Re: [security-discuss] gnuradio project DoS attacks GNU wget users

[hellekin]

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On 03/01/2017 05:03 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    That way, I am limited, when using wget, and wrong Tor exit
>    (hypothetically) to access the software. It is a clear limitation.
> 
> By the same logic, I am being refused by the GNU project and the FSF
> to install free software on a PDP-10 since they are not providing me
> with MLDEV access, or DECtapes.
> 

You can't reject a real use-case with a hypothetical use-case.  Tor
users have good reasons to be willing to protect their privacy, and this
is not your call to make.  This has nothing to do with some hypothetical
use-case for historical hardware.

The original poster is certainly shouting a bit too loudly about
GNUradio "DoSing" users.  But Cloudflare has been a real problem for
privacy and the decentralized Web.  It's only incidental that its
platform shields somehow content-sharing sites from MPAA and other
'Intellectual Property' racketeers.  But generally, Cloudflare
technology is an anti-privacy wall, and the GNU project, for
consistency, should not condone this service.

An easy reply to our anonymous friend would be to give him access to a
mirror site that does not use Cloudflare.  But I suppose a Tor user is
also savvy enough to find that themselves.  The problem here is the use
of Cloudflare--an anti-privacy service--to promote freedom.

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hk

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