I hate the Internet and the people who own it

[Fomo Hoire]

yeah, it was a bit of a shock when i got emails screaming at me that people had logged into my account from Israel, then it dawned on me.

Some VPNs allow you to split your traffic so that some applications go through the VPN and others do through your regular internet.

I strongly recommend you take advantage of this feature if you have it, and maybe even install a KF specific browser to really isolate the FK traffic to the VPN.

Depending on your threat model, routing all your data through a VPN can be bad because if someone already has suspicions of 3 seemingly unrelated accounts all being you, and if they all suddenly connect from the same IP in Israel at the same time... Then they in tandem jump to the Netherlands and Ukraine after that, that's pretty solid evidence that all 3 accounts are the same device. And if one of those accounts is a professional business account, you've doxed your other two. And it's really easy to accidentally do connect from multiple accounts at the same time without realizing if you have any auto syncing going on, like an email client.

HOWEVER on the other end of the spectrum, funneling all your traffic over the clearnet except the one sensitive thing also makes it easy to identify you, as the times you're connected to the VPN will 1:1 correlate with the times your kiwi account is active. So you should toss some trivial things in your VPN activities as well.

 

[FrickleMyPickle]

There's some hope for resolution without escalating to retard war.

Thank god. Retard war stopped being fun about a month and a half ago.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I looked that up and it does not seem that they blocked 4chan for 3 whole years. AT&T did block 4chan temporarily for a few days after a customer complained that they were being DDoSed from what appeared to be from 4chan. Did the executive say three years or three days?

I heard 3 years but i may have misheard or he may of misspoke. I don't know why it would take 3 years to threaten to DDoS them. 3 days makes a lot more sense. Either way, I told him I had never heard of it and he mentioned some guy's name to look up on wikipedia as it was a fairly well known event. I'll hit him up again tomorrow and ask but I don't wanna bother him again today.

 

[namvata]

Too bad net neutrality no longer exists or we wouldn't be having these issues


*depending on what the issues are

limits on bandwidth allocation have nothing to do with centralized hosting services going down the wire (literally) to close service to websites they don't like. We didn't have "net neutrality" legislation before 2015 and we were just fine, in fact the internet was even BETTER back then was it not? Net neutrality regulations just make it so that ISPs can't throttle you, it doesn't make their service any less shitty, comcast is still the most hated company in the US. What the US ACTUALLY needs is to expand the criteria for "common carrier" to ISPs.

 

[AnOminous]

Do you know offhand if the by-the-gigabyte VPNs are general purpose? I think I saw one once, but it like... Forced you to live near their servers, and subscribe by game, because that VPN was focused on performance over privacy.

I can't immediately find one, although I think Windscribe used to have such a plan. You'll have to shop around as these don't seem to be being advertised on the usual dumb spammy top 10 lists. Sometimes they're buried in the plans menu. The VPNs that offer them don't seem eager to put the plans for their Jewiest customers right up front.

 

[siegemeister675]

limits on bandwidth allocation have nothing to do with centralized hosting services going down the wire (literally) to close service to websites they don't like. We didn't have "net neutrality" legislation before 2015 and we were just fine, in fact the internet was even BETTER back then was it not? Net neutrality regulations just make it so that ISPs can't throttle you, it doesn't make their service any less shitty, comcast is still the most hated company in the US. What the US ACTUALLY needs is to expand the criteria for "common carrier" to ISPs.

Net Neutrality as it was being pitched before Ajit Pai took over the FCC is a scam to get John Oliver to rally an army of NPC's into supporting a scheme by the big SAAS providers to bleed the ISP's. It has nothing to do with the problems we're having.

 

[AnOminous]

One of these intermediary networks, which connects large chunks of the internet to each other but doesn't directly connect to people like you at home, is blocking the Kiwifarms.

It's actually worse than that, as bad as that would be. The Company That Shall Not Be Named is not merely refusing to carry traffic to KF, it's actively sending malicious responses that claim there is no route, even when there is. It's effectively cyberterrorism by a Tier 1 provider.

Some VPNs allow you to split your traffic so that some applications go through the VPN and others do through your regular internet.

Slight warning to the especially paranoid:

If you use a feature like "kill switch," using split tunneling also disables this. Kill switch instantly kills all Internet connectivity if the VPN goes down for any reason. Split tunneling is incompatible with this in a number of clients.

I think you'd need a roll your own solution to fix this.

 

[fluxeon]

" Half the Internet is not routing to the Kiwi Farms. I am investigating why. Tor is still working.
The outage is affecting only Americans. This is now a mutt-free community. EUEUEU"

As a Britbong lurker I am coming out saying that it is not just Americans affected. I am a UK Vodafone fibre ISP customer and there has been no access to KF at all the last few days. I also use Brave browser with Tor and it has been excellent even to the .onion. Usually slow as treacle but actually quite snappy now.

I have PIA as a VPN and tried loads of countries and local nodes including Netherlands, Switzerland, Romania, Nigeria and none of them worked. UK PIA nodes did not work at all including UK London, but UK London-Streaming is the one that has been working great.

I can say that UK Vodafone is a tier 1 and a traceroute doesn't even go more than my router beyond 63.130.104.202
MAPs and their networks like those exposed by Vodafone should be hung on the wall for further investigation.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Linux network namespaces. Programming running in them are effectively sandboxed and don't even know of the other routes to get out. That's how I can have different programs use different TOR routes, a VPN and my normal network connection at the same time without even have to worry about anything leaking anywhere or going where it doesn't belong. Don't ask me about windows.

