And there’s your problem. You’re echo
ing using double quotes which will interpret characters. Don’t do that. That’s a bug. cat
or cp
the file to the destination; printf
if the contents are all in that variable.
Here’s what I’m reading:
startup-script
line 27 threw the error.
I’m reading this and interpreting that line 27 of that script is
sudo echo "# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"
I am confused why there is no trailing double quote, the last 3 chars should be \""
so perhaps this is a bad assumption but the best I can do with the available information.
So the fix here is to change startup-script
line 27 so that you’re not echo
ing things that might contain characters that might be interpreted by echo or your shell.
Now if startup-script
is provided by your distro, there may be a reason that it’s using echo, but I will tell you now whatever dipshit reason they provide they’re fucking wrong because EXHIBIT A:
# "
fucks the script and rule 0 of linux is “don’t break userspace”.
Everything else allows any printable char after the #
in a comment, that script is not special, comments are not to be interpreted by the program. That is a show-stopping bug in startup-script
and must be fixed.
EOF
i think the real error was that you started the echo with a double quote and ended with a single quote. had you properly wrapped it with single quotes it would have worked. even if you had escaped the double quote, there still would have been an error because you’d have a multi-line string with no ending "
(the 2nd double quote was properly escaped so that would not have terminated your string)
Also, you didn’t escape your slashes.
Either it should have looked like this:
echo '# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"'
or this:
echo "# FYI quotes(\") must be escaped with \\ like \\\""
Don’t forget the best place to whistleblow and/or change the system is from within. Privacy minded people can better influence what policies and practices happen at a company when they work there.
uBlock is a content filter. Cookies are set when a server responds to a web (http/https) request. So if uBlock has a domain blocked, not only are any cookies blocked, but no requests make it to that domain (whatever.com) at all.
If a domain is not blocked by uBlock Origin’s filters, then cookies are set per your browser’s configuration. Firefox I believe blocks some 3rd party tracking cookies by default, but can be configured to block all third-party cookies as well, but this may break site functionality like single sign-on.
The internet rando that caused me to make this meme
It’s already trivial to see that you’re connecting. You’re not making anything at all more difficult for state level actors, just yourself.
There’s no point in hiding the transaction. A state level actor will see that you’re connecting to the Mullvad VPN addresses and won’t need to check your credit card statement to determine that you’re using it.
I understand the concerns of privacy, but working in academia means that you give up some of the privacy.
Yes people will have your real name and they will know what college you work at and if some crazy person decides that they want to stalk you on campus because you’re woke or part of the deep state turning the frogs gay with chemicals they’ll be able to easily do that.
You’re gonna have 100s of strangers in your classes during the year. You’re going to tell them exactly when you’re going to be in your office for office hours.
If you are unable to handle that I doubt academia is for you.
Academia is about furthering human knowledge especially a PhD. There are sacrifices involved; your privacy is probably one of them.
Part of being an academic is being available to discuss your publications. Your full name will not only be flying around the internet but recorded permanently in libraries and journals.
Science is about collaboration, and standing behind the work you do, publicly. You will find it extremely difficult or impossible to get your PhD without being known to the academic community.
I think you won’t find many anonymous scientific papers held in high regard.
The issueI have with the “always unique” plan is that if they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you. Imagine a TOTP where the keys were leaked so the adversary can determine the entire set of possible codes.
If everyone’s fingerprints always match each other’s, then you have plausible deniability.
The idea with anti-fingerprinting is the idea that no matter who you are or what your setup is, the fingerprint is created, it matches many, many other browsers
Imagine a sea of people in Guy Fawkes masks.
If your fingerprint is unique, that means you can’t be confused for someone else.
That is literally the opposite of anti-fingerprinting.
You want to look like 1000’s of other people, so they can’t prove it was you that visited a particular site and use that information against you.
Ah, didn’t realize pfSense is the OS, not something that runs on linux. My command examples won’t work for you.
So my first question is how can it be that my little mini J1900 Celeron (2 GHz) with 4 GB RAM cannot handle this bandwith?
sudo ethtool enp2s0 | egrep 'Speed|Duplex'
Your device name may be different from enp2s0
. use ip link
to see all devices. if it’s notSpeed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
then that’s probably a bad sign.
But this user plans to leave ping running all the time to check that their own Internet connection is working.
Either way, at any given time there’s tons of traffic leaving your network, it just means that software is active, not that a human is active. On top of that, Cloudflare probably isn’t selling the fact that an ICMP ping was received at their DNS server directly to spammers quickly enough for them to act and put an email at the top of your inbox, assuming that spam isn’t caught by a spam filter first.
If the other traffic is already correlated to your IP, then what additional info does an ICMP echo leak?
ICMP doesn’t reveal any personal details. As opposed to say when you visit with the web browser where you can be fingerprinted, and perhaps have that tied to the rest of your browsing history or real world identity.
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