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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:18:29 JST Pissed Hippo
   Okay, now I have my own Wireguard VPN and don't have to use a CIA honeypot.
   
   I installed wireguard using this script, it worked GREAT: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:18:56 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Can I use it? I need to hide from the feds
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:22:31 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot get a 5 dollar vps and I'll set one up for you.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:24:23 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Isn't the entire point that you're mixing in with other ppl?
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:25:46 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot You're thinking of Tor. With a regular VPN you might just want to get past a single point of censorship.
     
     Dubai censors the Internet here a bit and surveils all of it. Like, I can't get to codeberg.org where there's open source projects hosted. This gets around that.
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:29:56 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun For running your own vpn like I do it it doesn't anonymize my traffic but it does secure my traffic when I'm like on public wifi or something, or so my ISP/cell carrier can't inspect my traffic
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:32:37 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     Why not just use a normal vpn then? How is that not better?
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:35:31 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun sometimes you want to mix your traffic, sometimes you want to secure it, they are different goals.
     For me if I want to anonymize my traffic I would use an overlay network like tor rather than a public vpn or proxy.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:36:11 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot @pwm a normal vpn is run by some company somewhere that I don't trust. they could be sniffing my traffic and selling it to anybody. I have no way of knowing. With my setup I avoid that.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:36:39 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     Aren't you using someone elses server? How is that secure, it's not yours.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:40:56 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Ok so you're still just blindly trusting some company even tho you don't actually know what they're doing. Which is fine ig.
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:40:57 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun My vpn is run by me so no problem there so long as I trust my server provider (I do).
     Tor is engineered in a way (onion routing) that I trust so as long as I am using ssl or a secured protocol, I have no problem routing such encrypted traffic through tor.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:41:56 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot @pwm Tor works by routing your traffic through at least three other machines in a way where each one can only see what it is connecting from and to, and not where the original source or destination is except at entry and exit. If an attacker owns every machine then they can track you but in most cases they probably do not.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:42:59 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     I feel like you guys are trying to steer this towards tor (literally run by feds (and jeff cliff)) because I'm right about the vpn thing.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:44:51 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot @pwm If you don't want to listen to me that's fine, I just thought I would be nice and address your concern to explain why it's mostly unfounded.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:47:04 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     I never even mentioned the TPN, you guys did, and it is literally run by feds. Your server company would literally just give you up if they received a request so I'm js, that's how law works.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:48:07 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot @pwm I chose the company I did because I know the owner and know they would take legal effort to avoid secretly giving up my data.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:49:51 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     Ok but there isn't a company in the world that's going to finance a legal battle for your particular circumstances, nor lose access to an entire country of customers.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:51:57 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • pwm
     @bot @pwm Yeah, I know. It's mainly that, if I was using some random VPN vendor they could be a total honeypot but with this it would take a government legal threat to get my traffic.
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:52:17 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • pwm
     @bot @pwm And at the end of the day this is just to get around UAE filtering.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:55:51 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     Reputation seems important but yea ig it's ok with what you're doing. It's all very sus imo not to mention cloudflare
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:56:09 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @bot @pwm cloudflare is a plague
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:01:31 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I'm skeptical because they ban the most controversial sites, isn't that what the feds want to know about?
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:01:32 JST pwm

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     @sun @bot I share the pet theory I heard once that cloudflare is permitted to exist just to mitm 90% of all ssl traffic
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:05:56 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     For what purpose? I mean I really don't think they care about randos posting whatever and if someone really is a problem, they can just find out who they are without doing that.
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:05:57 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun That's less interesting to them than silently gathering the data of literally every internet user en masse to analyse later without a warrant
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:07:42 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     I do think it's very sus tho but what's really going on I wonder. Like even if it was just controlling certain sites and being able to shut them down, they failed with kiwis so..
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     gentoobro (gentoobro@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:10:13 JST gentoobro

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     Large scale metadata collection like the NSA does can connect all the nodes by timings. In order to be secure(ish), you have to ensure that your tor connection goes though a long sequence of nodes that are well outside of NSA snooping abilities, if that's even feasible.

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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:11:10 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun The snowden leaks showed us they were doing just that with what existed at the time.
     More data is better for statistical and pattern based analysis.
     The purpose is for in case they need to go back and look later.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:11:10 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     I don't think the feds need cloudflare for that
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:15:02 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • pwm
     Idk but someone needs to conduct an investigation into this stuff
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     pwm (pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 14:15:03 JST pwm

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     @bot @sun They don't but why would they leave a resource untapped
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 23:04:44 JST 翠星石

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     • pwm
     @pwm >I am using ssl
     SSL is depreciated and is very insecure.
     
     You want to use TLS, preferable TLSv1.3, but TLSv1.2 isn't horrible.