ShadowRebel

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[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The issue with WireGuard depends on your situation. So for low risk activities such as watching a Netflix video, it’s fine. It’s faster and convenience. However, people should be aware of the trade-offs associated with this:

There’s logging of IPs built into the identity of the users, such that it stores it in memory after the connection is closed. This is NOT an issue for low risk activity like video games, but IS an issue for Tor users as they change circuits every 10 minutes. Frequently VPN companies outsource their servers to the same third party servers as Tor VPS hosts and as other VPNs. For example, some well known VPNs, Mullvad and IVPN do share some of the same third party providers. And other providers don't have dedicated servers and use cloud VMs. Keeping your IP in memory from one Tor circuit to another with the same servers providers is a huge risk especially if it involves cloud hosting as it’s shared memory. Depending on the VPS or provider, it could overlap. The video further explains that there is no speed benefit to using WireGuard over OpenVPN with Tor. So you get no bonus for the risk.

There was other stuff covered in the video regarding UDP packets being more obvious to the ISP for a VPN useage, and the potential to put that through a UDP→TCP tunnel with a link to where to find that.

Future videos will have me in a smaller box in the corner, and larger graphics

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey thanks for your time. So I didn't realize this, but some of the self hosted simpleX servers need a code to enter if the person set it to require that. So a bunch of the URLs I had, turned out to reject off this code. We will be posting a self-hosted SMP server with the code shortly, I'll ping you here when it does

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

your argument is essentially you don't like me. so therefore I shouldn't be posting videos

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I suppose. But how's a website ever start then? Monero.town was once unknown to both of us

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm promoting a website. What are you doing of value other than shit posting anonymously from one of the socialist lemmy instances?

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the point was UDP is more easily trackable, especially under censorship conditions. And keeping the IP in memory is not so awesome for a Tor changing entrances when there's no benefit of speed.

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town -4 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Maybe the people who are upvoting this comment should actually watch the video before just being retarded

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town -2 points 2 years ago

It was compared with OpenVPN which by default does not store it in memory. And the obfiscation issue an alternative of UDP->TCP tunnel was linked in the video's description. And the alternatives of ShadowSocks and SagerNet were given. What's your problem that you gotta smear the video and encourage people to not even watch it?

[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] ShadowRebel@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for links

 

This article presents a mix of examples, some in which Big Tech just abuses the customer's lack of knowledge, but in other cases Big Tech acts illegally.

It's a real eye opener to learn how your medical data is being sold: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/big-tech-abuses-medical-privacy/

 

It seems like both the larger cryptocurrency community, as well as the FOSS community both just don’t get it. Cryptocurrency and Open Source are clearly related yet only the Monero community seems to give a shit.

FOSS community is so left-brain washed socialist that they are stuck in the money is evil and bitcoin is climate change. Crypto community is stuck in the no-adversaries mindset, as the SEC declares their products illegal but they use google, cloudflare, telegram, no understanding of any threat.

Monero & Linux are linked: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/cryptocurrency-ignores-open-source/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ShadowRebel@monero.town to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one
 

Some Bitcoin hodlers will say, "Who cares about privacy? Isn't Monero just for criminals?"

In this fun short video, we'll break down a few of replies you can give: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-monero/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ShadowRebel@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it's "end to end encrypted", but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
Send this video to your friend that asks why you won't join: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ShadowRebel@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

In this animated video, we discuss how Buffer Overflow attacks work and how GrapheneOS is better positioned to deal with them and overall privacy: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-grapheneos-is-more-secure/

 

Telegram is adopted widely by the “crypto community”. But Monero should not be apart of this, as it’s a centralized platform doing zero metadata protection and only encrypted on mobile. Here’s an excellent video you can send your friends who request you to message them on there: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-telegram-sucks/

 

You can do all the privacy measures in the world, but if the people you talk to are using spyware then it's all out the window. (literally Windows, get it?)

This video breaks down some of the basic reasons to switch to Linux so you can convince your friends: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-linux-beats-windows/

 

Why would you want to go to Youtube & Google to learn about Tor? Our beautifully animated video is on our own platform and will teach you the basic concepts behind Tor and what to avoid: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/how-tor-works/

 

Using Monero on a device with a spyware operating system defeats the point. Let's learn the basics of rejecting Google's surveillance and some different alternative Android operating systems: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/what-is-a-degoogled-phone/

 

I posted before a different video on "How Monero Works", but this one is on Why, and it uses a fast CDN now. I know some people complained about the speed before.

This video can be sent to some normie friends who won't get off Bitcoin: https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/why-monero/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ShadowRebel@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town
 

Our animator did an amazing job with conveying the concepts behind Monero. Ring Signatures, Stealth addresses, and how it hides the amounts. Tune in: https://privacyfreedom.net/w/x2rLzs3AeCxTXtCQ2u5rb7

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