#deanonymization

[orbitbrain]

New Deanonymization Attack Works on Major Browsers, Websites

New Deanonymization Attack Works on Major Browsers, Websites

Home › Privacy New Deanonymization Attack Works on Major Browsers, Websites By Ionut Arghire on July 18, 2022 Tweet Researchers with the New Jersey Institute of Technology have devised a new targeted deanonymization attack that relies on a cache side-channel and which they say is efficient on multiple architectures, operating systems, and browser versions, and works on major websites. As part of…

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#anonymity #attack #browser extension #cache side channel #deanonymization #targeted #web user

[gender-trash]

Same anon from yesterday who sent the robot talk: Yay I'm so glad you liked the robot talk/paper! It was indeed Yan Gu from the TRACE lab. Someone did ask/suggest to her that you could send the ship's sensing data to the robot so then the conditions would be known and she said 'yeah we thought about that, perhaps one day, but that's really more of a hypothetical/not feasible' In the talk she showed only the quadruped robot on the ship and it STRUGGLED. She also showed a video of a grad student pushing the Bipedal robot around with a glove on a stick - so he's also a professional robot torturer lol. (Sorry I have to be anon to talk about this, wish I could just respond to your post but that would tie my school to my blog 😬) Anyhow hope you have a good day!

how ELSE are we meant to see if the robots work other than via torment,

also with ship sensor data (in addition to the integration challenges) i would be SUPER worried about latency -- i know nothing abt this and should probably shut my mouth but like, if you get the ship sensor data tens of ms late you're kind of fucked :p probably best to just tape fiducials everywhere forever

ANYWAY tysm again for the pointer and i hope u have a good day too!!

#the trashcan speaks #professional robot torturer #also no worries i totally understand not wanting to deanonymize yourself too much!! #im probably. too lax abt that myself. but mostly i just dont want this blog to come up if you google me :/

[uhf-comm-pass]

Every so often, a space post pops up on my dashboard from some anonymous blog I followed way back during the Before Times, and I remember that I originally planned to only use this tumblr to talk about space.

#diagnostic event reports #yeah that didn't last #it turns out that most of the cool space things I could talk about are either: #a) illegal for me to talk about here #b) not technically illegal but still things that would get me fired #or c) would irreversibly deanonymize me #so I am a passive consumer of space content now #and the space blogs still I follow have been slowly crowded out by fandom blogs

[ubuntushell]

#Linux #Ubuntu #Proton #VPN #Privacy #Security #Deanonymize

[empresa-journal]

Can Arkham (ARKM) make money from Blockchain Surveillance?

Arkham (ARKM) was CoinMarketCap’s most trending cryptocurrency on 20 July 2023. Hence, many people will ask what is Arkham and does it have value? Arkham is a crypto intelligence platform that systematically analyzes and exposes blockchain transactions. They claim Arkham shows the people and organizations behind blockchain transactions. Thus, Arkham is a surveillance and tracking tool. Arkham…

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#A Solution for Monitoring Blockchain Activity #Arkham (ARKM) #Blockchain Surveillance #Can Arkham (ARKM) make money from Blockchain Surveillance? #Deanonymization is destiny #How Arkham Monetizes Data #What Value can Arkham (ARKM) offer?

[triviallytrue]

we're all on the same page that this is fucked, right? deanonymizing someone's side blogs because you're mad at them???

normally i wouldn't spread this kind of screenshot but she has it up on her twitter btw

[xenosagaepisodeone]

back in the 2000s when people would enact pseuicide (exactly what it sounds like), it was largely as a form of ego-defense. while it was sometimes elicited as a response to actual harassment, the lower stakes nature of interaction on the old net made it as common a play in disagreements as telling someone to kill themselves. a lot of the time, the user in question was unwilling to concede their position in some particular discourse or their status/power in a particular community, but was also left dissonant by the fact that they had no unilateral control over how others saw them, or how others felt. a pseuicide would in this case allow the user to retract an internet persona that had been turned into a pathway way for the ego to be damaged by others while also preserving as much of it's integrity as possible by allowing the purported death to frame them as forever the victim of their interaction with their opps (with of course the intentional added effect of inflicting psychological anguish on them by making them believe they contributed to a suicide). the user would then rebrand under a different account and then rebuild their posting empire, completing the cycle of the pseuicide.

