Ah, thanks!
Would be awesome if you can pipe it through today and I'll get the setup tested and working for us before next episode 🙂
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This at least ups the ante, and if it's a smaller actor (like a competitor DNM or similar) it could stop it entirely due to costs.
Of course.
So what do you suggest? Give up and move on and don't even fight them?
If it's truly a state actor let's at least make their life more difficult.
Of course not, that would be fantastic!
I'm also all ears on the best way to do so while running Twitter Spaces, happy to take that over once I figure out a good setup.
Except an attacker now has to have access to many orders of magnitude more compute, while the hidden service can instantly verify PoW. Asymmetry FTW.
Honest clients do PoW once.
Please explain how PoW doesn't work as a measure of DDoS prevention, although of course it won't prevent it entirely. At worst it drastically increases costs for the attacker, at best it makes it prohibitive enough they stop altogether.
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Today we'll be getting into a topic we touched on last episode as a powerful tool to protect yourself - VPNs.
We'll talk what they are, how they work, and why you should be using one!
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VPNs often get a bad rap from a few of the malicious companies in that space with too large of a marketing budget, but they are immensely useful as a way to protect your internet activity from prying eyes. VPNs let you take back control of your online data.
As always we'll also upload this episode to our podcast feed later today, but we'd love to see many of you join live and get all of your questions answered on the topic of VPNs or internet privacy!
After tons of research and conversations with experts in the field of privacy I'm an "always on" VPN user.
Excited to break down why later today, and would love to answer your questions on the topic alongside #[1]
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A working network is the incentive, and the cost for a normal user is negligible, likely won't even notice PoW being done in the background at all.
For a service under heavy attack that ups the difficulty for the hidden service it may take a few seconds to connect initially but then just be like normal Tor browsing.
PoW is only done during circuit creation, not all the time.
Have many reasons to believe it will at least reduce the attack and make it drastically more expensive.
Would love to hear more reasoning behind such a dismissal, and especially any alternative approaches.
Did you know that the Tor Project is close to implementing proof-of-work as a method of DDoS prevention?
https://darkdot.com/articles/tor-ddos-leads-to-proof-of-work/
Their PoW algorithm was built by the same main developer as that of Monero (RandomX) and shares many similarities:
github.com/tevador/equix
Very excited to see this built out as it poses the most promising fix for the ongoing attack against the Tor network. The current (WIP) merge request for PoW support in Tor can be followed here:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/702
Open feed.
It's all "similarity" bot for pages.
Close feed 😅
Guess I'll come back tomorrow
P.S. Nostr was too of mind for our team in March, so there's a good bit of focus there 😉
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Yeah, down for maintenance 😢
Key thing that needs to be addressed is to somehow be able to auth without providing the same pubkey to every service to prevent trivial links between accounts.
Should be easy to do, but important to do from early on with something like Nostr login to allow aliasing!
No issues with IVPN so far but wouldn't be surprised if that changed soon.
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