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Globally routable addresses are bad for privacy.

chewehon US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers

The comments from DarkSide hint that law enforcement requested access to the payment server and transferred from there.

https://twitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/13932171157008302...

chewehon There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math

If it makes any difference, this piece led me to another one of her pieces covering an event directly involving my local community of which I was not previously aware, so I am thankful for that.

chewehon The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

Note that Obama's birth was a conspiracy around 2008, before 8chan existed. I would argue that "the Donald" on reddit was a driver of Trump's online popularity. This argument is not for striking down individual websites as much as it is for pervasive rumor-quashing.

One could look toward China's internet policy to measure the success of playing "whack-a-mole" at the rumor-level. Propaganda there still gets made and spread, it just stays online for minutes at a time before deletion, and so by the time people see it they have no way of asking for clarification on its truth.

chewehon There's another right to repair fight brewing in Massachusetts

Over $23 million paid by automakers funded these scummy advertisements. Thankfully we know this from campaign finance transparency. The ads say in fine print that they are paid for by the "Coalition for Safe and Secure Data" and that top donors include "the Alliance for Automotive Innovation."

A Coalition campaign finance report from 2020 [0] shows $23 million in receipts from the likes of Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and others.

Expenditures in that report show who is helping them produce these ads.

[0] https://www.ocpf.us/Reports/DisplayReport?menuHidden=true&id...

chewehon Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

>bombarding people in the west with this kind of content is a strategy from China

This is the premise of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "I Remember Babylon" (which was first published in Playboy in 1960).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Babylon

chewehon Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump’s false voting claims

As for similar opinions, see Stephen Colbert on "truthiness".

chewehon Port knocking

From knockknock:

> When you want to open a port from a client, you run 'knockknock', which sends a single SYN packet to the server. The packet's IP and TCP headers are encoded to represent an IND-CCA secure encrypted request to open a specified port from the source IP address.

https://moxie.org/software/knockknock/

chewehon Port knocking

Re: sniffing, if I were implementing port knocking I would use the "single packet authorization" variant like in knockknock, which makes sniffing much less useful to an attacker.