there's a reason why the term 'psueicide' has fallen out of vogue beyond the fact that it is a cruel way to regard the potential suicide of someone online. the deanonymization and userbase-fostered hypersurveillance of the modern net has done away with the low-stakes interactions of aughts forums that made it easy to just say "I'm going to kill myself" to a bunch of formless usernames; on top of just making it very difficult to disappear in general. how many people have you seen abandon their social media handles due to drama, harassment or stress, only to be found under a new persona a week later? you can scrub the internet of as much of your posting presence as you want, but you're going to have a harder time preventing friends, family and even strangers who happen upon you conceal details of your present status just by virtue of how normal it is to involve so much of how you spend real life in what you post online. the modern spectacle of posting makes most user's actions a new development in the narrative arc of their social media presence, and a suicide attempt (real or otherwise) will be milked for entertainment in accordance with such before it is examined for sympathy or used as a means of self-relfection.

you may think this post is about james somerton now that the news has come out that he is thankfully fine, but it's actually not! admittedly though, his attempted rebranding got me thinking about a few things, ultimately leading up to the thought "ah, you really can't say that you will kill yourself online like you used to.". where do you go when nuking everything and starting over is barely an option? well, outside I guess. perhaps to the woods.

[reorientation]

This might be random, but do you think the people sending you asks are generally truthful, or do they make up fictional kink scenarios? Like when they say they’re getting pregnant for kink, or stopping T for kink. I enjoy your blog, but sometimes those asks leave me a bit alarmed

I think they're generally truthful. In most cases, of course, I can't know for sure, but a number of anons have deanonymized themselves to me, and I think I have a fairly good sense for which personal accounts have the ring of truth, from reading plenty of true and "true" stories over the years.

That said, I think your worries are somewhat misplaced. When people tell true stories about themselves to a kink blog, they emphasize the kinky aspects and elide some of the more emotional and rational considerations.

For example, some people start playing with detrans kink as they're genuinely questioning their gender identity - using the kink as a way to explore some of that tension - and ultimately decide that they don't want to continue with the transition process; I know that one of my anons who said that she detransitioned "for the kink" is in this position. Some people want to have children with their partners, and don't mind having a feminine appearance for a while, and will phrase that as "I'm letting my boyfriend knock me up and turn me back into a woman". There's a lot of nuance that doesn't appear "on the screen".

Ultimately, I hope that all my anons are doing what will make them happy and fulfilled, but this (usually) isn't a therapy office - people come here to get off to the idea of making bad decisions for kink reasons, and often that means framing their life stories in the kinkiest ways possible.

#reor: reality #reor: blog meta

[rankheresy]

February 2024 writing competition

A new month, a new challenge! This month's challenge is:

Old man yaoi!

Whether it's a canonically geriatric couple, your babyfaced blorbos aged up, a songfic inspired by Eminem's "I'll be only person in the nursing home flirting", or you update your ongoing het ship fic with a sudden pivot where the male love interest decides to fuck a 60-year-old man instead: anything goes, so long as it's old, man, and yaoi.

Turn up that Simon and Garfunkel, and get writing!

Submit your fics here! (Or, if you update an old one, let us know so we can add it as a bookmark in the collection!)

Fics will be revealed on March 1st, and deanonymized on March 14th!

#rank heresy #rank heresy writing competitions #february 2024 writing competition

[olderthannetfic]

I don't know who/where else to ask, but would you or a follower happen to know why AO3 only allows posting anonymously if it is in a collection, instead of I dunno being a checkbox at publishing time? Also are anonymous collections safe from deanonymizing? ...of course, "asking for a friend", wink wink.

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AO3 was designed for temporary anonymity during a fic exchange only.

Culturally, anon posting was not something they wanted to encourage aside from secret santas and that kind of thing.

