it and copy it but it still may be under some copyright or whatever -- but if you make it slightly different you're probably okay.
NSA and friends are playing by their own ugly rules, which serve noone but them. The "Bourne" series is looking ever more realistic. We should consider ourselves fortunate that they choose to keep to the laws that they had put in place, and don't just shoot on sight anyone they don't like. Will we look back on this as the beginning of something very much worse? First they came for the journalists, and we said nothing ...
My information is my private property.
Why isn't there a "simple" host your own "data manager" for people that will be their "email, social, storage server"?
If opensource had a cause, that should be it,
If everyone uses encrypted cloud storage, with the encryption performed on the local machine, that means that the only attack vector remaining to the NSA is your local machine. This means backdoors in your OS or your application software. For Open Source that means trying to sneak backdoors into open-source projects, or closed-source software commonly used on FLOSSy OSes. We should be prepared for the attack (e.g. should we trust Chrome builds from Google, for instance, since they are already compromised by their relationship with the NSA?)
Sometimes I wonder on slashdot if I should add [sarcasm] or [irony] or [humour] regularly just in case -- things can rapidly wander off into the abyss otherwise -- but I think we're more or less on track here ...
Ha, I actually stopped reading at "Without further adieu". But that says more about me than the author, I suppose...
Maybe it is the unconscious suggestion that he had finished what he was saying? An unconscious Alt-F4 -- the adieu button.
I wonder how long till my ATC (Average Time Conscious) shows up in my annual review...
Selecting for some metric never works out well -- ask the Chinese whether melamine powder is good in milk. So the real question is whether Tetris will give you a good ATC score.
Short-term effort shows the results reasonably quickly, good or bad. Long-term effort is a difficult thing to justify in our busy lives, so many people avoid it, whether that be consistent exercise, working on a hobby that will take months to produce something half-decent, or indeed, building any skills that aren't strictly necessary to survive.
I agree. All this will achieve is distract children from actually understanding anything by looking at a feed of supposedly related pictures/videos instead. It reminds me of a YouTube video of "My favorite things" (Sound of Music) in which someone had put clipart pictures of all the things. How completely irrelevant and distracting. The point of the song is not the list of things!
Yeah, where are all the articles asking whether Transformers is possible? This is obvious bias.
We plan to change nothing about what we're doing, but how can we change people's perception of it so that they give us no hassle? Obviously a marketing problem! Invoke the science of persuasive and reassuring words! Obama has really messed up siding with the NSA. Goodbye any good feeling he might have generated abroad for America. It's all gone a bit sour, sorry.
It is probably a fluff opinion piece, just to stir up some mild controversy -- so she got paid this week. Ever noticed how Magazine articles on BBC news are similar, ask some brain-dead question with a hint of controversy, discuss it a bit, then back down from the controversy without reaching a definite conclusion. This is obviously what keeps 'magazine' readers entertained, and everyone gets paid. It is not to be taken seriously in any way.
So this is what fear looks like.
It is about not picking fights you can't win. Best put your effort in elsewhere, live under the radar, and if you really have to fight, hit them hard when they're not expecting it.
... that you don't talk about Fight Club. Then they made it into a movie. It is the American way.
Otherwise just imagine the panic: non-TFA reading geeks everywhere emerging blinking into the light like an invading zombie army. Could be the end of civilization.
He could do a Tom Baker style Doctor -- I can see him with that scarf.
It takes two different kinds of people to create something and then to maintain it over a long period. Probably they got bored of the maintenance work -- and who can blame them? I'm using inoreader.com.
That animation is from Bowling for Columbine, not South Park.
Oops, seems you're right. It comes up right at the top of the search for "south park history of america", though!
I think the "shock and awe" SWAT tactics just reveal an underlying fear in the police that they could deal with the situation any other way. I guess this is what you get if you have a society where everyone may have a gun and be willing to use it on unwanted visitors, so the default setting of society is excessive violence. Reminds me of that South Park animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDCh4-pKrrE -- America was built on scared people (running away from Europe on the Mayflower -- don't blame me, South Park folks said it), and has continued in that great scared tradition (excessive military, excessive foreign intervention, excessive fear of others in society, excessive use of guns, etc, etc). Probably better to rewind 400+ years and try again.
You must be providing Facebook with more data than I am
Maybe that's it -- I have never given LinkedIn much data, so the results are crap. But still turning up random unknown people constantly just makes an even worse impression, and makes it even less likely I'd put information into it.
When FB or Amazon recommends something/someone, I can usually see some sense behind it. LinkedIn is just plain random. I don't know 95% of the people it seems to want to connect me with. It is a joke.