Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 15 February 2011 05:20:21 Mike Perry wrote: I was under the impression that we hacked it to also be memory-only, though. But you're right, if I toggle Torbutton to clear my cache, Polipo's is still there... The polipo shipped in the tor bundles has the cache turned off, but any

Re: ExcludeNodes doesn't work right

2009-05-01 Thread Robert Hogan
On Thursday 30 April 2009 08:15:02 Scott Bennett wrote: About a day ago, I added a list of obsolete nodes, mostly running 0.1.*.* releases, to my ExcludeNodes list in torrc. One of those was TSL. I still see TSL being chosen for routes for circuits. I've noticed such apparent

Re: Tork - all tor versions lead to 0.2.1.7-alpha?

2008-12-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 08 December 2008 15:19:39 Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am wondering if anyone knows why Tork (0.29.2) seeks to download tor-0.2.1.7-alpha regardless of whether one asks it to check for the latest stable tor instead of the latest experimental tor. I see that the latest STABLE tor

Re: Excludenode not working?

2008-12-07 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 07 December 2008 05:58:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the Vidalia log file: Dec 06 05:14:45.484 [Warning] Requested exit node 'Ungoo5zie6raZeitheo' is in ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes, using anyway. How is it possible? Thanks You have specified 'Ungoo5zie6raZeitheo' in

Re: Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 23:25:59 slush wrote: I found another problem in torsocks bash script. There is missing backslash in sed construction around . torsocks off. More in googlecode issue http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=1 Hi Slush, This issue is fixed in SVN now.

Re: Torsocks on FreeBSD

2008-11-19 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 15 November 2008 20:34:45 you wrote: I'm trying to set up Torsocks on FreeBSD. The configure script fails with the error libdl is required. From googling it looks like libdl is a part of glibc, but glibc isn't listed in ports. The FreeBSD mailing list archives mention that libc

Re: Torsocks on FreeBSD

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 15 November 2008 20:34:45 Adlesshaven wrote: I'm trying to set up Torsocks on FreeBSD. The configure script fails with the error libdl is required. From googling it looks like libdl is a part of glibc, but glibc isn't listed in ports. The FreeBSD mailing list archives mention

Re: Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Hogan
haven't even used it, but I *think* that is about it. On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Linux users may be familiar with the various patches for tsocks that make it safe for use with Tor. https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter

Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

2008-10-26 Thread Robert Hogan
Linux users may be familiar with the various patches for tsocks that make it safe for use with Tor. https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TSocksPatches Torsocks takes all of the patches to tsocks listed at the link above:

Re: Firewalled relays

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 04 October 2008 00:03:10 Martin Fick wrote: [..] To achieve this, firewalled relays would borrow an idea from hidden services and register rendezvous points with the directory servers. The rendezvous points would have to be with non-firewalled relays. Unlike hidden services

Re: tortila as a bad exit

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:09:13 Drake Wilson wrote: Quoth Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 2008-08-11 23:30:20 -0500: I'm not convinced. It hasn't taken any 300 circuits for me. It seems to happen every time I have a circuit that exits via tortila. It happens with every

Re: tortila as a bad exit

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 11:29:56 Robert Hogan wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:09:13 Drake Wilson wrote: Quoth Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 2008-08-11 23:30:20 -0500: I'm not convinced. It hasn't taken any 300 circuits for me. It seems to happen every time I have

Re: email hidden service

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 14 July 2008 11:07:16 Dawney Smith wrote: Karsten N. wrote: Are there any hidden service email services in existance? Yes: http://w6kb72k2phin5grc.onion/ (Onion Boxes, Etc) http://shells3nfdn3zk5h.onion/ (shells.onion) Thanks for the information. Out of interest,

Re: OnionCat -- An IP-Transparent TOR Hidden Service Connector

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:01:27 Bernhard Fischer wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2008, M. Peterson wrote: Hiho,, cool codings, does that mean, emule and torrent can run over tor now? Yes, with some limitations. OnionCat (currently) does not route packets. You can not forward packets to

Re: How are hackers breaking Tor and trojan users?

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 06:17:38 Roger Dingledine wrote: snip He may also be referring to attacks where a local application (like the browser, but it doesn't have to be) can be tricked into connecting to your local Tor control port, like Kyle's attack from last year:

Re: Aw: Re: Problem w/ Using tor(k) for Geostreaming Live-Videos

2008-06-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 21:16:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, MY mistake: This is the live stream url: http://wgeostreaming.zdf.de/encoder/livestream15_h.asx It also got a Dsl2000 on www.zdf.de there 2! the first one is one of their videos and they are not geostream protected! But when

Re: Torbutton 1.2.0rc1 released

2008-06-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 19:52:15 Curious Kid wrote: Thank you so much! Have you thought about having an option to set the initial starting state of TorButton? Mine starts in the state it was in when I last exited Firefox. That has led to me browsing to hidden services in the clear without

Re: Spoofing location - possible?

