Re: Torbutton 1.2.5 Released

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 21:26, Mike Perry wrote: Torbutton 1.2.5 has been released at https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/ This release provides the ability to automatically redirect to an alternate search engine when Google presents you with a captcha. The options are ixquick, bing, yahoo, and

Re: Torbutton 1.2.5 Released

2010-04-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/09/10 21:43, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Programmer In Training (p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us): On 04/09/10 21:26, Mike Perry wrote: Torbutton 1.2.5 has been released at https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/ This release provides the ability to automatically redirect to an alternate

Vidalia Bundle

2010-01-21 Thread Programmer In Training
Will it be possible to use Tor from the Tor browser bundle as a drop in replacement for Tor that came with the Vidalia bundle? If not, when will the Vidalia bundle be updated? -- PIT signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[OT] Problems With Outlook 2k2

2010-01-15 Thread Programmer In Training
As part of my attempts to write an article about using GPG and Tor with Outlook I set up a test email account. O says it connects just fine and sends/receives a test message, but when I attempt to send my own test message to another email address, I have nothing but connection time out issues. As

Re: [OT] Problems With Outlook 2k2

2010-01-15 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/15/2010 1:43 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote: isn't email (i.e. tcp/25) blocked by default as a exit policy? snip No (and apparently the list stripped my explicit reply-to setting). Tor does warn you, though (I have one email account that I cannot make a secure connection with due to the setup that

Re: [OT] Problems With Outlook 2k2

2010-01-15 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/15/2010 11:59 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:52:35 -0600 Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 1/15/2010 1:43 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote: isn't email (i.e. tcp/25) blocked by default as a exit policy? snip No (and apparently the list stripped my

Re: Google in China

2010-01-14 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/14/2010 6:03 PM, Ted Smith wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:55 -0800, coderman wrote: Google funding/developing large scale decentralized anonymity and circumvention technologies would be a welcome retort against the coming constraints in .cn and elsewhere. Let's not forget that as far

Hidden Services

2010-01-02 Thread Programmer In Training
I'm trying to set up a hidden service (website) and for some reason, FF won't resolve the url (zygwjgs2sp7wcmws.onion). My FF settings are as follows: HTTP Proxy: 127.0.0.1:8118 SOCKS5 Proxy: 127.0.0.1:9050 network.disable.dnsPrefetch set to true network.proxy.socks_remote_dns set to true I'm

Re: Pidgin with TOR

2009-12-31 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/31/2009 6:47 AM, Freemor wrote: snip Um... 9050 is TOR and SOCKS5. 8118 is Privoxy and HTTP. see: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO/InstantMessaging and/or http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html His problem is more likely due to Yahoo changing

Re: Pidgin with TOR

2009-12-31 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/31/2009 9:18 AM, emigrant wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 06:58 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 12/31/2009 6:47 AM, Freemor wrote: I'm using 127.0.0.1:9050 globally on Pidgin with Tor and have only issues with AIM (tells me my IP has been connecting and disconnecting too much

Re: Location privacy preserving location based service with Tor

2009-12-31 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/31/2009 10:33 AM, Xinwen Fu wrote: Dear All, We integrated Tor with a location based service to implement a location privacy preserving location based service. 1. Tor is used to hide the identity (IP) of a user, who sends her location to a location based service server for points of

Re: Pidgin with TOR

2009-12-31 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/31/2009 8:38 PM, emigrant wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 07:41 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: You can use mine at http://blog.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us/2009/12/getting-serious-about-security/ The image is licensed same as the post (e.g. CCD CopyWrite Hi, thanks for the link, i set

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-30 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/30/2009 11:44 AM, Jim wrote: Programmer In Training wrote: I've been testing some time out changes in FF to see if there is any difference. So far I haven't seen any but I've yet to fully put it to the test (I'm having problems with pages not fully loading, mainly

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 1:33 AM, grarpamp wrote: On the contrary, in the United States, all ISPs are *required* by statute to record all URL requests that can be detected passing from their customers through their equipment. False. ISP's in the US don't have to record any information of any kind

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 9:46 AM, Erilenz wrote: * on the Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:12:10PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: Actually, no. The default exit policy blocks smtp ports. Sometimes, you can find exit nodes that allow smtp. These are times are typically few and far between. I thought that,

New Article Up

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
I just posted a short article on the settings to use when setting up Pidgin and FF to use Tor. I tried to keep it simple, used screen shots of the settings that I've been suggested to use and have had great success in using to browse and IM across the Internets. As I say in the closing lines of

Re: New Article Up

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 3:38 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/29/2009 04:23 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: I just posted a short article on the settings to use when setting up Pidgin and FF to use Tor. I tried to keep it simple, used screen shots of the settings that I've been suggested to use and have

Re: Fix the middle router in Tor path ?

