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Teapot commented on Tor's Fall Harvest: The Next Generation of Onion Services blog.torproject.org/tors-... · Posted by u/jerheinze

devrandomguy · 8 years ago

In Qatar, which has a national firewall, I was able to use Tor to browse torrent sites, and then use a regular bittorrent client to fetch the contents of the magnet links (encrypted connections only). That worked great for the few years that I was there. The Qatari internet was a fair bit faster than what I am used to from Canada, about 30 - 50 MB/s at max torrent.

Teapot · 8 years ago

Worth trying Tribler. Seems it's Torrent traffic inside its own Tor network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribler

Teapot commented on HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point troyhunt.com/https-adopti... · Posted by u/dhotson

cpeterso · 9 years ago

"HTTP Nowhere" is a Firefox extension that blocks all non-HTTPS requests. It doesn't try to rewrite HTTP requests to HTTPS, though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/http-nowhere/

Teapot · 9 years ago

I can easily configure NoScript to only use HTTPS on, say, ¤.cn . Sites that downgrade-redirects to http:// gets stuck in a loop. Annoying for everyone, so it raises awareness.

The prefs.js syntax is, noscript.httpsForced "¤.cn\n¤.ru\n*.uk"

Edits: ¤ characters are asterisks.

Teapot commented on Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship m.signalvnoise.com/of-cou... · Posted by u/mVach0n

Teapot · 9 years ago

Facebook makes more money. NSA gets another tap in China. China gets to tap and censor Facebook data. They all win, at the people's expense.

Teapot commented on Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/throwaway2048

elktea · 10 years ago

Looks good. I've added it to my ever growing list of privacy extensions:

  * Privacy Badger
  * Disconnect
  * CanvasBlocker

Can anyone recommend any more?

Teapot · 10 years ago

There are also about:config settings that improves privacy,

//no 3p cookies

network.cookie.cookieBehavior;1

//less referer headers

network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy;2

network.http.referer.spoofSource;true

network.http.referer.trimmingPolicy;2

//etc

beacon.enabled;false

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled;false

dom.enable_performance;false

dom.network.enabled;false

dom.battery.enabled;false

dom.vibrator.enabled;false

dom.storage.enabled;false

dom.indexedDB.enabled;false

Teapot commented on Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates hexatomium.github.io/2015... · Posted by u/svenfaw

Mojah · 11 years ago

I'm glad someone noticed, and at the same time it's a shame it took a month before the news actually came out.

I think this demonstrates 2 very major problems with SSL Certificates we have today:

1. Nobody checks which root certificates are currently trusted on your machine(s).

2. Our software vendors can push new Root Certificates in automated updates without anyone knowing about it.

More content on this rant: https://ma.ttias.be/the-broken-state-of-trust-in-root-certif...

Teapot · 11 years ago

I trust Mozilla more than Microsoft. Is there any way to simply purge all Windows certs and import everything from cert8.db?

Teapot commented on Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP blog.mozilla.org/security... · Posted by u/talideon

unethical_ban · 11 years ago

The actions Mozilla proposes sound awful. I believe that a secure (from the NSA) Internet is the way forward. But this seems so goofy to me. There are legitimate reasons for a site not to be hosted on HTTPS.

  * It is a static site with no forms or logins  
  * It is non-critical info  
  * The site operator can't afford a certificate (Let's Encrypt is only one site...)

As you say: Color-code sites with a bit more granularity. Don't cripple the cleartext web.

Teapot · 11 years ago

Regardless how static a site is attackers are free to inject any script code they wish in the HTML page on Http.

Teapot commented on Ask HN: [Google Rankings] You've got $5k to spend, where do you put it? · Posted by u/dnevogt12

Teapot · 11 years ago

o Fix all broken internal links. Xenu's Link Sleuth is good program (and a hilarious name).

o Never remove old pages, just update them. This prevents braking incoming backlinks.

o Take a look at letsencrypt.org. (Avoid halfway-HTTPS like CloudFlare etc)

o (etc)

Cover all the basics and keep the money.

Teapot commented on The Solar System and Beyond Is Awash in Water jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph... · Posted by u/dodders

duaneb · 11 years ago

> The next logical step is that extra-terrestrial Life is just as common as water, planets and stars.

If this is logic, it's purely inductive. We have no evidence for how likely it is that life form under water-like conditions.

Teapot · 11 years ago

We have proof. So far we already have detected a planet with Earth-like conditions (called Earth). Life formed on it. Possibly several times independantly.

The statistics for life on very earth-like planets are staggering.

Teapot commented on HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03... · Posted by u/ghosh

Teapot · 11 years ago

How about a 'Block all downgrade Redirects' feature. Many sites supports HTTPS but forces a downgrade redirect, 301 or 302, to http.

Teapot commented on Tor Browser 4.0 is released blog.torproject.org/blog/... · Posted by u/conductor

tacoman · 11 years ago

I would tend to agree with this overall. I'm a daily user of Tor for random browsing, but I use it on what is essentially a throw-away tablet using a Tor-only router.

e.g.

https://rednerd.com/2014/10/16/tor-transparent-proxy-on-a-gl...

https://rednerd.com/2013/12/07/portal-for-debian/

Using the TBB gives me the feeling of painting a giant target on my back.

Teapot · 11 years ago

The NSA and other agencies around the world already has you targeted. Tor makes you safer. Tor makes you aware of risks. This is also good since you are now better suited to defend yourself accordingly.

u/Teapot

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