Also besides opsec worries, VPN IPs are very specific and webservers can easily know if something comes from a VPN (as opposed to from a residential IP) for many services like online banks, amazon etc. this is automatically a big red flag in their "something's fucky" scoring. I wouldn't do my regular Internet stuff like checking my bank account and buying postage stamps via VPN. You might spend your time finding the fire hydrant and getting locked out of random accounts.

 

[Athena Loves Kiwis]

One of their main lawyers is a transman... I think that may answer your question.

Chase Strangio | American Civil Liberties Union

Chase Strangio | American Civil Liberties Union

archived 4 Nov 2022 21:03:05 UTC

archive.ph

This is the ACLU now, trying to defeat a lawsuit filed by female prisoners in California who have the gall to not want to be raped:

https://reduxx.info/aclu-claims-males-females-do-not-exist-court-docs/

The ACLU can burn to the fucking ground.

Also, connecting via Amsterdam works for me.

 

[SenutiSolidus]

Some VPNs allow you to split your traffic so that some applications go through the VPN and others do through your regular internet.

I strongly recommend you take advantage of this feature if you have it, and maybe even install a KF specific browser to really isolate the FK traffic to the VPN.

Depending on your threat model, routing all your data through a VPN can be bad because if someone already has suspicions of 3 seemingly unrelated accounts all being you, and if they all suddenly connect from the same IP in Israel at the same time... Then they in tandem jump to the Netherlands and Ukraine after that, that's pretty solid evidence that all 3 accounts are the same device. And if one of those accounts is a professional business account, you've doxed your other two. And it's really easy to accidentally do connect from multiple accounts at the same time without realizing if you have any auto syncing going on, like an email client.

HOWEVER on the other end of the spectrum, funneling all your traffic over the clearnet except the one sensitive thing also makes it easy to identify you, as the times you're connected to the VPN will 1:1 correlate with the times your kiwi account is active. So you should toss some trivial things in your VPN activities as well.

Can NordVPN do this and if so, what's the setting? It would be really fucking useful to me if i could do everything else off VPN and just use the VPN for KF.

 

[Dona Morte]

Here is the state of my ongoing ordeal with my ISP Comcast.

I called sometime today as well.
Not much luck.
Will call back in a week.
Will try my mobile tomorrow.

 

[DrNow]

I use some basic free AppStore VPN on my phone and NordVPN works just fine.

It's actually worse than that, as bad as that would be. The Company That Shall Not Be Named is not merely refusing to carry traffic to KF, it's actively sending malicious responses that claim there is no route, even when there is. It's effectively cyberterrorism by a Tier 1 provider.

Slight warning to the especially paranoid:

If you use a feature like "kill switch," using split tunneling also disables this. Kill switch instantly kills all Internet connectivity if the VPN goes down for any reason. Split tunneling is incompatible with this in a number of clients.

I think you'd need a roll your own solution to fix this.

I keep saying it and it needs to be said; corporate accountability. People are calling their ISP’s, I’m gonna do the same tomorrow. We’ve only just started working towards getting these people tech bugmen to explain themselves. This would have been unthinkable less than a year ago.

I’m writing on this very subject and starting a basic website from scratch, as I said in the other thread, anybody who’s interested in networking and building something in preparation for the exit plan, just message me. In the face of adversity we should get creative, and ensure any ‘victory’ these scumbags and perverts have over the Internet is pretty much meaningless.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Even though https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...41/protecting-and-promoting-the-open-internet may not be in force anymore, your ISP may have the document that was established and setup. In it there should be a section about network management practices and blocking of traffic. Look for something like "does not block any lawful content"

Here's an example: https://www.neubeam.com/network-management-policy/

See also Open Internet Order and https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-24A1.docx

If you find that, you can reference that if needed, and they should respect it.

Sadly 1776hosting.com doesn't resolve anymore

 

[Stalphos Johnson]

Can NordVPN do this and if so, what's the setting? It would be really fucking useful to me if i could do everything else off VPN and just use the VPN for KF.

Yep, here's the guide.

 

[SenutiSolidus]

Many thanks!

Yep, here's the guide.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

No, that's a reason I've been hesitant about going and sending out emails or w/e.

If there's someone inside this company who's in with the trans hivemind they would have absolutely no qualms about quietly leaking any info they got. I'm not sure which protections would be appropriate/sane to take, because who exactly is behind the problem doesn't seem clear and this whole situation is very gay and stupid.


That's one advantage the kiwis have over their opponents, is that they're actually capable of passing as human beings and not emotionless bug people wearing skin suits.

Also we have our penises intact and don't LARP as women.

 

[AnOminous]

This is the ACLU now, trying to defeat a lawsuit filed by female prisoners in California who have the gall to not want to be raped:

Imagine a "civil liberties" group that is pro-rape.

 

[Smug Cat]

It's actually worse than that, as bad as that would be. The Company That Shall Not Be Named is not merely refusing to carry traffic to KF, it's actively sending malicious responses that claim there is no route, even when there is. It's effectively cyberterrorism by a Tier 1 provider.

Yeah, I went with "blocking" because I figure the average layman doesn't really care about the intricacies, just that said middleman asshole is the entire reason they need a VPN to view fat lady tiktoks. But you're not wrong. This is a severe abuse of the BGP protocol and should absolutely be treated as such.

 

[DoomSayer]

This is the ACLU now, trying to defeat a lawsuit filed by female prisoners in California who have the gall to not want to be raped:

View attachment 3796588

https://reduxx.info/aclu-claims-males-females-do-not-exist-court-docs/

The ACLU can burn to the fucking ground.

Also, connecting via Amsterdam works for me.

Fucking hell. This made my stomach turn a little.