• @southerntofu
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    82 years ago

    This article is not about relays or exit nodes, but about bridges. Bridges are obfuscated ways to access the tor network. So you can run a bridge on a small budget (as long as you have good connectivity) and without any form of legal trouble. Please do it! :)

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    • @southerntofu
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      Tor uses a lot of crypto operations so you’re better off with beefier hardware than a raspberry pi (though a RPi4 would probably do the trick). But you need a somewhat-stable connection and IP address. Bandwidth and latency is what matters for onion routing.

      Also, running a relay has close to zero consequences, but running an exit node can get you into trouble with your local authorities asking wtf are these and those requests coming from your IP. Overall, it’s better to do it from a dedicated IP address.

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  • @loki
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    32 years ago

    “Most people like to scream about privacy until they have to support the project in any meaningful way.”

  • Marxism-Fennekinism
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    22 years ago

    I remember there being an extension to the TBB that turns your browser instance into a relay/bridge? Can’t find it though and forgot its name. Does someone know more about what I’m talking about?

  • Halce
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    -82 years ago

    In other news, the U.S. government sees a decline in the number of people willing to aid its color revolution attempts…

    • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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      42 years ago

      Misinformation. Tor Project is not aimed at aiding sponsored colour revolutions. DARPA funding evidently does not mean anything, just like NSA creating SELinux for Linux kernel does not mean SELinux is backdoored, or for that matter ghidra disassembler tool.

      • Halce
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        12 years ago

        Not saying Tor is backdoored, or that it can’t be used for good.

        • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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          02 years ago

          Just to make it clear, I am not downvoting you. However, it seems you are commenting about a side effect of the article’s topic, which seems not the best thing to say, as it hurts a lot more people than some colour revolution pro imperialists. Think of the Snowdens or Assanges that do not operate as a big public entity.

          • Halce
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            22 years ago

            I understand your point. Mine was that the primary use case of Tor is more intended for the outlined scenario.

            It’s biggest funders are regime change cut-outs, just see: https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors

            For activists, it’s probably best to use Tor on top of some other VPN…

            • @TheAnonymouseJokerM
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              22 years ago

              Or the other option is to not add extra trust layer entity called VPN, and instead pick your exit nodes and have your data filter via DNSSEC enabled no log DNSes with countries of your choice.

              Or, you could actually use E2EE communication via Tor, since no exit node matters in that case. Either of the clients would have to be compromised in that case, since the decryption happens locally with E2EE.

              VPN + Tor setup has been called out on too many times at this point.

    • SIGSEGV
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      12 years ago

      What is a “color revolution”? Can you explain what you mean?

      • A colour revolution uses legitimate griefs people have with their government to co-opt the movement and promote regime change instead for foreign interests that fund the revolution.

        For example a colour revolution is currently attempted in Cuba by mobilising the diaspora who, in turn, mobilises the Cuban population. The embargo is hitting Cuba really bad (cost 60 billion dollars since 1960) and this prevents them from having much-needed medical supplies (especially against covid), cheaper internet access or just more consumer goods.

        That’s a legitimate grief that has led to some unrest sometimes – even if the embargo is not Cuba’s fault and is literally only supported by the USA and Israel. But it’s being weaponised by the United States and they’re funding protests in Cuba so they can point and say “look, people don’t want the communist party in charge! They’re protesting for more freedoms!”. What was originally “we’re tired of not having these simple things, please give us them and we will stop picketing” now has turned into “we will topple the government and throw molotov cocktails at the police”.

        The pattern of a colour revolution is: foreign funding -> local “leaders” -> protesting masses. Foreign powers start funding and even sometimes training people who align with their interests and they put them to work for co-opting protests to promote regime change. Sometimes the people that are funded are not really leaders and locals didn’t even know them until they suddenly took an interest. Sometimes protests are started by bought locals. The common point is that they’re using legitimate unrest to ask for something else entirely.

        Colour revolutions were and still are a favourite of the CIA because you can’t really trace it back to them (not in time at least) and all it takes them is money and meeting with locals. It also creates a ton of support at home because the protestors want “freedom”, and who doesn’t want freedom? What kind of monster is stopping their people from wanting freedom? And if the targeted government retaliates against the protestors in any way, you can also say “look they’re putting down the protests, these people just want democracy why is the government so afraid of giving it to them?”. But they don’t want democracy, they want regime change. They want to install a neoliberal government that will let their natural resources be exported by American companies.

        So the CIA funds loyal people and if the protest doesn’t work out, they were never there. That’s the genius of it. All you have are receipts through front companies (because the leaders are paid for mobilising people against the government) and it’s the protest leaders that get arrested, not the American agents. This means you can try again with another patsy if your fall guy gets busted.

        • SIGSEGV
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          12 years ago

          Thank you for the detailed explanation!