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Comment · 2 years ago
I regularly go to Dark.fail[0] to get the latest .onions some sites are using, like the BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion
Just be careful out there. All I have to do is alter one letter for the BBC .onion and I can get phished/scammed/duped. For example, this is an altered .onion for BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7746uqd.onion
Can you spot the alteration?

[0] https://dark.fail/

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. No direct linking in order to protect against DNS leaks from accidental clicking in a clearnet browser.

How does the PGP verif work? I'm not used to it. There exists a tool here[1] but how does it all work?

[1] https://dark.fail/pgp

Comment · 2 years ago
I scooped up a bunch of non-smart HP printers from car boot sales over the years in preparation for this nonsense.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can determine if they're sloppy and just want the project rushed out the door. Kludgy code is actually fun to read.
Comment · 2 years ago
> and click a link to a site like Reddit

I have JS turned off in my main surfing profile and New Reddit performs badly and hides the content, unless you amend the URL to `old.reddit.com` so Reddit is not that accessible. I have JS turned off for privacy & security reasons. Reddit is basically fuck-you'ing those who enjoy their privacy.

Comment · 2 years ago
NSA are purple team (both red team and blue team), so they do defense aswell as offense. They need to sniff plaintext aswell as protect their own infra and IP with strong crypto standards like AES. The public also benefits from AES, often to the detriment of SIGINT efforts by the NSA, so there are caveats to this, and it's nuanced.

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