/g/ - Technology

>>403 (OP) 
>Does it even matter if there is no logging?
how can you be sure?

>>409
Well of course you can never be 100% sure. But that level of schizophrenia is crippling. Think of the tards who actually believe that Monero is a CIA asset, and with a single button they can see all the transactions. 
>le special tools they can find you with
I am a speck. They wouldnt waste their time on me.

There are two possible outcomes when a vpn advertises 'no logging'. Either A they actually are logging your ip address and traffic or B they aren't logging but if a government entity steps in they may be forced to for a brief period of time, think of protonmail exposing the location of an activist due to a court order.

As long as you go with a reputable company (Mullvad or iVPN), pay in crypto, and do not do something warranting the ire of ZOG you should be fine.

>>410
Exactly lmao, the irs did pay out that bounty for cracking monero but if you read the report it was just a compromised public daemon logging transactions. I don't think the schizos have a very good concept of how encryption actually works and the sheer compute power needed to decrypt every single transaction. I think many of the anti linux anti grapheneos anti monero shills are bad actors that would prefer you to stay as you are on purpose.

>>411
Mullvad is literally the only VPN worth trusting IMO. iVPN is a good second. Everything else is garbage. There was lokinet (not a VPN, also sadly not to be trusted anymore) and some dVPN solutions out there. More will come, most likely

>>411
Oh, also, you really, really shouldn't trust monero. It's actually dogshit on a technical level behind the scenes.

>>413
you cant leave a reply like this without a multi-paragraph explanation as to why.

>>413
despite it being the only currency that hid the transactions of it's users when the silk road got fucked.

>>414
>>415
I'll drop a simple, off the cuff example that anyone can understand, which hints to the absolute fuckery going on behind the scenes and why so many devs have dropped monero. 
>You know what all possible valid values for function X is
>There's two options to validate this:
A. A simple quadradic function which neatly describes all these values
B. Include every possible valid value, totaling >1MB, in every single block
Monero devs chose B. That's just one example, but the codebase is littered with similar issues. I'm not telling you to stop using monero, but you should assume that transactions aren't as anonymous as you think they are.

What the fuck does this even mean provide code examples. You're complaining because they didn't want to use a quadratic equation with finite results that can be reworked to narrow a number of possible transactions as supposed to including all values increasing obscurity at the cost of storage space? Explain how this is a bad thing.

At the end of the day asymmetric encryption has yet to be cracked so your point is irrelevant. Hell RSA 2048 cannot even be brute forced by modern super computers. When a monero user is arrested due to monero and not poor opsec i will resend my statement.

>>427
I gave you a simple example of an objectively dogshit design decision. If you do not understand what I said, or understand why it's bad, then throwing code before you or discussing potential attack vectors (e.g., output sybil attacks, bias selection bugs, bias in anonymity models) is fruitless. I'm not going to have a nonproductive conversation with you, have a nice day.

>>428
Your explanation was halfassed and I fail to believe anyone would be able to understand what you sent because it was taken out of context. Allow me to go through your comment once again. 

>We are solving for X
Option 1: x = a^2 + 2b + c
Option 2: for integer in [1, 2, 3...]: if integer == x ...

<Why your explaination was bad:
1. You assume the reader has the exact same amount of knowledge as you do and do not explain anything you send in detail.
2. Where do a b and c come from?
3. Why is a list of values inherently less secure than a quadratic equation?
4. How does this affect the encryption?
5. This is unrelated to a sybil attack and feds saturating the network with fake transactions.


I am not one to fedjacket but, what time is it in tel aviv?

>>412
Why Mullvad? I'm with Nord, but that's mostly a hangover from years ago.
Does Mullvad have servers that support SOCKS?

>>413
>>426
that's great. you can submit that and get a bug bounty for those glaring vulnerabilities you elude to
https://github.com/monero-project/meta/blob/master/VULNERABILITY_RESPONSE_PROCESS.md

>>508
Some of the issues in monero cannot be fixed due to the way the protocol was designed. If you want a fixed version, I'd have said oxen, but not anymore. DYR