Occasionally the government does some things in the best interest of its citizens.
Always has been
Why is beehaw surfacing this 3 year old post for us?
@NightAuthor @Frederic so many old posts have been resurfacing lately…
Is it a flaw in the algorithm, or is it a failure to execute the algorithm at scale (which I guess would be a different type of flaw)
Oh I haven’t check the date, yup sometimes I have 2 or 3yo old posts in my feed…
I’ve been seeing a LOT of old posts from ALL the instances I’m federated with (I run a single user instance) ever since I updated my instance last week.
I have to browse by “New”
That’s a very old post but yeah, it is, so is Ghidra (a retro-engineering tool). A lot of people have had the exact same argument of “the NSA made it, it has to be evil!” but lots of security people dissected the code (the fact that it was made by the NSA probably made more people look through it in fact) and no backdoor has ever been found in years. It’s safe to use.
It’s safe to use.
That’s what they want you to think!
HTTP 404 🥲
They made it and they use it. So if they intentionally put a flaw in it that would be very stupid.
I mean, Tor was made by the Navy. I don’t know how much of the motivation is surveilance vs protecting operatives.
Wow was it really? I didn’t know that. What did they use it for
