If anarchists could agree on a policy they wouldn’t be anarchists.

Theres a comic about miscarriage called loss

and people have managed to turn it into a meme in the following format:

Nice try, but memetic symbols don’t work on me.

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They always could, they’re just more confident these days.

VPN will affect response time and that effect on response time is easily measurable.

I was like 3 paragraphs into a writeup about response times, latency, probabilities, etc but I realized you already have all the information and can’t be reasoned with.

You do know what I mean by “response time” right? The recieving computer gets the packets and sends word back. NOT the VPN node, the VPN is not unencrypting traffic to emulate a real computer, it’s instead just relaying the packets TO YOUR MACHINE. VPNs are not the perfect black box void immune to complicated analysis.

If you can prove where people aren’t then you can prove where they are.

Yeah there was a cool paper on Delay Response method by AbdelRahman Abdou with Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University called “CPV: Delay-Based Location Verification for the Internet”.

The other method I mentioned, checking packet size and general direction, would require accessing data along multiple stops before reaching the other endpoint with which to compare the sizes of encrypted data packets and use that to identify what is traveling where, which either has not been demonstrated or the companies utilizing it haven’t admitted to it, yet. It’s not a stretch to think it’s happening, though, with massive companies like AWS and CloudFlare or telecom giants like AT&T.

You say what I described is impossible but it’s been demonstrated by researchers such as “CPV: Delay-Based Location Verification for the Internet” by AbdelRahman Abdou with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University Ontario.

Furthermore, on top of that method, if a company has access to data from servers in multiple places along the chain between endpoints, then they can see that a series of packets of specific size are traveling in a specific direction, narrowing down the location of the other endpoint. A company like Amazon, whose AWS servers make up almost 30% of the internet.

One of the more convoluted methods to defeat this approach was to simply add more stops along the chain, fragment the encrypted data into multiple parts, and pass it along random paths to the endpoint. I believe, but I could be wrong, that Tor utilizes this method. The problem with that is: it’s slower.

Another thing that only very large companies can do is see the response time and compare packet size from different servers to narrow down your location, effectively defeating the VPN in a lot of cases.

Hypothetically, a specific amount of bytes gets sent to server B, response time indicates it was received 300 miles away which matches the response time of going from Server B to Server A where the user lives.

Of course it’s still important to use a VPN, if only because those big companies don’t want us to.

I KNEW IT. It feels good to have my suspicions validated like this. The biggest companies are the ones most hyped over useless AI, and it’s going to destroy them.

I am actually a social justice wizard, finally some recognition.

Sword of Bludgeoning

+5 impact damage -2 stab damage

Only 10% off, because pommel strikes are op

I don’t really call them lemmites, haven’t seen anybody else do so either, I think Lemmings has such a cool ring to it, very cute animals that travel in groups.

As for Piefed users if it’s competing with something that cute then my vote is Piefolk.

Would have been the smart move for business, too. Just don’t comply until everyone else caves and then sue the state for favoring some businesses.

Thank goodness, my John Deere side hustle was slowing down.

I wonder how this is going to effect stock prices. On one hand it’s bad, but on the other hand shareholders might not care that it’s bad.

Good, fuck reddit, anybody with an account should delete all comment history.

We had to, because your progression was deleted except for the score on the leaderboards between rounds. We also had to put coins in to play.