Updating my #Tor-ified network infrastructure at work from #HardenedBSD 11-STABLE to 12-STABLE.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Monday, 19-Nov-2018 19:58:41 UTC 
Shawn Webb
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Oct-2018 21:59:56 UTC
Shawn Webb
I'm curious if there are any OS's other than #HardenedBSD that ship #tor packages compiled with CFI and SafeStack.
CC: @torproject
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Billy Blaze (ckeen)'s status on Friday, 19-Oct-2018 12:27:27 UTC 
Billy Blaze
New #gopher client available!
With #Smalltalk and #Tor!
gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/0/ckeen/phlog/2018-10-19-Improvements-to-smalltalk-gopher.md -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 03:01:40 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
It drives me crazy when sites block access via #Tor to read-only resources (like articles)---it doesn't make much sense to me. It's probably a quick decision by a team of people that don't really care or think about it, but it has strong effects that in the best case discourage use of an important privacy/anonymity tool, and in the worst case outright prevent certain users from accessing those resources (if Tor is their only option).
A common workaround I use is to prepend "https://web.archive.org/" to the URL to load it in the #WaybackMachine from the Internet Archive. Sometimes websites block even that.
The Internet Archive does great, important work, btw. Here's a recent article that emphasizes some of the major problems they're solving:
https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-broken-links-on-wikipedia-are-now-rescued/ -
Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 19:21:09 UTC
Shawn Webb
I might give another try at setting up #Mastodon behind my #Tor-ified network. Registration using a .onion email address would be required.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 14:46:17 UTC
Shawn Webb
My patch to #OpenSMTPD to support #Tor has been accepted! https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD/issues/852
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Sep-2018 02:03:19 UTC
Shawn Webb
Installing the latest Cross-DSO CFI with SafeStack update on my #HardenedBSD dev laptop over my #Tor-ified network. Let's see how this goes.
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Universally Unique LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) (lnxw48a1)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 09:18:40 UTC 
Universally Unique LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)
@maltimore @moonman @Wolf480pl Not an option. I spend most of my time logging in from #hotel_Wi-Fi, so #VPN and #Tor are essential. -
Universally Unique LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 09:24:57 UTC
Universally Unique LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)
@wolf480pl @moonman Ah, but AFAIK, #Cloudflare is still hostile to #Tor and #VPN, Using either will throw so many CAPTCHAs at people that they'll just avoid the CF-fronted site. -
ฝﾑﾚズﾑฝﾑﾘ ﻭｷ (40% pure) (xj9)'s status on Monday, 17-Sep-2018 13:25:09 UTC 
ฝﾑﾚズﾑฝﾑﾘ ﻭｷ (40% pure)
my onion #fediverse guide is almost finished! just a handful of steps left to flesh out.
i will be providing a disk image that you can flash onto an SD card as well for folks to can't be bothered to do the configuration by hand.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Thursday, 06-Sep-2018 01:43:54 UTC
Shawn Webb
Now added to my local #gitea server, which sits behind my #Tor-ified network and has a v3 Onion service: #OpenBSD src.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 01:14:13 UTC
Shawn Webb
Giving Tiny Tiny RSS behind my #Tor-ified network a try. I'd like to start self-hosting more services.
I have nothing against The Old Reader (which I use), I'm just hoping to migrate more services to Tor.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 23:10:12 UTC
Shawn Webb
My road warrior #Tor-ified network setup, powered by #HardenedBSD, now has two mPCIe wireless NICs. :)
It's nice knowing that I can be fully behind Tor no matter where I go.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 21:16:43 UTC
Shawn Webb
Migrating my home #Tor-ified wireless access point to #HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT/amd64 with Cross-DSO CFI.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 23:13:36 UTC
Shawn Webb
Alright. www/chromium built again for me, so I'm going to give it a whirl. Let's see how this works, especially behind my #Tor-ified network.
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 23:50:10 UTC
Shawn Webb
My interns spent 10 weeks fully behind the #Tor-ified network with an infrastructure based solely on #HardenedBSD. Even their laptops ran HBSD, the only OS I trust when doing this kind of sensitive research.
I'm proud of the work they've done.
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Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 02:10:58 UTC
Mike Gerwitz
This article is popular right now on HN:
https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/
It's something that many of us have been saying for many years. But I've been largely insulated from it: I have blocked all scripts and ads (for privacy and security reasons, but also because most sites serve proprietary JavaScript code) for years. If it weren't for my research (https://mikegerwitz.com/talks), I wouldn't have realized just how bad it has become.
I've also run all my browsing through #Tor for years. And what this article reminds me of (but does not mention; this is unrelated) is how Tor used to be so painfully slow---worse than dialup. It has improved drastically over the years, but by design, it's always going to be slower than directly connecting to a webserver.
But despite that, websites often finish loading for me much faster than those who use the "normal" web over a normal connection, because it's not loading so much shit. That also allows me to stick to <256MiB of data per month on my mobile plan, despite browsing sites linked to on HN and despite the extra packets from Tor itself. (Btw, text.npr.org is great, for those who didn't know of it.)
The very things that got me downvoted into oblivion on HN years ago are now the popular, obvious things. Why do things have to get so _bad_ before most people begin to care? -
UNIX/GF (xj)'s status on Monday, 30-Jul-2018 15:50:56 UTC 
UNIX/GF
@bob @notclacke @lnxw48a1 @dwmatiz @cwebber @cobra2 @dansup @Michcioperz
i'd be a lot more interested in bringing optional onion routing to #cjdns than normalizing #tor use. its a lot less error prone to set up a container to network over a tun than it is to make sure that some combination of proxies doesn't accidentally leak your ip address.
operating at layer 2 makes it much much simpler to get your software working over an anonymous overlay network since the software can behave normally. i don't know of anyone that is doing this, but i don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. it'd also be a great opportunity to incorporate some of the decentralized anon routing tech that #i2p uses. -
Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2018 12:58:10 UTC
Shawn Webb
@miwilc Haha, true. I wonder if it'd be possible to even sync it to my #gitea #Tor onion service. ;)
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Shawn Webb (lattera)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jul-2018 23:49:28 UTC
Shawn Webb
Time to prep my APU4b4 with #HardenedBSD to replace my Core i3-based firewall appliance that's serving as my #Tor-ified network firewall.
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