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Have you heard of yggdrasil then? It sounds like it would be a better match for your use candidate

yggdrasil is a "greynet". End-to-end encrypted, self-organizing via DHT, but no onion/garlic routing. Has interop capabilities with both Tor and I2P though, and some yggdrasil nodes are I2P- or Tor-only. A world-tree with roots (tunnels) going in all the spheres of existence (nets)

Hands out IPv6 addresses to its users. These addresses are generated automatically from the signature of your public key, so essentially impossible to spoof, and automatic authentication, plus end-to-end encryption. As if IPsec was pervasive and completely transparent

I2P has a community of people that actually use the darktubes, as opposed to Tor. 99% of Tor users use Tor to browse the vanilla internets just. There is no real 'Tor community'

Yeah. It's fortunate that we are not psychopaths hellbent on causing mayhem.

A far more effective way to sabotage the infrastructure would be to plant a bomb there, in the hole. It does not even have to be a functional bomb. It's enough to just make the repair technicians fear for their lives. It will take a lot of time for them to call a bomb disposal unit, and so on.

And then you repeat that a couple of times at random places. If you don't want to kill people, the first bombs should be duds, but occasionally some of the later bombs should be real, so they don't let down the guard, but learn to fear the repair jobs.

Then after that, EVERY SINGLE repair job, even when you didn't actually sabotage it yourself, would become super-expensive and take lots-and-lots of time.

After you trained them, you can lower the number of sabotages with mostly duds, and the occasional real bomb, to just once every couple of months. They still need to handle every single repair job as if you had been there. Minimal cost for you, maximized cost for them.

There. I optimized it for you.

If you are able of imagining the future, and capable of logical coherent thoughts, the statement "the need for quantum computers remains small" is just... damn narrow-minded and perhaps just plain stupid.

If you can shave off a factor n in O(n^3) then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y it will change the world. If you don't see the obviousness in this, then why are you working with computers?

Before you hate on me, did you even google "quantum computer"? Did you read the introduction section of the Wikipedia article?

Maybe the blockchain is meant for "offline" transactions, when neither part is in contact with the Main Server.

Disclaimer: I dont know

The reason for this is, among other things, systems programmers wrote the UIs in 1983. Today random twenty-years-old web-muppets write the UIs.

The system programmers of 1983 were used to low-level programming, and most of them had probably written code in assembler. Web programmers seldom have that deep understanding of the computer.

At least, this is true from my own personal experience.

Correct me if I am wrong, but...

If I just make sure that incomming packets that are destined for the VPN LAN are dropped, this attack does not work?

Of course there are such rules in our firewalls??

Is everyone walking around without any firewall filtering nowadays? How is this a bug? Maybe I am just stupid. Did I miss something?

The article essentially reads as "we payed lots of monies for a mediocre scanner, and then we discovered that the FOSS nmap did everything we needed. So we took nmap and added a little bit of extra, a web interface, and gave it the name Flan Scanner."

. . .

The corporate world is so facepalm sometimes

WHY

Proxychains and especially socat är really handy tools for borrowing through filtering firewalls.

Socat is somewhat difficult to use though. But IMHO the best one.

Power hierarchies are part of human nature. We always create them, the super-nodes.

This is not limited to computer networks. We do it with relationships as well, how many does not know of Madonna and Justin Bieber, compared to random Joe? Our very ideas and thoughts are subject to it as well.

There already exist meshing technology that counter our human nature and does not produce power hierarchies. Decentralized hashtables for example.

Maybe if we hand over the control to the machines, we could solve this problem. Pretty much noone wants that though... It's limited to some fringes of our society. The darknets (i2p more than Tor) it, and BitTorrent swarms. It works here, because the programmers never gave the users a choice.

The experience of ego-softening, or even complete ego-death, is something that some psychedelics bring to their users. LSD, mushrooms and especially DMT does this.

Many normal humans will not know that this experience is even possible, or might dismiss it straight off as humbo jumbo. (Many drug users that did the drugs just for fun will get this as a sort of surprise gift. Sometimes they dismiss it despite having experienced it, sadly.)

Once one have experienced this a couple of times, it is possible to learn whereto steer the mind during normal meditation. It is possible, although it requires skill, to come there with normal sober meditation.