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The Economist interviewed Steve Bannon last week

He was very upfront and plain about it: Trump will run for a 3rd term, he will win the election. This needs to be done because America is “under attack”. And if it is prevented, it is subversion of the Will of the People.

Alarm bell ringing turned up to 11

Much like there’s going to be a dollar collapse and skyrocketing Gold … they’ve been predicting it for 20 years, now they are finally making it happen

See yesterday’s Economist interview with Bannon . He literally says Trump will serve a 3rd term, and that his definition of “winning” is that MAGA control all institutions in the country, permanently.

I know that sounds hyperbolic but it’s pretty much a direct quote

I’m not into sports. Never watched a World Series game before in my life.

Now I can’t frickin’ wait! I plan to go to a bar and watch. Preferably a MAGA infestation zone. I wanna hear them howl sweet MAGA tears

sounds… hot

I’d be interested to see accessing .onions versus using exit nodes. I’d bet the latter is where most of the issues are. ie, I bet you the BBC onion works a zillion times better than https://www.bbc.com/

A lot depends on your Tor circuit. There are lots of very slow Snowflake nodes (FWIW I operate on an a VPS with high bandwidth and ~98% uptime)

There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.

I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.

It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”

But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.

Source for this assertion?

China blocks old style bridges like obfs-4. They recently managed to detect some snowflake bridges, but again only against individually targeted users – they can’t find “all Tor users in Shanghai” for example.

I suggest some background reading

https://harpia.pages.torproject.net/support/censorship/connecting-from-china/

suspicion of using a VPN or Tor

My point is that using a VPN is trivially easy to detect, and can be en masse, dragnet style

Tor usage (especially with a bridge) is difficult or impossible to detect, even for nation-states, and to the best of my knowledge is only tractable against specific targeted individuals/machines. It’s not possible to “get a list of all suspected Tor bridge users”, even if you are an ISP

Tor Exit Nodes

Good point. The moment you leave Tor, you lose a lot of its protection.

In theory, exit nodes should completely hide the connection between you the end user and what goes thru the exit node. In practice, exit nodes can leak metadata/side channel info. And they are always susceptible to global network analysis that nation-states are able to use (albeit as far as I know only against targeted individuals, not in mass-surveillance mode)

Tor won’t be affected by this.

Tor bridges are virtually impossible for even major governments to detect, much less block.

Unfortunately it works like any other prohibition: when the regulated legal market goes away, the hard stuff takes over

Hard to tell if foreign adversaries, patriots, or both

That was a good summary

Some of us want to be known as being opposed to fascism

Genius military strategists haven’t heard of the Streisand Effect

Love my pinhole but it can’t stop YT ads

Say what you will about capitalism, but I do deeply appreciate the fact that “learned the hard way” involves purely economic decisions and no actual threats of violence

TY. super appreciate comments like this from people who’ve already done the work and tried stuff out