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12:35 AM

@JourneymanGeek As much as I am loath to post something from Reddit... Is this true? teddit.net/r/TOR/comments/xl01ui/…

> The reason is the Singaporean government itself has set up such nodes in a bid to increase surveillance of its people and those in South East Asia.

I'm skeptical that the Singaporean government has the resources or expertise to do this at scale.

Journeyman Geek

12:46 AM

@forest resources and expertise? Possibly

you do realise we basically bought an instance of TIA years ago

and basically have tonnes of money

the motive?

I doubt it

also I can claim that elbonia's monitoring tor nodes - without something backing it up anyone can say anything

Expertise - we can buy/train

So, I don't know. Also it dosen't make sense

Also the government or its commercial arm own stakes in every single phone company

and I'm pretty sure if the ISD wanted to do something intrusive, we'd never know about it

(ISD - basically Singaporean civilian intelligence)

forest

1:06 AM

@JourneymanGeek That was my thought. Just thought I'd ask.

Journeyman Geek

Obviously I'm as trustworthy as any rando, but I'm honest enough to say "I don't know, but based on public information, I'd say maybe"

Next year? Possible

we're starting a seperate branch of ... sorta the military that basically picks up talented teenagers during conscription and trains them to be hackers

forest

@JourneymanGeek The thing is, running malicious guards requires a higher level of sophistication than I'd expect from them.

Malicious exits? Sure.

Journeyman Geek

@forest If our government felt they needed it, money is no issue

On the other hand, we suck at secrets

In theory you could probably dig around gbiz (government procurement system) and find stuff from the appropriate agencies

if they wanted to be secret squirrel - maybe MICA (Ministry of Communication and the arts) or whatever they call themselves this year

forest

There are better ways for them to spy on people than try to use malicious guards.

Journeyman Geek

Pretty much

Also

"I'm a foreigner working in a data center"

Anything even remotely secure needs a G50

(security clearance)

and they only hire locals

forest

1:23 AM

lel

Journeyman Geek

So - how would a foreigner know that a secret government surveillance project is being done?

"Despite my countless advices, my wife, who is also a foreigner and working as an activist for UN Human Rights Office, insists on using Tor with Microsoft Windows."

If I was the singaporean government, how many data center engineers would have wives working for the UNHCR in singapore?

no wait

UN human rights office?

ohchr.org/en/countries/asia-pacific-region

based in bangkok, slightly ironically

and the singapore government likely dosen't care unless she's active here

The story stinks

forest

1:46 AM

Yeah it does.

Journeyman Geek

admittedly

The Thais are an actual military dictatorship

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XKCD

3:42 AM

It's okay, I'm at 10%, so I'm good for another month or two.

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Journeyman Geek

11:47 AM

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