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Re: "Question about the Small Web"
Tor can prevent traffic correlation well enough unless you're sending huge amounts of data. Especially if you're using onion sites. And if you're using a bridge from a foreign country, and you're being careful, you can avoid scrutiny. The people using it for this purpose are often being instructed on how to use it safely.
The main risk of Tor for criminals is that they assume it's some kind of magic invisibility cloak. Chances are they will mess up their opsec--most criminals aren't that smart--and I would guess that "dumb criminal using Tor at home" probably stands out more than "dumb criminal working on clearnet from a McDonalds."
Jan 18 · 3 weeks ago
Question about the Small Web — I'm not sure about a lot of the benifits of the small web. Like there's nothing to stop web crawlers from mining data and using LLMs to associate a user name to a legal name, there's very few people that share the same life story. I bet the archives in Textfiles.com has pointed what a kid said 35 years ago to his late 40's legal name by some Pinkertons. There's also nothing we can do about if one day there's spam like there's Spam in usenet now. There's also...
💬 TestUser · 19 comments · Jan 14 · 3 weeks ago · #bloat #privacy #spam