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The officials of 30 years ago were even more clueless about this stuff than today's. It's cock up, not conspiracy.

We want standards rather than monopolies. Normies & politicians (who get their tech advice from big tech) often get the two confused.

We want an ecosystem of competition, built on standards.

The Bazaar, not the Cathedral.

The problem is the new party that could realistically get into government right now is Reform.

The best I can hope for is Corbyn's peals left leaning voters back from Reform. Realistically it's not going to win power, so if they split left even more, we are in trouble. Hopefully, this is also true of Reform by the time of an election, but right now, it's worrying.

Reform will be a disastrous government making even the Tories look professorial and caring.

If you right leaning, you basically vote Tory or Reform. If you left leaning you have more choices, some of which depend where you are. The left can't all agree on a party. The closest to that is Labour. Our voting system just isn't setup for this. It's unrepresentative at the best of times.

They should be being sued for doing anti repair tricks.

The guys exposing the anti repair tricks are the heroes here.

It's doesn't fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I've not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I'm using WireGuard.

Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.

It's not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It's the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.

Man in the middle can be part of it. It's just basically recording and sending stuff back. Generally I use WireGuard, but on unhygienic networks, were OpenVPN is warning about possible replay attacks, WireGuard doesn't work as well. Could be something else of course, but I've got one end. It's not constant or always.

To be honest, I've found WireGuard's performance is harmed more by replay attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.

Edit: missed the a in replay.

Easy enough to do when it's mega corps. They don't really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.

So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can't win. All very Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread".

If you care about this stuff:

UK: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: https://www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: https://my.fsfe.org/donate

There will be others too, those are just in my head's cache.

Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.

The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It's terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.

This ends with just another war on encryption.

When encryption is legal, they can't know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?

It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.

Couldn't agree more. Everyone should be hollowing about our voting system as it is at the root of so much of our political problems. That and the 2008 crash and 14 years of bad handling of it.

Shocking and completely unpredictable.....