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Please don't block tor (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by twistypencil@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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I know you all are dealing with DDoS and how that goes. I run DDoS mitigation for some juicy targets and do a lot of on-call response to handle those issues, so believe me when I say I know what you are dealing with.

However, that being said, it appears you are blocking tor exit nodes with a 403, likely at your web termination point (nginx, apache, whatever), and this kind of sucks.

I get that tor can bring some attacks, and I fully support a modulated response to those attacks, preferably one with a reasonable time decay, but please don't just block all of tor

Alternatively, be one of the cool kids, and setup an onion service for lemmy.world!

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[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who are the admin team of lemmy.world? From a quick glance, at least a few of the staff have photos (whether that is them or not is anyone's guess).
What are their political backgrounds?
How likely are they to stand up against an aggressive government who wants information on people who are circumventing an abortion ban?
How likely are they to assist said government?

And, most importantly

Even if you have satisfactory answers to all of the above, how much do you trust that the new sysadmins that are being recruited meet the same requirements?

The fediverse is amazing as a tool to decouple social media and discourse from corporations (even if that can be coopted. Facebook is already trying). It is a HORRIBLE tool from an infosec perspective. Because instance admins can more or less see EVERYTHING you do. And even if you trust your own instance, you have no guarantees that the PMs you are sending a user on a different instance are protected either.

So, like I said in the other post you ignored after seeing one sentence, if you are doing ANYTHING where the government or even the general public finding out can hurt you: Don't fucking do it on Lemmy.

This reminds me way too much of bitcoin back in the day. People figured that because it was not "controlled" by credit card companies and governments that they were fully anonymous. When the reality was that the ledger is public record and you don't even need a warrant to search through it. And even if you are smart enough to use a tumbler or five: There is a reason that so much funding went in to graph analysis, if you catch my drift.

And just to make it clear. This is not any shade whatsoever being thrown at the lemmy.world admin team. You folk are doing great, thanks.

The point is more: I don't know you. Why would I trust you with my personal and private secrets. Especially if they can have negative repercussions on my life if they get out. And, just the same, I don't expect you to ask me to hold on to your credit card and social security card while you go get some blow or whatever.