As is normal on every site, users have found interesting alternate uses for the available features, and that's cool. But don't expect AO3 to be super helpful about these uses.

If you put your work in an anon collection, the owner of that collection can see who you are. They can also de-anon the collection any time they want. Putting your work in two anon collections means it will stay anon even if one of the collections de-anons, but this also means two collection owners being able to see who you are.

In practice, the big anon collections show no signs of de-anoning, but if you want to be absolutely sure, you need to make a throwaway account to post your anon stuff with... or to run a new anon collection that you control.

[gender-trash]

it's SO!! transphobic that i'm not allowed to share goofy robot video bloopers from the work slack publicly and anyway i can't do it without deanonymizing myself TT__TT

anyway. please picture a humanoid tromping up to a robot cart, trying to pick up a box with an apriltag on it, and abjectly fumbling it

#the trashcan speaks #jorb #professional robot torturer

[uhf-comm-pass]

Here's the thing: every time something interesting happens at work, I really want to talk about it here, but I can't, because literally every detail of it is deanonymizing.

For example, today after I clocked out, I decided to swing by the viewing gallery at the [redacted] to see [redacted] while it [redacted]. And when I went there I ran into a really nice older woman who turned out to be the [redacted] of the [redacted] project, and she told me that it was the first time in her thirty-five year career here that she ever got to go into the [redacted] herself. She told me about the [redacted] that she [redacted] and how apparently they only had one camera that they could bring into the [redacted], so she had to keep [redacted] it from [redacted].

Then she also talked a bit about how it was one of her first times working on a project in [redacted], and how it was so different from working on a project in [redacted]. I mentioned that I'd only really been on projects in [redacted] myself, and then it turned out that apparently she has worked [redacted] on every single [redacted] that [redacted] has ever built! (Her first job here was working on [redacted], which I think is really cool!) I shared that I was now on [redacted], which is in [redacted], and she commented that that was really the time to be worrying about making sure we had enough [redacted] because we'd end up needing it later, but I commented that I actually I worked on [redacted] and so it was more about making sure that the [redacted] was [redacted] so we wouldn't hate ourselves five years down the line. But then when I was walking back to my car, I realized that maybe she was actually right, and all of the people who don't do [redacted] might better understand the issues my team encounters if I described our problem in terms of [redacted], such as by describing our [redacted] as a lack of "[redacted]", which was not a phrase I had ever heard anyone use before, but seemed like it might be explanatory!

And then on the drive home I realized that "[redacted]" might be more misleading in some ways, because it implies that we can measure it, but we don't actually know how to do that. So. Maybe that idea is out.

#diagnostic event reports #even this would be a little deanonymizing in combination with some other information #I am microdosing on revealing information about myself

[arrgh-whatever]

wow what the- tumblr just showed me my own post on my dashboard but it....deanonymized the anonymous??? is this a thing that happens??

#i feel like ive seen something i shouldn't have and now i feel guilty #what the hell tumblr

[ilthit]

We're currently in the middle of an unprecedented wave of governmental attempts worldwide to control social media through the legislative and regulatory process, often in the interests of protecting children. Unfortunately, the methods being proposed as a solution are dangerous and damaging to everyone. If you live in the US or UK and have a few minutes today, we at Dreamwidth would like to ask you to contact your elected officials and ask them to oppose several of the worst of the pending bills. If you live in the US: KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act, claims to be a bill that will protect children's privacy and restrict them from viewing harmful material. If you've followed our efforts to help overturn California's AB 2273, you likely already know the problems with KOSA, because they're the same problems: requiring websites to age-gate the internet will require every website to identify, deanonymize, and store information about every single one of their users, not just people under 18, to determine who shouldn't see content deemed "harmful to children". It also politicizes the question of what's "harmful to children" in ways that will disproportionally affect the marginalized. If you don't want to be forced to upload your government issued ID or subject yourself to unscientific, unvalidated, black-box biometric 'verification' every time you visit a website, learn more about the issues with the bill and then contact your elected officials to tell them you oppose its passage. If you live in the UK: The Online Safety Bill will criminalize a large amount of lawful speech, ban strong encryption, and empower Ofcom to block access to websites with no accountability and no recourse. Multiple providers and services have already said they'll stop offering services to UK residents if it passes, including Wikipedia and WhatsApp. Please take a moment to learn more about the issues with the bill and then contact your MP to tell them you oppose its passage. There are dozens of other terrible bills in various stages of the legislative process worldwide that will threaten your right to express yourself and hand the government the power to censor and deanonymize you online: those are only the two biggest threats right now. We will continue to do everything we can to contribute to the legal fights being fought by various organizations that are working to protect your right to be anonymous and speak freely on Dreamwidth and elsewhere online, but the best way to do that is to not have to have the legal fight in the first place. Please let your elected representatives know that you oppose efforts to require age verification to access content online and to force websites to engage in government-mandated censorship.

