Tootfinder

in case you want to run whois query via #TOR network in #rustlang here is a good example
https://

Wild idea:
#ActivityPub over #tor.
Single-user instances for sure. Like hosted from your home on your own #raspberrypi.
What could one do with that?

I have a brief story to tell: Earlier this week, a large DDoS attack against 2 out of our larger set of #Tor (@…) relays - which also act as stable HSDir nodes - has managed to partially interrupt Internet traffic for the whole #JKULinz. While the attack was not huge compared to others (peak traffic around 3-4 Gbit/s, well above 1M PPS), we suspect either a nation state actor or fairly well-funded organization for 3 reasons:
* The attack was more advanced than simply saturating the upstream with bandwidth/packets, but had proper handshakes with the Tor relays, trying to cause resource exhaustion on the application level (we have seen this pattern multiple times in the last 6 months, but this one was much more massive in terms of incoming packets).
* The attack was very targeted, affecting only 2 IPs out of 25, consistently over some time. This indicates that either the position in the HSDir or specific connections or hidden services that were relayed over those nodes were the target - but note that these are only guesses, we don't have hard data on the motivation of this targeting.
* The only motivations that come to mind are either de-anonymization attacks or take-downs of particular hidden services. These do not seem to be relevant for usual ransom DDoS botnet attackers, but more for political reasons.
We have some flow data and would be interested in doing more analysis. Any ideas or correlation with other data on Tor relay attacks welcome :)
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I get why some systems block access from #Tor exit nodes, but I've always wondered why the #Cisco homepage (www.cisco.com) is one of them.
Serious theories welcome. Non-serious also welcome if it'll get the attention of someone that can provide an authoritative explanation (or change this behavior).

Two former #Mississippi #deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their #cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and

Mississippi 'goon squad' officer gets 40 years for racist torture
A fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for his part in torturing two Black men. Christian Dedmon was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison. Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years hours earlier. Former deputies Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton were sentenced Tuesday. Two more former officers will learn their fates Thursday. All six white men pleaded guilty to federal charges in August. They admitted subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell P…

Weekend Reads
* Biography of Tor #Tor #IPv6 #IoT #DNS #Deepfake #RIR