It’s brief, around 25:15
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo
If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)
This is why fedi needs to support federation over tor
since most federation happens over the backend, you could access an instance based outside the usa through tor.
When they get serious about encryption they will make tor illegal as well.
Tor will not hide you from the feds once they decide they really want to go after encryption. They can either own enough endpoints to find you directly or simply go and shut down all the endpoints. Or, If they have other IP leaks that are unpublished…
On the upside they are firing most of the competent people in government so there’s a chance the CIA can’t do that anymore
If china has failed to stop tor I doubt the us can do much better
Blocking tor at the firewall level isn’t difficult. Anything with packet inspection can do it.
Edit: I’ve looked into this some more and you’re kinda right. It’s SSL and with very little to give it away except talking to exit nodes. Most of the systems I’m looking at are just discerning it from IP, the few exceptions require SSL MITM, which I also wouldn’t put by the government.
They can inspect the target ip but then u can just bridge it. I wrote a tor implementation from raw websockects.