Looks good.
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Wiki History - I am not sure we should host such level of technical detail. Time consuming to review / maintain. Perhaps a case for Template:Contributor - Whonix?
I added that - not time-consuming IMO. Just needs keeping up with Tor blog posts (which I do already) when they mention it again in the future.
It also answers questions from anybody who talks about not being able to access Tor without bridges - the reason is their location is using active probing (probably), whch means their only hope is using obfs4 or other protocols.
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To not delay further the publishing of your material, having looked at pages that have Creative Common-licensed material on the Internet, I believe all you have to do is the following:
- Add this as a footer on relevant pages on your website: Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International License.
- Embed the following link in the footer: Deed - Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons
That’s it.
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Footer further simplified.
Would I have to put it in all pages or could I just add some text in the about section of the home page to say that everything on the site is licensed under it? My website doesn’t really have a footer and I don’t want it to look out of place.
Also, I’ve overhauled most of my articles now, primarily the Linux and Firefox ones.
- The default is copyrighted.
- A non-default, opt-in is copyrighted and licensed under […].
So yeah, it needs to be on every page. [1]
That’s why Linux uses the SPDX license identifier for every source file.
[1] You could also add the licensing as a [HTML] comment (SPDX?) on top of every source file?
[1] Quote GPLv2 license:
(File /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 on Debian systems.)
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
Related:
Can you find anywhere a HTML file with SPDX-License-Identifier? //cc @HulaHoop
Researching SPDX a bit it seems to me that the following would be correct:
This would have to be added to every file that shall be licensed:
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 -->
Here’s the nomenclature for SPDX and its exceptions for source files, not necessarily HTML though it could be adapted within the tags
https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/appendix-V-using-SPDX-short-identifiers-in-source-files/
Other choies to make it machine readable is using RDFA or json
https://spdx.dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2020/04/using_spdx_license_list_short_identifiers.pdf
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Seems like I guessed correctly.
Updated add SPDX-License-Identifier by adrelanos · Pull Request #20 · madaidans-insecurities/madaidans-insecurities.github.io · GitHub to also add copyright.
Some examples, though none HTML.
Background:
https://twitter.com/stmanfr/status/1410737408610496513
Documented just now:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Malware_and_Firmware_Trojans#Malware_Audit
Hmm… maybe we should review that StartPage recommendation in a couple of wiki pages (my bold).
Startpage Acquired by System1, Privacy One Group - Still Safe?
Recently there has been lots of talk about Startpage being acquired (or at least partially acquired) by a US company called Privacy One Group, which is a division of System1, a “data science” company that specializes in targeted advertising.
…
With that being said, my general rule here at Restore Privacy is to only recommend products and services that I would personally trust and use myself. Therefore I will not be recommending Startpage as a private search engine due to some lingering concerns I have. These concerns include:
- The fact that System1 has acquired a stake in Startpage and is not disclosing the details.
- The history and business model of System1, which includes gathering “as much data as possible” and profiling users for targeted ads.
- The board of directors change at Surfboard Holding BV, to appoint the System1 co-founder and an outside investor.
- The nine-month delay in alerting the public to these changes, and then announcing it as a “most recent” change.
- The contradictory business models of System1 and a truly private search engine.
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startpage has only 1 mention for Tor relay ban, that’s it? No special endorsement whatsoever. Also google cache is mentioned there. If we’re super strict at in that place then the user would have even less working options to view any websites that block Tor exists. At no time it’s implied that using such services improve privacy. Necessarily such workaround worsen privacy. Perhaps worth pointing that out and/or linking to * Unsubstantiated Conclusions?
We as a privacy by technology project should be careful and not get lost in endless debates on privacy by policy / legal / company valuation. Related:
- Criteria for Reviewing VPN Providers
- Distrusting Infrastructure
- Self-Hosting vs Third Party Hosting
- Server Privacy
- sdwdate Time Sources Criteria
- Local browser homepage for Tor Browser in Whonix - #101 by Patrick
I.e. which company bought which one, who are the people behind it.
It’s very complex. Often non-verifiable. Good arguments can be made for opposite viewpoints. I don’t think there can be a methodology that could be applied consistently.
Fair enough.
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New wiki page:
backgrounds: Lots of people in Whonix telegram / matrix ask about Whonix KVM. Questions such as “Do I really need vibr0?” I don’t know enough about KVM to get into that.
//cc @HulaHoop
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Yeah I prefer one place (here) to see all support topics and the answers are permanent and can be easily referred to in the future when the same questions pop up.
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new wiki page:
Background: The impression for new users keep sticking that Whonix invented all the thousands of packages or things like apt. Sometimes users discuss something in Whonix chat such as for example installation of packages also (not) available from Debian. Maybe not the best example. Or general security questions. In such cases I’d like to have a handy link to point out that more could be learnt my knowing it’s actually unspecific to Whonix.
Bug: The url is wiki/unspecific (to keep it easy to type) but the title should actually be Information Booster might be Available!. (Suggestions welcome.)
Bug reported: