Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:15:31 +0100 slush sl...@slush.cz wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: Wow. The differences in laws from one place to another makes it difficult or impossible to recommend any single practice for tor users. In the

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:18:10AM +0100, slush wrote: I dont want to close HTTP ports 8-), but next report of abusive traffic will lead to shutting down Tor or whole VPS :-(. So is there any best practice, what I should do now? DMCA response is probably not fitting to this issue... See also

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread Sven Anderson
Am 17.03.2009 um 04:59 schrieb pho...@rootme.org: In five years of running a node, I had my share of these too. From abusive forum posts to stupid people trying to break into .mil sites. I probably had 1 abuse complaint for every 10 TB of traffic served through Not if the abuse caused

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread phobos
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:30:43PM +0100, s...@anderson.de wrote 4.8K bytes in 92 lines about: Not if the abuse caused 5TB of traffic. You are comparing the number of events with the number of bytes. The abuse was a web forum post or some ssh attempts. In nearly all cases it was hundreds of

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread Sven Anderson
Am 17.03.2009 um 17:07 schrieb pho...@rootme.org: something, but not for the general Internet connections. Since a criminal usually has a strong interest to hide something, I expect the proportion of criminal traffic to be quite high, especially in countries with a stable freedom of

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-17 Thread slush
Eh, wrong mailbox :]. Marek On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Marek Palatinus ma...@palatinus.cz wrote: Thank you everybody. There were many good ideas. One of the worst solution is to close next and next exit ports, because by this, Tor will be closed network without bridges to Internet one

Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread Matthew McCabe
I gave a talk to a small group of people on Saturday at BarCampAustin: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampAustin4 I have also given this talk in two of my graduate classes at St. Edward's University. These kinds of informal talks are a great way to educate others about Internet censorship,

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread slush
Hello Matt, Im interesting in your materials, because at this moment, Im working on advocacy of Tor node on my university. So please send me a copy! I think there are some materials about Tor advocacy, see https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorGuideUniversities. Merging all these

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread phobos
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:57:31PM +0100, sl...@slush.cz wrote 3.5K bytes in 77 lines about: : Im interesting in your materials, because at this moment, Im working on : advocacy of Tor node on my university. So please send me a copy! Tor's presskit may be good for talking about why anonymity and

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread phobos
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:36:24PM -0500, mate...@mrmccabe.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 18 lines about: I gave a talk to a small group of people on Saturday at BarCampAustin: http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampAustin4 I have also given this talk in two of my graduate classes at St. Edward's

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread Ringo Kamens
I'd be interested in these materials as well. I've been giving workshops on privacy/security for about a year now and Tor has been a fairly big part of them. The workshop is available as a PDF at http://www.olyhackbloc.org/presentation.zip Ringo pho...@rootme.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread slush
Sudo /mnt/cdrom/presentation/encryptswap.sh or encryptswap_random.sh Are these scripts available? These files arent in zip... Interesting presentation. I will probably need another life to fulfill all these tips :-). Marek On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ringo Kamens 2600den...@gmail.com

Re: Tor grassroots advocacy

2009-03-17 Thread Ringo Kamens
You'll need to run them as root or using sudo. Here's encryptswap.sh swapoff /dev/sda2 dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 bs=1M cryptoswap /dev/sda2 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256,hash=sha256,swap echo /dev/mapper/cryptoswap none swap sw 0 0 /etc/fstab and here's