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Oftentimes the government drops the case. When people get convicted for things they did on Tor, and don't settle, the government often drops the case so they don't have to reveal how they got information about activities on Tor.

When Germany, which doesn't play by the same rules, got DiDW and then Boystown, that was quite revealing on how authorities can break Tor.

Airlines can refuse to carry people whose name starts with a vowel, if they want to. That's a principle of free business.

Is Elon evil?

Trust... and encryption. That second one's quite important.

Ironically this page has censored me, it shows "Please wait while your request is being verified" indefinitely.

Not true, never was true. You can't write real code for either Linux or Windows without venturing into what C calls undefined behaviour, but Linux and Windows don't.

It did. Programming used to mean manual register allocation, and we don't do that any more.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

no, I'm sure many people are. Great powerful interests want that site shut down and there were many attempts to doxx and swat the owner. It's basically another Anna's Archive.

no info provided and nothing interesting leaked

A social contract towards a profit-maximizing corporation is not real. They are amoral entities with only one goal. The real implicit contract between you and a business is simple: they will do everything they can to make you give them money, and you will do everything you can to not give them money, or else you're a sucker. "Everything they can do" includes convincing you there's a social contract involved.

The centralized platform in open-web shopping is Google, which is how you discover shops.

technical solution to a social problem