Is digital privacy a meme?

Is digital privacy a meme?
> US navy invents Tor to assist dissenters in foreign countries avoid government crackdown
> Security agencies invent bitcoin to enable Iran-Contra esque deals to be harder to detect

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Do you even know what a meme is you dumbass weebposter. Why the fuck should the answer even matter?

Privacy doesn't exist

There is no anonymity on the internet, why would you think otherwise?

I'm just surprised that Stallman, who seems to be a really paranoid kinda fella doesn't criticize or at least address the implementation of SHA-256 into the bitcoin code or doesn't seem concerned about Tor being developed by the US navy. In fact he claims he's a Tor user. Idk.

>tor
GNUnet is better

He's a tor user because they're too lazy to develop a good gui and documentation for GNUnet, which for those 2 reasons lacks users. Tor has the flaws of being centralized and potentially non-anonymous. Literally every other protocol is better (gnunet / ipfs / freenet / i2p /...)

Tor is only deanonymized if you do something like enable Java, the smaller user base of other software makes it easier to single out an individual as well.

Even with the Javascript disabled, the government may control majority of the nodes

Complete privacy is a meme. However, I think it is a worthwhile endeavor to make sure your information falls into the least amount of hands as possible.

Meaning they are collecting snippets of encrypted traffic, no biggie

But why would they develop tools to help us achieve true anonymity? I think it's naive to think they didn't include backdoors (that of course, none of us can detect because we didn't write those tools) in both Tor and SHA-256 (made by the NSA) just to name two examples.

The end node sees everything you do. Tor is as anonymous as a VPN, so not at all. There's a difference between being anonymous to the website, being anonymous to the ISP and being anonymous to users. You need all 3 to be truly anonymous and protected.

To be fair, the HDD backdoors let them control your PC and have on-fly decryption for everything you do. So it's not like they have to worry at all as long as you have a WD or Seagate HDD.

To pass state secrets between individuals? Maybe there is some backdoor, but the countless firearms/hitmen/drugs/pedo/fraud hidden services makes me believe otherwise. Adding a backdoor also means enemy states (such as Russia & China) will eventually end up finding it, so backdooring is a risk even to the developers who first created it

And the end node connects through two other nodes, so you may see what the exit node is doing but not who is requesting it

Which is irrelevant when you can be profiled depending on your activity.

Profiled =/= identified

Profiled means they know you like loli, it doesn't mean they know who you are

>compare your interests to clearnet ones
>narrow you down to less than 500 people
>see if you've downloaded tor or anything that contains tor
>narrow down to 1-5 users

Thats only if you give associated info outside of Tor, I'd you don't then they have nothing

And one last question: when someone mines bitcoin: what is this "mining" calculating? How do I know if my computer isn't actually trying to crack passwords or stuff like that?
I've been checking the Rebecca.tech archive and reading about Sup Forums's thoughts on bitcoin in 2010 and many called it a botnet. And to be honest, it might be.
See this post: reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/16lggw/what_is_mining_actually_doing/
They give the fancy explanation but no one really knows what really is being calculated and why the results of these calculations have so much value.
I tried to ask this on /biz/ but they are blinded by btc's monetary value so they just tell me that I have no idea how this works but don't give me any explanation that makes sense.

>Russia and china
Not sure if related but china banned bitcoin and Russia is working in their own cruptocurrency. Similar to what they did with Facebook, they said fuck this nsa bullshit and made their own.

This may be relevant to your question: crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/42828/what-is-the-largest-bit-rsa-encryption-to-be-cracked

How would they know who to compare against? As stated here its not enough to just have the exit node IP, a few thousand people may be using the same IP. To accurately profile someone you would need their real IP and their exit node IP. Yet the whole point of Tor is to never let that happen, so no.

Also bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous

The end node is a man in the middle. Using HTTPS or any other encryption completely destroys any access to your data they have.

You really think the NSA won't spy on you if you access HTTPS sites only? Sure that would stop a random pajeet from doing it but that's it.

I want to fug remilia

I wanna lick her butthole

what is the best way to use tor then? wget crap you might potentially want to read, then physically trasfer stuff over to an airgapped computer that wont potentially leak anything in order to open/read anything at all?
even if you arent opening anything on the networked computer, how great is the risk that malicious code or (intentional) incompetence on the part of node operators could deanonymise you?
not even getting into the can of worms that is figerprinting and how easy it is to single you out as the only tor user on a a library/university/business network, or as the only one that is using wget or proxychains/vpn combo or even minor changes to default torbrowser

What does this mean? I know satoshi wanted to implement tor into the btc wallet but I dont know if he did. You can find his posts talking about it on bitcointalk.

remibash

i really think tor is misadvertised as a "privacy" tool
at best its precisely a anti-profiling tool.
as in, you'll never truly be anonymous, but if you use tor, at the very least it will be more difficult for ad and analytics companies to track you.
i think the ideal situation would be for firefox to roll it into the default installation, with a larger user base the privacy it affords is better, and figerprinting becomes less of an issue, anonymity aside.
ofc it'll never happen due to the lag and lack of volunteers to decentralize or speed up the network.

So you think Tor is an adblocker with drug trafficking capabilities? Kewl

Your web usage will never start exclusively on tor so you'd have to limit your tor usage to things you haven't googled™ already.
If you're not using tor as an everyday web provider, the same way you'd use internet without it, it defeats the purpose of staying anonymous on the internet making it pointless. If the service is so bad that you have to build a separate identity to use it then it's not a good alternative to standard web.

>thinking HTTPS means the site is safe
?

>How would they know who to compare against?
They compare you against the masses stored in already existing databases.
>a few thousand people may be using the same IP
I didn't say they'd be 100% sure who you are on tor, but they definitely know who's using the IP on clear web. 90% of the internet uses Google's JavaScripts so your identity will leak on regular web and so will all your interest. Which means if they want to do a targeted attack on tor it's very easy to narrow you down to a few people.

>uses Google's JavaScript
Noscript enabled globally

Properly implemented HTTPS is good transport security.

>Similar to what they did with Facebook, they said fuck this nsa bullshit and made their own.
Facebook clones in Russia and China don't exist because NSA has some control of them, they exist because they are under complete control of the government. VK is full of CP and they don't fucking care because they are after political opponents, not pedos.

How do you know its full of CP? Have you been looking?

There are reports and papers talking about it. Just like there are reports and papers on CP sites on the deep web.

How are you posting here then

>adblocker
pretty much, yeah, except it doesnt even do that.
>muh drug trafficking
oh so youre a retard. fuck off.

Dumb normalfag.