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flotzam commented on New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis libroot.org/posts/going-t... · Posted by u/libroot

pfisherman · a month ago

Can someone spell out how this is possible? Do pdfs store a complete document version history? Do they store diffs in the metadata? Does this happen each time the document is edited?

flotzam · a month ago

At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says

"The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the document, thereby keeping a running history of revisions to the document.

This tool extracts all previous revisions while also producing a summary of changes between revisions."

flotzam commented on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout radar.cloudflare.com/rout... · Posted by u/honeycrispy

helloaltalt · a month ago

IPv4 is sanctioned/heavily restricted in iran as well, I mean very high filtering

The reason they didn't do this for ipv6 is because ipv6 obviously has a lot more addresses and so they just ended up blocking it whole.

Atleast that's what I read in one of the comment threads discussions in here

I don't think that in iran there would still be any available ipv4 entry nodes that they would allow. They would filter/block it as well?

flotzam · a month ago

Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": https://bridges.torproject.org/

But you can reach the IPv6 internet through those too.

flotzam commented on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout radar.cloudflare.com/rout... · Posted by u/honeycrispy

helloaltalt · a month ago

Quick question but would tor work in this case?

Is this the first country which genuinely effectively is able to ban tor?

Because even in China, tor can work through bridges or some other methods and even Chinese firewalls aren't so extreme as iran right now.

Edit: forgot that north korea exists so I guess the second country but even in north korea there was this chinese interviewer or japanese interviewer who contacted people in north korea ig and those north koreans then interviewed for the first time completely uncensored north korea and it was brutal (a girl saying both her parents died and she was so so skinny i think) , they then went and smuggled the tapes from north korea to china and then to japan and then the company/production company or something blurred the peoples faces involved for anonymity.

There's also this 1 steam connection in north korea so its just gonna be a mystery if we ever see a north korean person using a tor but I am 99% sure that it wont but north korea also got 1 steam connection so you never know.

flotzam · a month ago

Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.

flotzam commented on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social/?url=https... · Posted by u/christoph-heiss

ekjhgkejhgk · 2 months ago

OT

https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io

Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way?

What's is the point of blocking access? Mastodon doesn't do that. This reminds me of Twitter or Instagram, using sleezy techniques to get people to create accounts.

flotzam · 2 months ago

> Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way?

It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.io

flotzam commented on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie

huhtenberg · 2 months ago

How exactly are they going to link accounts with no real names, personal info or identifiable emails to a person?

flotzam · 2 months ago

Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases

The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC

flotzam commented on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie

flotzam · 2 months ago

What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts?

There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media profiles. Maybe some of them are reading this. I'm curious about their experiences.

flotzam commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

xg15 · 2 months ago

I find it depressing that there seem to be only two ways to distribute media and manage one's audio collection: Either ultra-convenient but fully locked down streaming services - or analog "vintage" media like vinyl or cassettes, which do give you a physical medium under your full control, but also require you to forego all the progress we made with digital media.

The one thing that's absent: Plain old audio files that you can store on your hard drive and copy to your phone or other devices.

Edit: Ok, there are still more options left than I thought. I take that back then :)

flotzam · 2 months ago

Bandcamp is huge

flotzam commented on Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy flower.codes/2025/10/23/o... · Posted by u/speckx

wartywhoa23 · 4 months ago

> Oh, and free speech and anti-censorship and all that jazz.

That jazz is increasingly played by the same band of 185.220.0.0/16 exit nodes, and plays it in a scale which is all but Anonymian.

flotzam · 4 months ago

No part of hosting or visiting onion services involves exit nodes. Onion service traffic stays within the Tor network instead of exiting to the clearnet.

flotzam commented on Poison, Poison Everywhere loeber.substack.com/p/29-... · Posted by u/dividendpayee

cassepipe · 4 months ago

Is this a dirty hack or an intended use case ?

flotzam · 4 months ago

A dirty intended use case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...

flotzam commented on Vietnam Airlines Data Breach haveibeenpwned.com/Breach... · Posted by u/pbd

zkmon · 4 months ago

Trying to understand what's the real damage here. Dates of birth, Email addresses, Loyalty program details, Names, Phone numbers - how is one going to use this data to cause a loss the data owner? If any security check depends on this data by considering it as a secret, then I guess it's the fault of that security check.

flotzam · 4 months ago

It's inherently a loss of privacy that anyone (given that the dataset is now public) can correlate

> Dates of birth, Email addresses, Loyalty program details, Names, Phone numbers