“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

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  • they load some resource via the clearnet

    That means going through an exit node, which knows the clearnet address but not your IP address. Again that’s the point of the design.

    or WebRTC

    Then you didn’t have ‘Safest’ mode enabled

    one of the several other methods to squeeze an IP out of a browser

    1. Those are called bugs and they do happen but the question is who is attacking you. Assuming you are fully up to date, they are burning an 0day to do so.

    2. That’s why solutions like Tails, Whonix, and Qubes exist. Even if the browser is compromised, those OSes guard you against leakage.

    Q: What did Snowden use to walk out of NSA with gigabytes of national secrets?

    A: Tails on a USB stick (hidden in a Rubiks cube)




  • use some TOR browser bundle or something like that

    First, this was an I2P link not a Tor .onion link. They are different, non-interoperable anonymity protocols.

    Second, using Tor browser directly would be zero layers of sandbox. Running Tor browser inside a VM would be one layer of sandbox.

    someone trying to use JavaScript against you, or leverage other browser techniques to leak your IP

    Ummm… first the whole point of Tor and I2P both is that nobody knows your IP address. Not even the website operator. Not even the darknet node operators, except the entry node you initially connect to (it kind of has to know your IP address for that to work). And that entry node can see only your IP address – it has no idea what sites you connect to from there or what data you transmit.

    Lastly, if you’re taking the trouble to use Tor or I2P in the first place – turn off javascript. Or even better, just move the slider in Tor Browser to ‘Safest’ mode (why that isn’t the default has been the subject of a religious war, one where my side so far has lost, so you do have to do this manually)










    • Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864): ~30 million deaths, mostly civilian
    • American Civil War (1861–1865): about 620,000 soldiers died; disease accounted for a very large share. Deadliest war in U.S. history. Society has arguably still not recovered.
    • Rwandan genocide / civil war context (1994): ~800,000 killed in roughly 100 days, with extreme neighbor-on-neighbor violence (“they’re eating the cats!”)
    • Syrian civil war (2011–present): 300k+ civilian deaths … so far
    • Sudan civil war (2023–present): 13 million refugees, widespread hunger, health-system collapse

    What made them catastrophic?

    **Violence spread into civilian life. ** This meant famine, disease, refugees, and economic ruin kill civilians disproportionately.