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Mullvad has proved it doesn't collect. It's laughable to even suggest it.

They have been raided multiple times, tons of audits, does bleeding edge research on privacy preserving tech, donates to GOS, etc etc. You don't see this kind of VPN company at all because none exists.

Is BGP safe yet? 3 months ago

certificate pinning (dangerous)

Dangerous how? Create a CAA record which pins your CA and only allow dns01 challenge. Problem solved, a BGP hijack can't issue a valid certificate for your site.

Is there any technical writeup which explains how the isolation exactly works, on containers and VMs? I have always heard the high level arguments of weak isolation, same kernel, etc but never the implementation details.

Krebs lack any sort of real credibility. He's pushing out slop with a govern-mentalist propaganda. Tech journalists are the worst form to gather any actual information.

It's 10, not 9. And there are severe problems with having a total of 10 DA be the essential source of truth for whole network. It would be trivial to DDoS the DAs and bring down the Tor network or at the very least, disrupt it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755.

It's the only complaint I have of the current state of Tor. Anyone should be able to run directory authority, regardless if you trust the operator or not (same as normal relays).

Ghidra by NSA 5 months ago

Almost every hobbyist reverse engineer uses cracked IDA which is easily available. I have never seen ghidra being recommended for serious work.

Ghidra by NSA 5 months ago

Can you be more specific? Is it getting easier to reverse rust and go, since I have read about it being the hardest to reverse.