Nah, I’m sure they’re digging through the trash for parts as we speak!

Yeah but we still only got 1/6th of it which sucks the truth is still hidden and lost forever.

He’s saying if enough people stop using firefox the base for all of those other ones (Firefox) won’t be able to be maintained and therefore will kill all the forks that you mentioned.

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I welcomed it when my daughter did it and thought it was funny.

I’d be much more concerned if it was like that trend of smoking tide pods or something like that. 6 7 is harmless.

Its like every older generation just doesn’t want kids to have fun, at all. A tale as old as time.

You might not be able to after this all fucks it up. Idk, its just the pessimist in me but I feel like this isn’t for the greater good

I guess it would be ok but this is something I want to leave on virtually 24/7 kind of thing and I feel like it would wear out parts on my desktop quicker. I mainly use it for gaming

I just don’t want to run it all the time due to wear and tear on the fans and GPU mainly because of all the heat. Its ventilated properly and all that but I usually fall asleep with the TV on so I feel like running it constantly all the time is going to wear out the parts quicker.

Not really but due to the current US administration I think Europe is realizing they need more of their own autonomy back. That’s why Germany and others are switching to open source options and I’m so glad to see it.

US Government: “Best we can do is fuck all of you.”

Ducks browser runs on chrome though I highly recommend using anything but that because it contributes to chromes monopoly over the web.

Really excited for Ladybird and to see what Servo ends up being used in. Sad to see what Firefox is doing.

Anyone remember Weeping Angel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

Just legalize it. Anything else is a waste of time

Yes in the shithole that is America this is how they operate.

If you can, stay far away from USA.

Yes but wasn’t an active mod just was put on the list like anyone could have been at the time.

The Pimp Daddy award that they gave the active mod of that subreddit though is much more problematic in my opinion because that was a decisive decision.

He wasn’t actually a mod of it like people say he was just part of the administration team at Reddit at that point and they awarded the mod of Jailbait a custom badge. Still super weird, but yes you’re right he was never a active mod there. (Edited for clarity)

He did edit comments made about himself though because his feewings got hurt which is completely unacceptable as well. Fuck Spez.

It makes perfect sense if you’re a greedy piece of shit with no morals and no care for the citizens you “represent”.

That’s pretty much every single person in the united states government. Like for real, almost all of them. Definitely the majority.

There’s only been like 3 times mainly that have been found out about publicly at least

OnionDuke Malware (2014)

Operation Onymous (2014)

Tor Exit Node Malware Campaign (2020)

So it can happen but doesn’t happen often and the people who pull it off usually have virtually unlimited funding to do it. For the common person its still safer than rawdogging the internet

That excerpt still says it was deployed to all the businesses listed above it, though. So yes it was being used however those businesses used it.

And yes closed source components are inescapable (and also a potential threat) unless you use something that is GNU certified and I don’t even think a lot of them can even run the current version of Tails but I havent researched it in awhile. Maybe could run Tor browser though but if my memory serves correctly even stuff that is GNU certified has some proprietary hardware in it.

But no, the irrationality here would be saying “because something is open source you should trust it automatically and ask no questions about it” which of course isn’t what you said but you implied that because something is open source its automatically to be trusted. And that’s not true.

I never said not to use TOR or implied that, I said (and you can look back at my comments and see) that just because something is open source doesn’t automatically mean it is safe and trustworthy. And I don’t think its irrational to say that.

This was all in response to someone pointing out that depending on what the person is using TOR for they should do more research about it and educate themselves on security of using it which is true.

Never just see open source and assume complete safety or trustworthiness. Which is something people who have never used TOR do all the time and why you see the points I made being brought up around the conversation constantly.

Open source doesn’t guarantee complete safety, you should still take other steps in addition to using open source to better enhance your privacy and security. TOR is great and I think OP and others interested should use it, but you should never blindly trust something just because it is open source and used a lot. Vulnerabilities can happen all the time, if they didn’t Tails wouldn’t ever need updated at all.

Alternatives (that I wouldn’t really recommend) do exist and since you mentioned how none were mentioned the two that come to mind first is i2p and Whonix although Whonix uses Tor routing but is an alternative to Tails I guess. Still wouldn’t recommend them over Tails though.

Jesus. Yeah I shouldn’t be surprised, they will take everything you have and more than you can make in a lifetime. I edited the original comment to reflect that number.