Boingboing bbs discouraging privacy?

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Fair 'nuff.

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Yup yup yup. And a couple more yups.

We agree on a fundamental principal, there is no black and white. In this day and age IP banning is like Han Solo with a blaster when we need a more elegant weapon, but it gets the job done.

BTW, do you happen to have a source for tor and i2p interconnect or routing nodes? Entrance and exit are easy, it’s the stuff in between that is hard to track.

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It was pretty funny the first year defcon moved to the Rio, and every ATM and elevator was pwned on day one. Well, funny to me, I was staying somewhere else.

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I don’t, but I’m not sure why you’d need it, either? If the node doesn’t have an exit policy than it isn’t routing traffic outside of Tor (and as a result isn’t going to hit BBS).

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Let’s just say I have $reasons. But it is God awful hard to trace, unless you bribe ask nicely for netflow or router log data.

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and most reasons are Not Nice, even academia has no ethical problems doing attacks research (c.f. CMU’s SEI)

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The main reason I track onion routing and crypto currencies isn’t because there is anything inherently wrong with them. It is because libraries bundled with malware commonly tunnel via protocols such as tor, and very commonly use computer power in crypto currency pools.

So answering the question, are there tor transit flows on my network, is really a proxy question for, Are there compromised hosts on my network.

Onion routing is neither bad or good. It is just traffic. But I sure as shit want to know if VPCs in my DC are forwarding certain kinds of traffic–cause they should never do that. Being able to answer that question is literally a multi billion dollar issue.

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Disturb, disrupt, disengage, disease, dissolve, disavow, dispense, disgrace. Loads of possibilities.

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I have a suggestion regarding your visualisation. (And no, I don’t want to derail. There’s the Peter’s projection thread for that.)

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It was crude, linear, and slapdash. I appreciate the link, I suspect this won’t be the last geo infosec dashboard I develop :grinning:

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