Lance Henderson > Quotes

“Freenet is unlike any other anonymizing beast on the entire internet. It takes quite a wizardly mind to crack its protection and to that, it is a bit like chess: easy to grasp the basics, long and difficult to become a master. Built in 2000, Freenet is a vast, encrypted datastore spanning thousands of connected computers across the globe, all distributing encrypted contents from one computer to another. To this end, it is somewhat similar to a P2P program like Emule. Except with eEule, every file, whether it mp3, rar or iso is out there in the open for”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“the only thing I can trust is my dusty old 486 in my attic with Ultima 7 still installed atop my 28.8k dialup modem, then it's safe to assume every commercial entity is jeopardized by the NSA.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“There are two types of security protocols that Freenet offers: Darknet and Openet.”
― Lance Henderson, Darknet: A Beginner’s Guide to Staying Anonymous: How to Be Invisible Book 1

“The USA now has a "guilty until proven innocent" legal system.”
― Lance Henderson, Invisibility Toolkit - 100 Ways to Disappear and How to Be Anonymous From Oppressive Governments, Stalkers & Criminals: How to Be Invisible and Disappear in Style

“He would dress a lot like Dilbert, only he'd be skinnier, and with a bumblebee-yellow pen and a clipboard. He'd have multiple facial tics and a quirky habit of raising a Vulcan eyebrow as if it were purely illogical to value privacy.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“It's always been my belief that you can never be sufficiently paranoid as far as protecting your freedom is concerned, since the”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“The only fix would be if the torrent application coders themselves rewrote their applications to work harmoniously with the Tor network, something they probably will not get around to doing anytime soon (and much to the glee of Tor developers).”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors. • Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password: Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“VeraCrypt main features: • Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. • Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. • Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication). • Encryption is automatic, real-time(on-the-fly) and transparent. • Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“The Thing OST”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“If you are asked about your work and you're a programmer, say you're a mail sorter down at the Post Office. They're not going to ask you about the latest Elvis stamp.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“Not kidding. Mention you use Tor and you may hear your interviewer ask: "I noticed you're a big fan of Tor. Could you elaborate on why you need to use an anonymizing service? We like transparency in our employees." Yes, I was actually asked this in an interview for a position that handled a lot of money. It came out of nowhere, but what really bothered me was the casual way it was asked, like every applicant should have something to hide if they desire anonymous communications. Maybe I was some rabid fan of Jason Bourne and up to no good. At any rate, they did not like my answer. "Because I value freedom.”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners

“For all intents and purposes, Tor is like a cloak of invisibility that shields you from the sight of all onlookers, unless you have accidentally ripped a hole in the cloak (i.e. turned on javascript). If you are thinking, "Wow, it might be cool to run BitTorrent through Tor so I won't get sued". A nice goal, except BitTorrent devs aren't falling over themselves to implement this feature with Tor, and the Tor network can't really handle the bandwidth anyway. You'll just make everyone else miserable by downloading those 720p Blu-Ray rips you can easily get from Usenet (and with SSL, you're not likely to get sued.)”
― Lance Henderson, Tor and the Deep Web: Bitcoin, DarkNet & Cryptocurrency (2 in 1 Book): Encryption & Online Privacy for Beginners