LibreTechni.ca
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 18 hours ago

VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can

www.cnet.com

external-link
message-square
17
fedilink
53
external-link

VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can

www.cnet.com

Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 18 hours ago
message-square
17
fedilink
Total anonymity online is impossible, and it’s dangerous to claim otherwise.
  • Liz@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    13 hours ago

    What’s I2P?

    • TehPers@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 hours ago

      More complicated Tor, but super cool. It uses garlic routing rather than onion routing to further anonymize packets.

      It’s worth reading into what it is (and especially those two terms) to get a better understanding.

    • TechnoCat@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      8 hours ago

      I suppose it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

Technology@beehaw.org

technology@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 302 users / day
  • 1.04K users / week
  • 2.55K users / month
  • 5.41K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 42.4K subscribers
  • 859 Posts
  • 6.12K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • rs5th@beehaw.org
  • coldredlight@beehaw.org
  • Leigh@beehaw.org
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org