alakey

DNS blocking is a paper wall indeed. However, this is just a step one. VPNs are already a target, so this will help them with justifying step 2 - introducing DPI to monitor all traffic and proactively block new VPNs and other obfuscation methods. Step 3 is more or less final, it’s when they realize this is also not quite as efficient as they’d like and they’ll get tired of the constant cat and mouse game, so the solution would have to be whitelisting approved websites and blocking everything else. It’s amazing for billionaires and their corpos as that makes it nearly impossible for new projects to enter the market, and it’s great for governments that desperately want to be authoritarian, but pesky constitutions, privacy laws and some such are getting in the way.

Ahhhh, there comes the american own great firewall, fantastic…

Wonder if we will suddenly see this same bullshit pop up in all the pro age verification countries now or a tad later to make it less obvious.

If your government knows that the IP belongs to a Tor bridge - how do they not know you connected to a Tor bridge?

Downsides:

• websites will entirely reject your connection in 80% of cases, the rest will throw a captcha at you at every single step
• some websites that require a login will ban your account on creation with a Tor IP
• regardless of whether or not you use bridges or obfuscated nodes your government does absolutely know you are using Tor, lol, you are connecting to Tor bridges, oppressive governments especially are monitoring them 24/7 and blocking new ones as they pop up
• there’s a risk that the node you connected to is literally ran by your government (or someone else malicious)

I appreciate you running a node yourself and potentially helping some people at least get some connection when no other alternative works, but don’t downplay the severity of proper state surveillance.

That’s actually part of the motivation behind russian internet isolation, their head bitch leading the charge on it believes that the internet “violates the existence of borders in the world”.

First 4 are disabled on unsupported systems anyway (4 is also sometimes disabled to squeeze out gaming performance), but 5 is scary as hell.

Rufus can still bypass every single W11 requirement and automatically complete the setup for you, including a local account.

Definitely a performance problem, no HW acceleration on PC produces the same insanely stuttery scroll.

While the increase is not a huge deal because the total is still cheaper than alternatives, the thing that irks me is how they did indeed just announce it via a blog post titled “Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone”. This reads like there’s going to be free, premium and premium+ at best, and “we are just adding more stuff to the premium” at worst, not implying a price bump, at least to me. I did not get my renewal email yet, so can’t confirm whether or not they don’t even mention the annual price, but rather just the monthly one. Another thing that kind of bothers me is that they list “Vault health alerts” as a new thing, while it’s always been there. While “Phishing blocker” just seems like a feature outside of the scope of a password manager.

All in all, double the price in exchange for x5 more storage and x2 more hardware keys is fine to me, but I hope they improve their communication and actually properly inform users of upcoming pricing changes.

And have you tried running said built-in wireguard on ISPs that block it? Spoiler: you can’t.

Ultimately the end goal is going to become using whitelists, as what some of the aforementioned countries have implemented/are implementing as we speak. Do not delude yourself into thinking that just because there will be at least some way to send a very short, lightweight message out into the world and receive a similarly small response while remaining undetected, then it has to mean that you as an everyday Joe will be able to browse yourfavourite.site as if it didn’t get blocked. Stop this while you still can, don’t count on incompetence or existing circumvention methods.

Ironically the install ISO actually went up in size from roughly 5.5GB to 7.5GB in the recent months.