Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-29 Thread Erilenz
. If you can use SSL on connect on port 465, then nothing is sent in plain text. Other than DNS leaks, you need to make sure Thunderbird doesn't leak any other information in the EHLO or the headers when sending mail. -- Erilenz

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-29 Thread Erilenz
drwx--S--- 3 debian-tor debian-tor 4096 2009-12-29 12:09 /var/lib/tor/ -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Google DNS

2009-12-03 Thread Erilenz
OpenDNS comes up every so often. -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Erilenz
of hops from 3 to 2. -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Erilenz
simple circumvention wouldn't use it. That doesn't make it the practical truth of what is happening though. -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-18 Thread Erilenz
even if they don't need strong anonymity because it is free, and because it has certain desirable attributes that other things such as VPNs don't give you. Given that they're going to use Tor, why not minimise the amount of bandwidth they're using in the process of doing so. -- Erilenz

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-18 Thread Erilenz
* on the Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:03:42AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 11/17/2009 08:57 AM, Erilenz wrote: The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use cases where that level of protection isn't

Re: all traffic through a VPN on top of tor, done!

2009-11-17 Thread Erilenz
remember how though. Google it. -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-17 Thread Erilenz
to transfer 75% of that: x -(1) Entry -(2) Exit -(3) y -- Erilenz *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Re: Tor/Iptables Question

2009-08-19 Thread Erilenz
-m owner ! --uid-owner root -j REJECT You should be able to modify that for your own purposes. -- Erilenz

Re: Stable releases - old versions

2009-07-31 Thread Erilenz
to send an email to the local root account when it detects it is too old. Obviously, that wont work in many instances, eg Windows Tor servers, but it would be an additional contact route... -- Erilenz

Re: Yahoo Mail and Tor

2009-07-10 Thread Erilenz
by looking at the HTTP Host header. So you need privoxy/polipo to strip the example.exit from the HTTP Host header before forwarding on the actual HTTP request, so it sends this instead: GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n Host: www.google.com\r\n \r\n -- Erilenz

Re: Firefox video tag

2009-07-01 Thread Erilenz
an external media player for any video type it supports, it's safe for Tor? Perhaps it's worth keeping an eye on it in case they introduce a new video type which uses an external player which bypasses the proxy settings? -- Erilenz

Firefox video tag

2009-06-30 Thread Erilenz
Hi, Firefox 3.5 was released today. Has anyone investigated the new video tag that it supports with regards to whether or not it can cause leaks with Tor? -- Erilenz

Moxie Marlinspike

2009-02-19 Thread Erilenz
to post unencrypted data over the Tor network. Are you sure you wish to proceed? -- Erilenz

Perl modules

2008-11-24 Thread Erilenz
Hello, I just checked CPAN, and I can't find any modules related to Tor. Not even a module for talking to the control port. Are there really no Perl modules for manipulating Tor, or are they just hidden somewhere else online? -- Erilenz

Re: Limiting hops

2008-11-18 Thread Erilenz
sniffed. It might even increase the chance of that occuring. -- Erilenz

Re: Hidden service route

2008-11-12 Thread Erilenz
. Thanks. -- Erilenz

Hidden service route

2008-11-11 Thread Erilenz
browser - Tor client - Entry Node - Hidden Service -- Erilenz

Re: is tor an email mixmaster?

2008-11-10 Thread Erilenz
that has either confirmed it working or not working. -- Erilenz

[no subject]

2008-11-02 Thread Erilenz
bandwdith is more scarce. -- Erilenz

Re: Google searches

2008-10-24 Thread Erilenz
* on the Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:32:23AM -0400, Alessandro Donnini wrote: For the past month or so, I have been unable to consistently run web searches via Google using a Tor-enabled browser. Use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ instead. It's a wrapper around Google. -- Erilenz

Re: Performance

2008-10-22 Thread Erilenz
... -- Erilenz

Multiple machines using Tor behind NAT

2008-10-20 Thread Erilenz
at it, wouldn't I end up putting all the traffic through a smaller number of circuits and thus having a slower network? -- Erilenz

Re: Default ORPort 443 [was: Re: German data rentention law]

2008-10-19 Thread Erilenz
an OR port on 443, so people must be taking note of the documentation at http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en -- Erilenz

Re: Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha is out

2008-10-14 Thread Erilenz
locked down these days. Thank you for this one. There already seems to be a lot more hosts exiting on 465/587 spread across many more countries, compared to last time I checked. -- Erilenz

Re: unsubscribe

2008-10-10 Thread Erilenz
into how to unsubscribe from a mailing list properly. I'm sure a 30 second google would have been sufficient, but they'd rather email everyone on a mailing list asking that information instead as it involves engaging less brain cells. -- Erilenz

Re: Geode: some more headaches for TorButton? :-P

2008-10-09 Thread Erilenz
. They'll almost certainly include an option to turn it off altogether, but even if they don't you have to explicitly state that the website is allowed to see your location. -- Erilenz