FreeBSD forums and privacy

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Just a question for forums administrators.
What FreeBSD Forums has to do with cisa.gov ?
Visiting FreeBSD Forums send request to cisa.gov.
 
They probably record every packet sent to and from the forums so they can look for anything that says how bad systemd is.

I'm just kidding; are you saying that if you brows to https://forums.freebsd.org it first goes to cisa.gov and then redirects or when you get to the forums page you see that go out? are you sure its from the forum and not locally?
 
I didn't investigate too much but I am running Firefox with uBlok Origin and I can see there is a connection to cisa.gov when visiting the home page of this forum.
 
Funny cause NPR, the US public radio network, just had a guy on from CISA talking about security on the internet. So it might have something to do with security cause the government is there to help you.
 
My government is not US government ;-)
 
Sorry but I don't understand why my browser is doing a connection to cisa.gov ? Is there any content from cisa.gov on the home page of the forum ?
 
facedebouc said:
Sorry but I don't understand why my browser is doing a connection to cisa.gov ? Is there any content from cisa.gov on the home page of the forum ?
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What would be interesting would be:
reboot computer
start packet capture
first browser session, go someplace other than freebsd forums.
If you see request to cisa.gov, then it's not the forum, it's not freebsd.

Maybe try the experiment with and without ublok enabled/installed.
 
When I am going to FreeBSD.org there is no connection to cisa.gov
 
Well, the forums are hosted in South Carolina...
forums.freebsd.org

Cant acess to forum

Hi! Have a "classical" freebsd fresh installation and when i search things from Google that it brings me to this forum i always have message that i cant access on it. It works only on my Phone or other Linux machine
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And, Uncle Sam has a say in where the physical wires get installed on his turf, and what nodes they connect to.

Oh, and lately, I'm seeing people post their own pictures for profile pictures, so I know what they look like. ?.
 
Two minutes of looking at source, and: this comes from a member-posted link in the side bar of the front page:

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In the source of the rendered front page, that is this:

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So, a member linked to an article on that website. That's all.

Oh, and we track your vaccination state.
 
So there is something to do to enhance privacy on this forum.
Thank you all for your accurate replies.
 
Yeah, sometimes people don't even realize that posting cleartext of an HTTP link is not the same as making an actual TCP/IP connection. Direction of the connection matters. Some of the forum tags do enable pulling in a bit of stuff from other sites (Like what dd_ff_bb did, or even YT, but that's not the same as other sites actively initiating a connection. If anything, thanks to the forum tags, we were the ones spying on cisa.gov for problems with Chrome that are supposed to be classified information. ;)
 
Is that a potential XSS vulnerability ?
 
Nah, XenForo should be patched for those by now. There was a patch recently, but I'm too lazy to look for the announcement a mod made on these forums about it.
 
I thought it might have been me running certain commands that brought heat down on us:

Trihexagonal said:
Neither recognize initiate machine war or launch nuclear strike -DC, but I prefer sh.
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forums.freebsd.org

What is your favorite text editor?

Shouldn't there be a poll? Does this forum’s software even allow polls with more than 300 options?
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Code: 
# initiate machine war
sh: initiate: not found
# launch nuclear strike on California
sh: launch: not found
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FreeBSD could be used for hacking?

A system that will continue functioning with no matter what occur: you could throw the motherboard to a wall, shoot it, even bur it. And it will continue working. Even when I have most knowing of GNU/Linux, I think FreeBSD has its own potential. Or perhaps make a mix of both. I am learning C...
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DutchDaemon said:
Oh, and we track your vaccination state.
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They'll never take me alive. I haven't had one.
 
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