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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BrentonPoke

      Yup Which is why it's great that all VPNs are run by such scrupulously honest people under such tight legal regulation, and they haven't been caught blatantly lying about this and completely fucking over their customers in the pasthttps://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/07/20/7-vpns-that-leaked-their-logs-the-logs-that-didnt-exist/ …

      1 reply 11 retweets 26 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      This is the whole general problem of trust, of course The law is supposed to be a tool we use to enable trust among strangers -- if a business cheats you and fucks you over, you're supposed to be able to call regulators on them, sue them in court

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      But that makes everything much, much harder when the whole point is the law *isn't* on your side, when the whole idea of the business is supposed to be protecting you from the government itself Who are you gonna call to complain when they dime you out

      2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      The whole thing on The Wire about Stringer Bell's doomed initiative to turn the drug trade into a more professional, responsible white-collar business "Are you taking notes on a fucking CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY"

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      I mean it's just like Look, if I were running this kind of VPN, I would absolutely keep logs The more I advertised I was the kind of VPN that didn't keep logs, the more I absolutely would keep logs The same reason a drug dealer absolutely does want dirt on their customers

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      Because I'm making myself the target for the feds to go after if they indeed decide to go after someone And if I actually keep my promises then I have nothing to hand over to them to keep my own ass out of trouble The VPN's incentives are completely opposed to their customers'

      2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      I think the point in the end is that VPNs are taking advantage of this middle-class consumer naivete The whole idea of their business is they're presenting themselves as someone you can trust on a personal level, someone altruistic who wants to fight for privacy for its own sake

      1 reply 6 retweets 20 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      And it's just like Why would you think that That's such an incredibly dangerous thing to think about anyone It's one of the oldest and most basic scams in the book "Listen, buddy, this is a shady business you're dealing in, let me take the risks for you"

      3 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

      Remember the whole big scandal when people found out the Tor network had been built by the US government in the first place, and that the NSA was actively using it as one of their most effective surveillance toolshttps://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ …

      2 replies 10 retweets 24 likes
    10. Brenton Poke‏ @BrentonPoke 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I figured people who used Tor knew about its history with the Navy. Never knew there was a "scandal".

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
      Replying to @BrentonPoke

      The Freedom Hosting and Silk Road busts were both really big deals, and both things that weren't really that big a surprise if you actually know how Tor works but took a lot of naive people off-guard

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

          Like, for those who don't know: Tor *anonymizes* online interactions but it does not *hide* online interactions All it is is a mask I'm wearing, it makes it impossible to trace my activity to my IP address and my physical computer Everything else you can still see

          1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke

          And, in fact, if you're running the Tor node yourself, you can actively see everything that's happening in that node You don't know who they are but the fact that they're using Tor means they're probably using it to do something illicit It's a perfect honeytrap

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
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        2. Brenton Poke‏ @BrentonPoke 25 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Well, I remember the silk road bust, but also wasn't really surprised. The NSA can uncover any target with a concerted effort, and those dark web drug markets were the kind of thing that *would* attract their attention.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Räv‏ @Eristae 25 Sep 2020
          Replying to @BrentonPoke @arthur_affect

          I'm unsettled by the number of people who don't get the difference in scale between themselves (a random individual operating in their free time) and the entire US government.

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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