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  • 2 things:

    1. This seems to be a specific attack for their IM protocol if the entry node was compromised, and could be placed nearby the client. To make this much easier, you’d want to compromise both the entry and exit nodes (in this case exit node is TOR native, so it’s more like internal node).

    This has never been unknown, this is one of the fundamental attack vectors against TOR, the IM protocol seemed to make correlation easier due to its real time nature.

    They added a protection layer called Vanguard, to ensure the internal exit nodes were fixed to reduce the likelihood that you could track a circuit with a small number of compromised internal exit nodes. This seems like it would help due to reducing likelihood of sampling.

    1. TOR has always been vulnerable, the issue is the resources needed are large, and specifically, the more competition for compromising nodes the more secure it is. Basically now the NSA is probably able to compromise most connections, and they wouldn’t announce this and risk their intelligence advantage unless there was an extremely valuable reason. They definitely wouldn’t do so because a drug dealer was trying to make a sale. Telling normal law enforcement basically ends their advantage, so they won’t.

    Other state actors might try, but they’re not in the same league in terms of resources, IIRC there are a LOT of exit nodes in Virginia.

    tl;dr - The protocol is mostly safe, it doesn’t matter if people try to compromise it, the nature of TOR means multiple parties trying to compromise nodes make the network more secure as each faction hides a portion of data from the others, and only by sharing can the network be truly broken. Good luck with that.


  • That’s bullshit, it’s fun just in different ways.

    Sweden is coffee and biscuits while the US is cocaine with meth as a treat.

    The system is all over the place, it’s safe for them to be drones, but if they show any potential they get fired up the railgun of intense academics like you can’t believe, they have some absolutely incredible engineers and scientists, and as a percentage of their population it’s almost unheard of.

    The downside is after school they tend to leave for the US or elsewhere, the actual job opportunities for world-class scientists and engineers in Sweden are decent, but their yield of talent far, FAR outstreteches the economic capacity to carry them.

    They have the talent pool of West Germany with the population of, well, Sweden (10.5m, it’s tiny).













  • Meh, not nearly as configurable as linux, some things you can’t change.

    NFS beats SMB into a cocked hat.

    You start spending more time in a terminal on linux, because you’re not dealing with your machine, you’re always connecting to other machines with their resources to do things. Yeah a terminal on windows makes a difference, and I ran cygwin for a while, it’s still not clean.

    Installing software sucks, either having to download or the few stuff that goes through a store. Not that building from source is much better, but most stuff comes from distro repos now.

    Once I got lxc containers though, actually once I tried freebsd I lost my windows tolerance. Being able to construct a new effective “OS” with a few keystrokes is incredible, install progarms there, even graphical ones, no trace on your main system. There’s just no answer.

    Also plasma is an awesome DE.


  • Same dictatorships that helped con England into giving up one of its largest advantages.

    The French must be jealous of the Germans for having a word for feeling joy at the misfortune of others…

    At some point this mess will have to be fixed. Well, I mean technically it doesn’t, but assuming there are adults around it just seems like some of them should clean up the dogshit on the floor.

    Or are we waiting for it to smell more so we can rub the morons’ noses into it more? That makes sense too.



  • It wasn’t artillery, it was shells.

    We had access to bat guano from islands in the pacific for nitrogen, well, eventually.

    The Germans had to develop whole new chemical processes to keep up, and they were expensive.

    Until the US entered, Germany had an advantage in number of guns, and actually shells too at the very beginning (England was not ready for a non-colonial war).

    Chatgpt, because I’m too lazy to cite real research:

    Yes, Germany had more artillery guns and shells in the early stages of World War I, particularly before the United States entered the war in 1917. Germany had invested heavily in artillery prior to the war, and its military strategy, especially in the Western Front, relied on heavy artillery barrages. This gave Germany a significant edge in terms of both the quantity and quality of its artillery.

    At the start of the war, Germany’s emphasis on artillery allowed them to fire large amounts of shells in major battles, including during the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. However, as the war dragged on and the Allies ramped up their production and coordination (with significant help from the United States after 1917), Germany’s advantage in artillery was gradually eroded. By 1918, the combined forces of the Allies, with U.S. involvement, had caught up in terms of artillery and shell production, significantly diminishing Germany’s earlier advantage.

    The U.S. entry into the war tipped the balance in favor of the Allies in terms of both manpower and industrial capacity, contributing to the eventual defeat of Germany.