derpherpsson (u/derpherpsson)

derpherpsson commented on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd... · Posted by u/keepamovin

SXX · 2 years ago

For those who wondering: best practical use of I2P is to tunnel SSH access to obscure devices behind NAT where you can't or dont want to use something like Tailscale. Or imagine you have that torrent box you using for seeding obscure book or music collection. You can pay for the server with crypto, but I2P is good to make sure you can access and configure it privately.

derpherpsson · 2 years ago

Have you heard of yggdrasil then? It sounds like it would be a better match for your use candidate

yggdrasil is a "greynet". End-to-end encrypted, self-organizing via DHT, but no onion/garlic routing. Has interop capabilities with both Tor and I2P though, and some yggdrasil nodes are I2P- or Tor-only. A world-tree with roots (tunnels) going in all the spheres of existence (nets)

Hands out IPv6 addresses to its users. These addresses are generated automatically from the signature of your public key, so essentially impossible to spoof, and automatic authentication, plus end-to-end encryption. As if IPsec was pervasive and completely transparent

derpherpsson commented on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd... · Posted by u/keepamovin

wongarsu · 2 years ago

I really like I2P as a project, and I think it gets a lot of things right. For example having every network participant relay some internal traffic, instead of relying on altruism from relay operators, makes it much harder for a single entity to control enough hops to deanonymize users.

Sadly, outside of torrenting I2P doesn't seem to have much traction, losing out to the better funded tor project

derpherpsson · 2 years ago

I2P has a community of people that actually use the darktubes, as opposed to Tor. 99% of Tor users use Tor to browse the vanilla internets just. There is no real 'Tor community'

derpherpsson commented on The unsolved mystery attack on internet cables in Paris wired.com/story/france-pa... · Posted by u/Reventlov

Freak_NL · 3 years ago

It also scales up law enforcement's efforts to catch you, and pushes the criminal act you would perform up to terrorism. There are not many who would be willing to throw away their lives for acts that mostly just cause a bit of economic damage.

derpherpsson · 3 years ago

Yeah. It's fortunate that we are not psychopaths hellbent on causing mayhem.

derpherpsson commented on The unsolved mystery attack on internet cables in Paris wired.com/story/france-pa... · Posted by u/Reventlov

derpherpsson · 3 years ago

A far more effective way to sabotage the infrastructure would be to plant a bomb there, in the hole. It does not even have to be a functional bomb. It's enough to just make the repair technicians fear for their lives. It will take a lot of time for them to call a bomb disposal unit, and so on.

And then you repeat that a couple of times at random places. If you don't want to kill people, the first bombs should be duds, but occasionally some of the later bombs should be real, so they don't let down the guard, but learn to fear the repair jobs.

Then after that, EVERY SINGLE repair job, even when you didn't actually sabotage it yourself, would become super-expensive and take lots-and-lots of time.

After you trained them, you can lower the number of sabotages with mostly duds, and the occasional real bomb, to just once every couple of months. They still need to handle every single repair job as if you had been there. Minimal cost for you, maximized cost for them.

There. I optimized it for you.

derpherpsson commented on The need for quantum computers remains small theregister.com/2022/07/2... · Posted by u/hunglee2

derpherpsson · 3 years ago

If you are able of imagining the future, and capable of logical coherent thoughts, the statement "the need for quantum computers remains small" is just... damn narrow-minded and perhaps just plain stupid.

If you can shave off a factor n in O(n^3) then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y it will change the world. If you don't see the obviousness in this, then why are you working with computers?

Before you hate on me, did you even google "quantum computer"? Did you read the introduction section of the Wikipedia article?

derpherpsson commented on Sweden’s central bank says it has begun testing an e-krona reuters.com/article/us-ce... · Posted by u/pseudolus

rabuse · 6 years ago

It's buzzwords being thrown around again. Blockchain is highly inefficient for anything other than decentralized consensus.

derpherpsson · 6 years ago

Maybe the blockchain is meant for "offline" transactions, when neither part is in contact with the Main Server.

Disclaimer: I dont know

derpherpsson commented on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) twitter.com/gravislizard/... · Posted by u/zdw

derpherpsson · 6 years ago

The reason for this is, among other things, systems programmers wrote the UIs in 1983. Today random twenty-years-old web-muppets write the UIs.

The system programmers of 1983 were used to low-level programming, and most of them had probably written code in assembler. Web programmers seldom have that deep understanding of the computer.

At least, this is true from my own personal experience.

derpherpsson commented on Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections seclists.org/oss-sec/2019... · Posted by u/jedisct1

derpherpsson · 6 years ago

Correct me if I am wrong, but...

If I just make sure that incomming packets that are destined for the VPN LAN are dropped, this attack does not work?

Of course there are such rules in our firewalls??

Is everyone walking around without any firewall filtering nowadays? How is this a bug? Maybe I am just stupid. Did I miss something?

derpherpsson commented on Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/0xmohit

derpherpsson · 6 years ago

The article essentially reads as "we payed lots of monies for a mediocre scanner, and then we discovered that the FOSS nmap did everything we needed. So we took nmap and added a little bit of extra, a web interface, and gave it the name Flan Scanner."

. . .

The corporate world is so facepalm sometimes

derpherpsson commented on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour? · Posted by u/newsbinator

Waterluvian · 6 years ago

Learn NATO phonetic alphabet while in traffic. Keep a reference card in your car's visor and then read out loud every license plate you see.

derpherpsson · 6 years ago

WHY