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>Organizations which have their own IP ranges can use them at Hetzner, too.

If you own the nodes you can just log the encrypted traffic with metadata like user IP (if its an entry-node, which requires a Guard-flag), source and destination Tor-node and timestamp to send it to a centralized logging server. No need to host them in the same rack.

The problem of three nodes being in one rack is traffic analysis of an external attacker, who doesn't own the nodes. If someone already owns the nodes it doesn't matter where they host them.. Using your own IP range for an attack would just be more complicated, less effective than just buying nodes worldwide and is an OPSEC risk.

So the only reason to run tor nodes on your own IP range on Hetzner servers is if you work together with an organization which has access to ISP and datacenter traffic and probably work together with the datacenter owner to attack Tor users through a correlation attack.

>Exit circuits are not the only type of circuit. Connections to onion services are sent over 6 nodes, not 3. You talked about 3 nodes, so I assumed you talk about the typical Guard or Bridge Node -> Mid-Node -> Exit-Node circuit. The only reason to have less nodes are single-hop onion services. They are an edge-case..

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Technological advances in the military sector are always very interesting and research into them is to be welcomed. From ARPANet to GPS, we have benefited greatly from this and despite the moral concerns of some, AI-controlled drone swarms and fully automated target acquisition are also very interesting and important developments that future armies will need for its defense.

Thorn and all its supporters should be branded for what they are: Enemies of the free world. Enemies of democracy and fighters for oppression and dystopian police states.

If you look at the developments in Hungary and Poland (or the polls in Austria), any form of surveillance will be just used as another vehicle to keep autocrats and would-be dictators in power.

I doubt that the election in Poland in 2023 would have turned out like this if the PiS had seamless protocols of the opposition's communication.

It's hard to believe that there are such stupid people, but all right. However, it's shocking that you only get 18 months in jail for attempted murder, while people in the past got over 5 years in jail for trivial crimes like copyright infringement.

C++ is memory-unsafe and a Google search will not always return the latest and safest features, but raw pointers and C-like code. As a beginner, you often don't realize this. Rust makes it a little more difficult for you with "unsafe" blocks and explicitly points this out to you.

>Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests.

I am surprised about the request for drug tests. Is this common in the US?

Except for high-security jobs, which are never possible remotely anyway, I have never heard of a client or employer asking for a drug test. If I got a request for a drug test, I would quit immediately. Even if I am sure it is negative, my private life is my business. Any attempt to control my private life I see as a personal attack.

Lenovo's repairability of their products has unfortunately dropped a lot and I hope they take it seriously and get back to the quality they used to have. I own several ThinkPads from the last 10 years. The older models were all very easy to repair.

I definitely won't be buying the new models anymore. I can live with the fact that socketed CPUs have been replaced with soldered ones due to aesthetics (thinner laptops), but soldered RAM is where my pain threshold is reached.

I still believe that quality products must be repairable. I consider everything else to be cheap, throwaway products. No matter how much money "premium brands" charge for their junk with glued battery, glued SSD and fixed RAM in recycled aluminium packaging.

OP here.

I agree with you. Web design doesn't seem to be the strength of the Whonix team.. and got worse over time.

Basically, you download a Virtualbox image, import it and then have a hardened Debian VM with Xfce UI & some privacy-friendly apps like Tor browser & a crypto wallet. The internet is slow (because of Tor) & tcp-only, but sufficient for most things. Virtualbox guest extensions are included and most things work out-of-the-box.