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Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by toastal on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:35AM (#36733554)
Cood example: I needed to get voter information abroad in order to get a mail-in ballot, but the government website blocked all foreign origin connections.
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by Dah00n on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:18AM (#36733809)
How awful. Which country?
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by toastal on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:56AM (#36733995)
United States of America

an eagle screeches in the distance

Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by ghgr on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:08AM (#36734057)
Fun fact: the bald eagle scream heard in most movies and television shows is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/03/28/do-you-...

Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by toastal on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:11AM (#36734065)
Rewriting history is a part of our culture
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by hkt on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:35AM (#36736609)
I read about the long walk of the Navajo recently. You can say that again..
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by heywoodlh on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:04AM (#36734318)
This should be considered unconstitutional...
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by TechBro8615 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:44AM (#36734519)
Personally I think it should be illegal for government websites to even present you with a captcha, especially one from a hostile corporation like Google. But this is a battle I've long since quit fighting...
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by orangepurple on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:10AM (#36735854)
It doesn't matter anyway. They can claim a million mail in ballots and there is no way to verify it beyond "just trust us" which we clearly do not.
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by gruez on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:12AM (#36736376)
Can't you make the same argument for regular ballots?
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by chayesfss on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:21AM (#36734406)
Just tried to rescue one by my property, poor thing passed
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by RajT88 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @07:30AM (#36735598)
I knew this academically from a while back, but have seen it in the wild by my house where I have both hawks and bald eagles.

Late at night I also get those classic spooky owl noises (great horned owl).

Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by RajT88 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @07:28AM (#36735588)
I recently wanted to check the price of tickets on Ticketmaster. Got an error about me looking like a bot (this was clearnet from a foreign country). Same deal with Tor.

This is why we cannot have nice things. Ticketmaster wants to keep all the scalping on their platform and not anyone else's.

Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by technological on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:41AM (#36733926)
Just curious - Does VPN help in this case ? Or do you prefer Tor
Re:Tor is not just for anonymity by smashed on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:27AM (#36734138)
Tor exit nodes are also frequently blocked or severely scrutinized... I'm surprised it worked..

Maybe since it was official government affairs, any US ip address had to be let through no matter what.