Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

2006-09-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Just in case you wondered whether Tor and Gmail are a good combination: They are not. I did some testing with Privoxy's cvs version and this filter: FILTER: googlemail Hides sponsored links with css and shows why insecure mail transfer is a bad idea. s@/head@style type=text/css\#fbc, \#fbl,

Re: Using Gmail (with Tor) is a bad idea

2006-09-18 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] top posted (please don't): Just in case you wondered whether Tor and Gmail are a good combination: They are not. I did some testing with Privoxy's cvs version and this filter: Results:

Re: information about cenzorship in Slovenia

2006-09-17 Thread Fabian Keil
Matej Kovacic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would just like to let you know that Slovenian government (Slovenia is a member of European Union since last year) a week ago decided to block two on-line gambling sites, because they do not have a licence to operate in Slovenia. There are

Re: Privoxy alternatives

2006-09-17 Thread Fabian Keil
gabrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be honest : i hate privoxy and his content filtering. i have commented user.action file and default-action but navigation stops anyway very often .I'm an adult person so babes or porno are allright for me . What does navigation stops anyway mean

Re: torrc Clientonly

2006-09-11 Thread Fabian Keil
Arrakistor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some clarification regarding the Clientonly setting. Does this explicitly mean you do not participate in any circuits, or that you are not running as an entrance/exit node but may still run mitm. Perhaps it means what the man page says it

Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes

2006-09-08 Thread Fabian Keil
sigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: possibly we get a problem, because in Germany they're just confiscating tor-middleman-nodes?!? Middleman? Plural? The message is only available in German... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496214.html This is about one single hard disk being

Re: Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha is out

2006-09-01 Thread Fabian Keil
Anothony Georgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never compiled Tor on Windows, but there is a fair chance that you have to run ./configure by hand. I tried ./configure but it gave me the not recognized... error. Probably your setup

Re: Could i use tor to login Paypal?

2006-08-30 Thread Fabian Keil
Jay Goodman Tamboli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006.08.30, at 11:12, xvidivx wrote: I have heard someone said, It will lead to account hold? If I understand your question correctly, you are asking if PayPal will put my account old hold if I sign in via Tor. So far I have not seen

Re: Holy shit I caught 1

2006-08-28 Thread Fabian Keil
Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Arrakistor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Tell me more about the corrupt downloads, are they recent? From karotte or sectoor? Weirdest shit in the world. Privoxy is dumping temporary failure messages mid-stream into the binaries, yet keeping the

Re: More control over bandwidth

2006-08-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Tor Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, what I would LIKE to be able to do is have more control over the bandwidth my node requires, specifically, I want to donate a smaller quantity of bandwidth... a steady load of 32kbps with occasional bursting to 48kbps wouldn't be a problem and it

Re: A brief response on TRUTHWORTHY

2006-08-19 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I don't see the problem here. The option is called AllowInvalidNodes not DoNotOnlyUseTrusworthyNodes. You can't assume that every node not marked as invalid is trustworthy. I notice you snipped away quite a lot of what I

Tor servers chained with proxies (was: A brief response on TRUTHWORTHY)

2006-08-19 Thread Fabian Keil
maillist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really hate it when Tor servers are chained with squid and provide modified content without letting me know. Some of them even provide default addresses for failed DNS requests, instead of delivering a decent error message. I think most of these

Re: Tor on Debian

2006-07-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Steven Colbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the most appropriate list to ask a question about installing Tor on Debian? I have a weird error after installing and wasn't sure if I should post it here or on a Debian list. If you get the error after the installation is already finished,

Re: Tor / Privoxy for local URLs

2006-07-25 Thread Fabian Keil
Steven Colbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine called twiki - it's running on a machine on my LAN: When I have Tor and Privoxy enabled, and I try to browse it via FireFox I get: No such domain Your request for *http://twiki/* could not be fulfilled, because the

Re: Reliability of circuit extension if target server is running a Tor exit node

2006-07-11 Thread Fabian Keil
Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:39:05PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: I read on http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ExitEavesdroppers: |Tor does provide a partial solution in a very specific situation, though. |When you make

Reliability of circuit extension if target server is running a Tor exit node

2006-07-10 Thread Fabian Keil
I read on http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ExitEavesdroppers: |Tor does provide a partial solution in a very specific situation, though. |When you make a connection to a destination that also runs a Tor server, |Tor will automatically extend your circuit so you exit from

Re: Can't download pdfs without socksifying Adobe

2006-06-16 Thread Fabian Keil
Simon Callow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guys at NPP say that if you click on a link in your browser to download a html page then Tor works fine but if you click on a link to download a pdf then you get local DNS resolution without any warning message from Tor even when using Privoxy. It

Re: Tor,security and web-usability - Sorry, now readable with line-breaks...

2006-06-13 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean one theoretically had to deinstall Flash before surfing with Tor? Not to install Flash in the first place would be an even better idea. The same question applies to Windows Media Player on the Mac, this is not secure to surf with, is it? Is a

Re: Just some super-paranoia

2006-06-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anybody has a solution to the problem I currently have. Is it possible to stop tor from connecting to servers in the US or servers on my blacklist? I have peerguardian, but that only prevents it from connecting to honeypots etc. on the

Re: Tor,security and web-usability - Sorry, now readable with line-breaks...

2006-06-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Steve Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:35:49AM -0700, Ringo Kamens wrote: You should have a firewall set up that only lets firefox/privoxy connect to 127.0.0.1, that way you can be sure it isn't leaking anything. You could extend this philosophy to say nothing

Re: User.Actions Template

2006-05-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Anothony Georgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is wise to note that Privoxy can not filter HTTPS. Most non-tech end-users do not know this. I do not block HTTPS connections as I think it is easiser to simply not visit an HTTPS url. How do you convince your browser not to fetch

Re: User.Actions Template

2006-05-21 Thread Fabian Keil
Anthony DiPierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anothony Georgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is wise to note that Privoxy can not filter HTTPS. Most non-tech end-users do not know this. I do not block HTTPS connections as I think

Re: P2P revisited.

2006-05-19 Thread Fabian Keil
Watson Ladd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we created a P2P client using Tor that acted as an exit node we could get a lot more users, a lot more traffic, and a lot more capacity, all adding to the anonymity Tor provides. Any downsides? While it could motivate some people to run Tor on

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