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Anyone have experience with blacked out FOI docs?

I was glancing at the "Pre-September 11, 2001 Trading Review" today and noticed that the part explaining the newsletter's motivation was omitted.

In practice, for what reasons do things end up omitted from FOI documents?

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touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 03:13:30 JST

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@mint @SilverDeth @ins0mniak @p @shibao they always had a bunch of alt culture types in there.

it's kind of tragic how these days alt culture types are usually some sort of mentally ill people. you'd have cipherpunks on thinkpads, anarchofuturists with hydroponics, engineers that nerd out about 3d printing, old retired guys that crash cars for fun and just wanna teach you how to weld.

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touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 19:38:57 JST

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@mint @p @SilverDeth @ins0mniak @shibao i used to love going to hacker spaces

covid kinda killed that habit for me (along with many others) but i hope the hackerspaces survived it

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touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 12:33:41 JST

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@p @DaddyO @Leyonhjelm @leyonhjelm what if you ruin star wars

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@p @DaddyO @Leyonhjelm @leyonhjelm
hmmm... it's sort of like.
if you made a funny webcomic about turning your mouse cursor into a :senko: senko. back when javascript only did that and made blinking under construction text.

would it still be as funny today, now that javascript has changed somewhat?

i think it would be less funny. so i think that spaceballs could seem less funny if star wars became sufficiently estranged and new connotations are created.

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@p @eriner @0 @Forestofenchantment @FourOh-LLC @Hoss @PurpCat @SockPuppet @amerika @dcc @dj @doonxib @istvan @mutualaid @viber
he wants to gentrify dark fedi! get him!

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@p @Hoss remember when hellthreads were good?

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@p @Hoss hold on, that's not the right way to do it

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@Hoss @p @amerika @0 @Forestofenchantment @FourOh-LLC @Hoss @PurpCat @SockPuppet @dcc @dj @doonxib @eriner @istvan @viber
remember when hellthreads were good?

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@p @laurel back in grad school, i used to have a separate, internet-free computer that i had removed the networking card from for writing and research. it worked very well

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touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 02:50:10 JST

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> Soapbox. It's the same backend as Pleroma and Akkoma, but no one deploys it aside from people that Gleason has personally persuaded.

this is an incorrect statement in several ways.

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touch fluffy tail (Heroic) :verified: (fluffy@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 06:01:31 JST

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@p @DutchBoomerMan @NonPlayableClown @SarahGation
from leaked NSA documents i've read and court indictions i've perused, i hypothesize that you stand out quite a lot using tor. sometimes it is better to not stand out than it is to be technically secure. for this reason, i think your comparison is not fair. after all, nobody will stop you from buying groceries if you have a ski mask on either. ultimately, i'm really only concerned with internet nutcases. and these sorts of people are completely defeated with basic fingerprint protection and a cheap proxy. i do not know your threat model, but i am not even pretending to defend against a nation state level attack - it is much better to avoid it in the first place by being a boring person doing boring people things.

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@p @DutchBoomerMan @NonPlayableClown @SarahGation

I like the point you raise about traffic being different from tiktok/facebook. To be entirely frank, if it were up to me to design such a system, I would probably use that as a first pass myself.

It is speculation on my part, but I suspect that the lists which contain people whose traffic is meaningfully different from tiktok zoomer et al and the lists which contain people who use Tor are not the same lists. I've not seen any documents that describe the sort of lists that spies keep on citizens, but it is unlikely to be something I will find well-engineered.

>but here's something you may not have known: visiting LWN or the LKML archives got people flagged and added to a watchlist by the NSA for a while.
I certainly was not aware of this.
Looking briefly, I see that this was a controversy from 2010. I doubt anything has improved.

>it if it were more common.
I would already be using it if it this were the case.

In the end, I want to emphasize that many individuals of a technical mindset place too much faith in intsec and deeply underemphasize fundamental security practices such as compartmentalization, discretion, and inconspicuous. Discussions are often about Tor, about proxies, but you never hear anyone say to buy a second computer. And if you read about cases such as the silk road raid, those criminals are nearly always done in by a lack of basic security fundamentals. It may be an extreme comparison, but there's no point in using Tor if your browser has facebook cookies.

>if you think a proxy is less suspicious than Tor, because nearly all proxy services are on the list.
I was not aware of this. If anyone else had said as much to me, I would not have believed it. I looked briefly online but was not able to find any details, so i hope that you can recall a hint that helps me search for more to read about.

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