Notices by #honobono (honobono@ieji.de)

@SolSoCoG Yeah, honestly I call it “vanity https” lol, unless you have a huge LAN after exit.

@SolSoCoG Thanks! Got harica again. This is the first time for me where https + onion actually makes a difference (?)

It was an interesting experience, actually 🙂

@SolSoCoG Onion is not working? Got an invalid cert, not for ieji but for www.bocholt.social

@SolSoCoG Although this might imply the gap and rich and poor, it’s a great thing (net positive) that our admin is wealthy, using fast, finest devices and markedly privacy-focused… 😼

Happy holidays :)

@SolSoCoG Get well soon 💐

Thinking positively, you might get (strong?) immunity after one victory, so that this ’Rona bug can never bother you again in the future 🙂
Maybe, maybe not. I’m not an expert, this is not medical advice 😅 Take care :)

@SolSoCoG In the latest Tor Browser released just a few days ago, the recent Cloudflare-related issue, where snowflake is trying to connect to Cloudflare IP(s), was treated as a bug (because it times out) and fixed. It seems that among other pro-democracy people, a lot of Iranian users were affected by this indiscriminate blocking by Cloudflare.

@SolSoCoG Yes, more like 3–4 times. A cheap VPS may be like €1/mo, while privacy one starts from €3–10. Privacy can be costly for various reasons.

Njalla is known to be expensive and weird, but they directly accept crypto; paste your pgp pub and communication is pgp. No other companies are like them.

A new, economic version of Njalla is IncogNET (anonymous domain, anonymous hosting). Without a long track record, with a few potential limitations.

https://kycnot.me/

@SolSoCoG Yeah, a few bad actors abuse the Tor network, resulting in some realistic problems. A non-exit node is also helpful, though. For that matter, a regular end-user can easily run a snowflake too.

Given the general pro-privacy, anti-CSS stance of Germany, 25%/mo is surprising and disturbing (assuming you mean German police). I'd believe a relay is a neutral intermediary, protected by 2001/29/EC art. 5…

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2023/08/announcing-tor-university-challenge

EFF has launched their campaign for getting more Tor relays running at universities.
https://toruniversity.eff.org/

If you are at a university, consider setting up relays there. Hopefully this list will make you impressed and you will want to get your university onto it:
Technical University Berlin (Germany)
Boston University (US)
University of Cambridge (England)
…
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-effs-university-tor-relay-campaign/8706

Advocacy doc: why relays especially make sense at universities
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/72