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Fashtech is the more established term.

Fashware

I’d argue it’s not a question of intelligence but of network equipment. In many countries ISPs are private companies and there which complicates measures that require specialised equipment. Blocking DNS is basically free, routers can void IPs and IP ranges, broad checks for sequences in package payload are more expensive (scanning for Wireguard) and approaches to distinguish OpenVPN from other SSL even more.

I’d be careful with wireguard if VPN is illegal. OpenVPN has a SSL handshake. Wireguard has a Wireguard handshake.

OpenVPN fingerprinting exists too but it’s an actual effort. For Wireguard you just need tcpdump and a basic filter.

I think the Chinese VPN ban is a bit exaggerated

You can rent a server and run OpenVPN on that server on port 443. Maybe even with port sharing so that the server can act like a regular webserver too.

It’s easier to trace the traffic back to you if the server runs in your name but it’s pretty hard to tell that you are using VPN if you aren’t connecting to a known VPN provider.

The greens are a great cautionary tale against big tent politics.

I believe in the beginning no company was compliant, the courts didn’t want to destroy capitalism so they only fined the most egregious offenders and now courts are following the initial precedents and only convict in 1-2% of cases.

They are also keep ignoring earlier privacy laws so it’s not big surprise really.

Yeah the end of security updates severely exaggerated.

Is their censorship guy on sick leave?

Read the Maschinenfragment

I really don’t care about labelling AI as unintelligent. A calculator is intelligent for all I care. It’s a pretty arbitrary label originating from the desire of putting us above other species and others of the same species. I don’t think that general intelligence is a thing really.

Almost all casual AI views are split into two opposite positions: that it will overtake humans and take over the world (“singularity”), and that it has no intelligence at all and is a scam (“talking parrots”). Neither is correct.

I think you are mistaken in the assumption that those two positions are talking about the same thing. One is mostly talking possible potential, the other about currently existing systems.

edit: Part of the first position, and I think this is were it gets a bit cultish, aren’t talking about possible potential of AI but about inevitable outcomes. But still people talking about the singularity almost never mean currently existing AI.

I think we are going to need a bigger Hague

And they can do that based on the way your write text posts too, so probably not worth worrying about camera sensor fingerprinting too much.

Just don’t post about your insurrection plans on public forums in general, with or without photos.

The Harry Potter thing was EXIF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/07/harry-potter-and-digital-fingerprints

But pictures can also be traced back to a camera based on irregularities in the camera sensor https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tracing-photos-back-to-the-camera-that-snapped-them/

Unlike with the printers, there is probably no database of the CMOS sensor irregularities of all cameras ever made. But if you upload pictures under your government name and the take pictures with the same camera and share them anonymously, this could be traced back to you in theory.

My personal best is backslash in a json string in an env variable passed to bash in a docker container, in a batch file.

Tbf I caught a coworker make the same mistake but I’d much rather explain security to a human than to a machine.

Arguably e-privacy and gdpr require a reject all button.