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Carl Dong

@carl_dong

Building @obscuravpn ----- Past: @ChaincodeLabs, @Blockstream, 21, @UCBerkeley CS My Lightning-payable VPN service: https://t.co/4Hgrf7dwZd

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I'm BEYOND excited to finally announce Obscura. 🕶 @obscuravpn is a VPN I've been working on that offers Privacy-by-Design and can NEVER track your activity. Learn more and be the first to use Obscura! 🔗 obscuravpn.io (PGP encryption and Nostr DMs available) 1/🧵


👀 Check your inboxes folks!


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👀 Now would be a great time to make sure you're on our waitlist 👉 obscura.net Tor v3: …3zxmq4ztew7l2whmg7hkqaof2nzf7id.onion

Uhh friends, I think I may have cooked the cutest download page of all time?? 🥺



Shoutout to @JanAxelJonsson @ Mullvad who early on insisted on using GPG encryption for our correspondences. A true cypherpunk fighting the good fight! 👨‍💻 You should give him a follow!

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How TF did Twitter's algorithm know to show me this?? Wayyyy too oddly specific 🤯

Hermetic build systems…really? A man of your talents?

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TBF with the current way internet protocols work, it's relatively computationally expensive to differentiate DDoS-ing packets from benign ones. I often wonder if the WireGuard cookie trick can be applied: symmetric, stateless, zero-allocation, and stealthy!

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One of the biggest dangers facing the open internet is the increasing centralization of traffic by proxies, under the pretense of security. Security must happen at the origin, it can’t be outsourced. This preserves the freedom of the web and reduces the potential of a global…



In Windows 11, file explores YOU!

Microsoft's latest update for Windows 11 (with Copilot+) includes a feature called "Recall" that you might want to disable. The Recall records everything you do. This means it stores information like your passwords, browsing history, images, videos, messages, and emails. To…

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Lee Kuan Yew: Y’all just figuring this out?

Unpopular opinion: politicians and senior officials should be paid dramatically more. Congresspeople make $174k. The President makes $400k. 10x this to attract better talent and reduce the incentive to do favors in exchange for lavish private gigs after leaving office.



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In Google Chrome, web browses YOU!


I respect wanting to get user consent, but making the UX this shitty just gives a bad name to privacy, much like the current implementation of cookies in the EU. Making users associate "Privacy" with "Inconvenient" when it's wholly fixable does tremendous harm to the cause.

Just ran software update. Got this. Steve would have had an aneurysm.

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Free yourselves from C calling conventions! Stack frames are just garbage collection in disguise – CRUTCHES FOR WEAK PROGRAMMERS! Directly manipulate registers AS VON NEUMANN INTENDED!

design patterns are for midwits you should just reinvent the wheel from first principles every time you need it

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Discord being blocked in Russia and Turkey means we'll get a generation of absolutely cracked tunneling/VPN/obfuscation engineers from there in a few years. Just like what happened when China censored Google/Facebook/etc. x.com/Dexerto/status…

Discord has been blocked in Turkey

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no country or ISP has ANY business blocking access to websites, FULL STOP


All obfuscating transports agree: QUIC is the GOAT for bypassing deep packet inspection and resisting internet censorship. See also: github.com/apernet/hyster…, @obscuravpn

🇷🇺🚨 DPI bypass found for Discord RTC (enables voice channels) Confirmed working on my setup (zapret config) QUIC_PORTS=50000-65535 MODE_QUIC=1 NFQWS_OPT_DESYNC_QUIC="--dpi-desync=fake,tamper --dpi-desync-any-protocol" github.com/bol-van/zapret



This. And the same for sqlitebrowser too

the cycle continues

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This would be credible if: - We had ECH widely deployed today (SNI didn’t leak) - Network admins couldn’t block access to websites based on SNI leaks Which is to say this isn’t credible at all. x.com/carl_dong/stat…

Hi. Cybersecurity expert here. I'm tweeting this from a public Wi-Fi network without a VPN. I never use a VPN when using public Wi-Fi. VPN company security claims are (mostly) scams. They sponsor a lot of podcasts to promote their claims. #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth



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