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 9:07 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:47:27AM +0800, MySecurity wrote: Hi, everyone! Can I fix the middle router in a Tor path, just like the EntryNodes and ExitNodes option in my Tor configuration file? ok, just for fun! Nope. Not in the Tor config

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 9:55 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:12:10PM -0600, benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote 2.3K bytes in 49 lines about: : Does Thunderbird perchance have a way to set the timeout to a different : value? There appear to a few ways to set the timeout, unsure

Re: New Article Up

2009-12-29 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/29/2009 8:28 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/29/2009 04:49 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: As for the documentation, it's like the other docs in that I've found them too convoluted for the beginner (like me) to understand and I wind up asking more questions then I really need to. Also

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-28 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/28/2009 11:33 AM, Flamsmark wrote: 2009/12/27 Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us mailto:p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us On 12/27/2009 10:00 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: Leave the http, https, ftp, ssl, gopher, whatever fields blank. only configure the socks field

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-28 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/28/2009 12:18 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/28/2009 12:38 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: What happens if you set the http fields to 127.0.0.1:8118 http://127.0.0.1:8118, and the SOCKS field to 127.0.0.1:9050 I get all kinds of weird problems. The RSS poller acts up, connections

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-28 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/28/2009 2:35 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/28/2009 01:18 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: I'm going to create a vm and load up tb3 to see what issues arise. It may be that much like firefox, the tb socks support is lacking. I set this up and tested it. The TB3 correctly used SOCKS

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-28 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/28/2009 3:15 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/28/2009 03:48 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: snip That's pretty much what it does for me, leaves the feed stale (and useless). I guess I'll have to get a third-party poller and use it in the open. It depends if you want it updated every

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-28 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/28/2009 9:12 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: snip Does Thunderbird perchance have a way to set the timeout to a different value? Yes, hidden in the equivelant of about:config (options - advanced - general tab - config editor - search for timeout). Timeouts seem big enough (nothing under 100

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 12:59 AM, Seth David Schoen wrote: Scott Bennett writes: On the contrary, in the United States, all ISPs are *required* by statute to record all URL requests that can be detected passing from their customers through their equipment. What statute requires this? USA

Re: Why Tor nodes based only on specific countries...

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 7:28 AM, arshad wrote: hi all, why tor nodes most of the time based on us,germany and korea? why not other countries like india, spain, italy, brazil etc... thanks. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 8:59 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:19:35PM -0600, p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote 2.1K bytes in 48 lines about: : feeds are polled (the new topics are displayed but not readable). I get : an error saying that Tor is not an HTTP transport proxy or

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 8:59 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:19:35PM -0600, p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote 2.1K bytes in 48 lines about: : feeds are polled (the new topics are displayed but not readable). I get : an error saying that Tor is not an HTTP transport proxy or

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 10:00 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/27/2009 10:39 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: OK, now I'm confused. You say don't use :9050, but all your documentation for FF, TB, and even Pidgin says use :9050 Has this changed and the wiki just not updated to reflect this? Yes, you

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-27 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/27/2009 10:00 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 12/27/2009 10:39 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: OK, now I'm confused. You say don't use :9050, but all your documentation for FF, TB, and even Pidgin says use :9050 Has this changed and the wiki just not updated to reflect this? Yes, you

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-26 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/26/2009 4:07 PM, Arshad wrote: hi all, does the ISP know which sites the user visits through TOR and privoxy or polipo? thank you very much. No. From all the documentation I read on how TOR works, they would only know the part of the relay closest to you. After that you pretty much

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-26 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/26/2009 4:53 PM, Arshad wrote: thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the sites the son visits what would the give? is the

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-26 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/26/2009 5:13 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote: Arshad writes: thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the sites the son visits

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-26 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/26/2009 8:37 PM, Ted Smith wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 17:23 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: snip May I ask what bridges is in regards to Tor? I'm responding off-list because this is a question easily answered on the Tor websites ;-) Doh! A bridge is a Tor entry node

Cannot Load The Onion

2009-12-25 Thread Programmer In Training
504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused The following error occurred while trying to access http://www.theonion.com/: 504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused Generated Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:26:58 Central Standard Time by Polipo

Re: Cannot Load The Onion

2009-12-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/25/2009 10:28 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: 504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused The following error occurred while trying to access http://www.theonion.com/: 504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused

Re: Cannot Load The Onion

2009-12-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/25/2009 12:17 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote: Programmer In Training writes: 504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused Perhaps The Onion has something against the onion router. I hope not. For one, the irony would be too much and could possibly destroy

Re: Cannot Load The Onion

2009-12-25 Thread Programmer In Training
On 12/25/2009 12:54 PM, Freemor wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:17:46 -0800 Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Programmer In Training writes: 504 Connect to www.theonion.com:80 failed: SOCKS error: connection refused Perhaps The Onion has something against the onion router. Loads

Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-23 Thread Programmer In Training
I use my email client (Thunderbird 3.0) to check my mail and handle most of my RSS feeds (since sage is no longer an extension for Firefox). For some reason I cannot read my feeds (they display as webpage in Thunderbird with a link to bring me to the site if I want) when the feeds are polled (the