Re: Bigger Thinking [was: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return]

2010-08-21 Thread Al MailingList
And what about Microsoft? I think someone should be targeting/lobbying them to include a Tor client and default bridge relay in every version of Windows 8 or 9. Find out what it would take to get them to do this, Sorry, what's in this for Microsoft? Being a good corporate citizen? From a

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-22 Thread Al MailingList
I really like the Request-Policy plugin too. Quite amazing how many other sites some reference. Cheers, Al On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:     On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:10:26 +0100 Matthew pump...@cotse.net top-posted (*please* stop doing that!): I am

Re: shadowserver.org

2010-06-14 Thread Al MailingList
I am running the exit-node tor-readme.spamt.net. My provider, server4you, keeps getting abuse reports from shadowserver.org. According to the abuse service they are running honeynets which record activity comming from my exit-node's IP. I have tried to communicate directly with

Re: shadowserver.org

2010-06-14 Thread Al MailingList
discouraged too? If people insist on using it for spam and god-knows-what else, what other choice is there? Unfortunately if people continue to abuse it, it just stops people who otherwise would from running an exit node. -Damian On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Al MailingList alpal.mailingl

Re: shadowserver.org

2010-06-14 Thread Al MailingList
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:03 PM, alex-...@copton.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:01:53PM +0200, kuhkatz wrote: i assume you might block these server via the exit-rules of your server. Maybe I am wrong, but if the servers' IP addresses where publicly known, they would not be honeypots,

Re: Bridges and China (new thread)

2010-05-26 Thread Al MailingList
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: Rather than continue to hijack the old thread, here's a new one about bridges and china. I'm fully aware the GFW seems to have successfully crawled https://bridges.torproject.org and added all of those bridges into their blocking

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread Al MailingList
Hi, I don't want to be a party-pooper, but installing just another big node (like blutmagie) would still mean * relatively (still very low) redundancy * strong agglomeration of traffic on only a few nodes (thus leading to) * relatively simple eavesdropping of exit traffic When

Re: How does TOR deal with mac addresses

2010-03-26 Thread Al MailingList
Where exactly do you think the MAC address would get recorded? Your MAC Is only sent on your local LAN segment? i.e. your MAC only gets as far as your home router, and then your home router's MAC only gets as far as the ISP's end point... etc... On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM, emigrant