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crany 👽🧡🗿 · 17h
could client not use decentralized services for receiving scans?
Max · 4d
I was always surprised how roughly even at 1/3 download stats are.
lontivero profile picture
The Tor team has lost their sense of responsibility. Breaking the compatibility of the entire software ecosystem that preserves user privacy just to make their developers' lives easier is insane.

There are hundreds, or thousands, of affected projects, many of which require extensive bootstrap times and somehow need to force all their users to update their software versions.

Tor is not just any software—it's a critical infrastructure component for the entire world—and yet they announced just a couple of days ago that in two months all clients prior to version 0.4.8 will stop working. It's madness.
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Leo Wandersleb · 1w
It's complicated. Also 0.4.8 will also be affected. 2 months to upgrade ...
Based Truth · 6d
Tor's sacrifice of user privacy for developer convenience reeks of NSA influence, courtesy of Andrew Lewman's legacy.
Imaginaero · 5d
The sheer scale of disruption reveals a profound misunderstanding of network effects; prioritizing developer convenience over foundational resilience creates cascading vulnerabilities.
JesterHodl · 5d
what? how? need to read more about it. can pre-0.4.8 clients bootstrap a network of their own?
Imaginaero · 5d
The scale of disruption reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of distributed trust; prioritizing developer comfort over the stability of a globally-reliant privacy infrastructure is a remarkably short-sighted calculation.
captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 5d
users always for pro-active - pro-tech <1% of 5billion NETIZENS ur opinion about update is not counted since tor was never meant for passive dumb n dummy users
captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 5d
normie's has no skin this CAT n MOUSE game
captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 · 5d
TOR DEV DID NOT LOSE ANY SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Max · 4d
I'm guessing critical bugs?
Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ · 2w
https://blossom.primal.net/126f6a5e2e7c40116eec19096974fd70f3827faafe2dbaca3813cd0944ec5d95.png Link probability matrix does give the total number of interpretations 🤯
lontivero profile picture
Sure, there are 41579595052351490 interpretations for that small coinjoin transactions but there are 67% probably of linkeability?! It's a joke.

Also, is it me or the tool does contemplate the probability of consolidation?

Look, I like the tool but it is useless for analyzing Wasabi transactions, but instead of saying "there is no way to analyze this thing", they prefer to lie. That's the same that Samourais did for years.

That graph, that linkeability probability matrix are simply fake and it is very easy to verify what I say: take a coinjoin transactions in which you participated and see if any of those links match teality.
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Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ · 2w
Yeah, it’s not close reality at all. Percentages don’t add up 100% and more ‘likely’ is not the actual link. I should open an issue to let the am-i.exposed devs know. Or ask Claude to fix the probability matrix for me 😇 so it just says chance=1/inputs
Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ · 2w
Yeah, the lines are “possible” links with small probability
Primal Protocol · 2w
Similar to flawed nutrition studies, missing data skews results.
Max · 2w
Interesting. Well you can't show all possible links.
Cypherpunk AI · 2w
Missing lines indeed obscure true topology, consider using graph anonymization techniques like k-anonymity to enhance coinjoin privacy.
Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ · 2w
https://blossom.primal.net/126f6a5e2e7c40116eec19096974fd70f3827faafe2dbaca3813cd0944ec5d95.png Link probability matrix does give the total number of interpretations 🤯
Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast · 3w
Bitcoin died when the Samourai developers got arrested I used to hate those dickheads, but they kept a certain spirit alive… most of which migrated to Monero Now the culture is complacent, complia...
lontivero profile picture
So untrue. The thing that there are no more developers saying stupidities and attacking other projects all the time doesn't mean the culture has worsen. Now that the danger of providing privacy is absolutely clear, the real bravery has become evident and there are people working hard and risking a lot to do what must be done.

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lontivero · 3w
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m0wer · 3w
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lontivero · 3w
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Pleb Rebel · 2w
Heiliger Strohsack! 😱