#dreamwidth #social media #kosa #online safety bill #legislation

[triviallytrue]

idk if this is answerable without self-doxxing but what kind of programming are you doing at your job?

also bonus question if you feel like answering: what does a programming job, like, look like? from the perspective of someone like me who has only written really tiny things for practice, things that are like, you know, a few dozen lines or whatever, it's hard to imagine. is there just this massive database of code and they're like "ok you're allowed to modify these parts, uh, implement this feature by next month"? is it like collaboratively editing a google doc? idk. I assume you're working on, you know, some kind of app or website or database or other kind of thing. where there's a fuckton of people and a fuckton of code. how do you keep it straight? etc.

Max asked this a while ago - I have a bit of a better handle on my job now. I'm a newish hire at a large tech company, and I could be loosely termed a "back-end software engineer."

So let's talk about it! When I was an undergrad I had a lot of questions of this type and no real sense of what my future job would look like, so I'm writing with the audience of my former self in mind here.

The fundamental unit of software development is the team. Large companies organize software developers into teams of 5-10 engineers (with the rare teams that are larger or smaller). My team has a set of goals, largely determined by my manager and my tech lead (the seniormost engineer on my team).

The software that my team is responsible for is organized into packages that my team "owns," meaning we are ultimately responsible for what goes into it. Before code anyone writes is merged into our packages and becomes production code, it goes through a process of code review, and since we "own" our packages, people on our team have to approve code that goes into them. Usually you only work on your team's packages, though if you have cross-team dependencies (and basically everyone does), you will occasionally write for another team and it gets approved by them.

Version control is done through git. I actually recommend everyone who works on large collaborative projects learn how to use git - I have, in the past, used git to manage a non-code project (writing math competition problems) in a way that was much more comfortable than other systems like google docs.

I'm not going to give an extensive explanation of git here, but the basic idea is that changes are organized into bundles called "commits," each of which has a one-sentence tagline you write to summarize your changes and also records that you are the author of said changes. There is a remote repository that stores all the production code, which you copy onto your local machine (your work laptop), you make edits on your work laptop, you commit your edits (and test them etc) and then make a code review/pull request/whatever you want to call it. If that is approved, the remote repository copies your changes, and those changes go into production.

There's a lot more to git than just that (branches! merging! rebasing! staging!) but that's good enough for a first glance.

Anyway, back to how we know what to do - my organization has priorities which are conveyed to my team primarily through my manager and tech lead. We then create projects to meet these priorities, which we break down into individual tasks. We then distribute these tasks among the developers on the team and track work using a sprint board, which is basically a list of what work is in progress, what its status is, and who is in charge of it. There are multiple approaches to project management - the most common (I think) is called Agile, whereas my team uses a different approach called Kanban.

There's a lot of other stuff that happens too - how we respond if there's a crisis of some sort, how we handle bugfixes on prior projects, etc. But this is software development at a glance. Happy to answer any followup questions (as long as they aren't too deanonymizing)

#coding

[thyrell]

haha ok sorry thanks for clearing that up. ive lost some friends bc snapchat is very easily traced and tracked by cops

yeah no its a fucking dogshit platform to do anything illegal, its completely insecure and deanonymized, but its also the #1 platform for smalltown plugs so im basically forced onto it. if you have any choice in the matter dont buy off snapchat