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 13:40:34 Geoffrey Goodell wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:04:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on May 05, 2008 12:38 -0400 (in part): Please forgive me for not doing more thorough research before emailing. I'm not part

Re: getting more exit nodes

2008-04-28 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:57:34 F. Fox wrote: Alexander Bernauer wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:51:51AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote: I really don't understand why pseudo-exit node anonymity is so important? The short answer: Admins who run a Tor node which is for good reasons not an

Re: getting more exit nodes

2008-04-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 20 April 2008 12:32:19 Alexander Bernauer wrote: Hi The CCC local group Rheintal [1] is currently working on a solution to get much more Tor exit nodes which we think is a major problem of Tor. The basic idea is to develop a browser plugin which while active turns the computer

Re: Weird-looking circuits in Vidalia

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 21:05:49 you wrote: snip Ok, thanks for the info! How about replacing these strings with text like Directory Request in future? That would be be little more descriptive. I was thinking the same thing recently. I even went so far as to start a proposal - because

Proposal: Incorporate Unreachable ORs into the Tor Network

2008-03-22 Thread Robert Hogan
Unreachable ORs into the Tor Network Author: Robert Hogan Created: 2008-03-08 Status: Draft Overview: Propose a scheme for harnessing the bandwidth of ORs who cannot currently participate in the Tor network because they can only make outbound TCP connections. Motivation: Restrictive local

Re: Invalid uptime warning messages

2008-02-17 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 17 February 2008 10:56:28 Olaf Selke wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: At 10:00 p.m. my tor server began issuing a warning message about a negative uptime: yep, the same here on blutmagie. TZ is UTC+1 Feb 17 04:40:45.116 [warn] Invalid uptime -19907 The affected router appears

Re: Invalid uptime warning messages

2008-02-17 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 17 February 2008 12:10:40 Robert Hogan wrote: On Sunday 17 February 2008 10:56:28 Olaf Selke wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: At 10:00 p.m. my tor server began issuing a warning message about a negative uptime: yep, the same here on blutmagie. TZ is UTC+1 Feb 17 04:40

Re: How to remove some useless nodes

2008-01-29 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 28 January 2008 18:34:52 F. Fox wrote: 孙超 wrote: We in China use tor mainly for avoiding Great Fire Wall, which is a very strong internet censorship software operated by the government. So, if linkage with nodes within China is completely useless for us to break the censorship.

Re: filesharing with tor and offsystem online storage

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 20 January 2008 00:38:35 Michael Schmidt wrote: Hi please have a look at the http://offsystem.sf.net If you want to distribute a file anonymously, upload it into the Offsystem and send the OFF-Link over Tor. That allows Tor to do anonymous Filesharing without any Bandwidth for the

Re: Konqueror SOCKS with Tor+Privoxy

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 19 January 2008 23:36:35 Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:31:51PM -0800, Ned Bun wrote: I can't find an answer to this question anywhere. You might find https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-web to be useful. In using Konqueror with Tor and Privoxy, should

Re: filesharing with tor and offsystem online storage

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 20 January 2008 18:19:30 Michael Schmidt wrote: Hi Robert, source is here: http://offsystem.cvs.sourceforge.net/offsystem/?sortdir=down On Jan 20, 2008 7:05 PM, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There don't appear to be any source tarballs and looking at the cvs repository

Re: Pidgin and Gajim are both DNS-leaking, what IM-tool for Jabber are you using?

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 11 January 2008 05:15:13 Scott Bennett wrote: I'm assuming the patch is to get tsocks to do name resolution via a socks proxy using 4a or 5. If that is correct, where can I get the patch, please? I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE, but haven't updated my ports tree in months

Re: Pidgin and Gajim are both DNS-leaking, what IM-tool for Jabber are you using?

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 11 January 2008 22:02:52 Robert Hogan wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008 05:15:13 Scott Bennett wrote: I'm assuming the patch is to get tsocks to do name resolution via a socks proxy using 4a or 5. If that is correct, where can I get the patch, please? I'm running FreeBSD 6.3

Re: Pidgin and Gajim are both DNS-leaking, what IM-tool for Jabber are you using?

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Hogan
On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:39:54 kazaam wrote: Hi, I tested today Pidgin and Gajim for DNS-leaking and found that both are doing it. In Both you can't circumvent it. Even when using a http-proxy they still resolve the dns by themselves not using the proxy. What is your preferred

Re: Missing key from authority?

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 21:22:54 Tom Hek wrote: Hello, This message started flooding my logs: Jan 09 22:19:27.260 [notice] We're missing a certificate from authority tor26 with signing key : launching request. A friend of my has exact the same

Re: netstat reporting destinion IP address

2007-11-25 Thread Robert Hogan
in Tork's logs (as they are very easily accessible through a nice GUI and all). Well, I guess this is an issue with TorK. Hopefully Robert Hogan (TorK's maintainer) will read this, although my problem might be a bit too specific to justify a fix which I guess would turn out much more complex than

Re: server incorrectly believes IP address has changed

2007-11-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:34:16 you wrote: cached-routers and cached-routers.new are not the file names used in 0.2.0.12-alpha, but rather cached-descriptors and cached-descriptors.new, and in my original message, I wrote: - I restarted my tor server a couple of hours ago,

Re: new perspektive for tor

2007-11-17 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 16 November 2007 17:04:18 Michael Schmidt wrote: Due to data retention logg needs/law in the EU, there will be no outproxy and no forwarding-nodes in the EU anymore, if they do not logg all traffic. Can someone point me to the EU directive on this? I thought this was just a German

Re: new perspektive for tor

2007-11-17 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 17 November 2007 14:42:56 you wrote: Hi Robert, On Sat, 17.11.2007, you wrote: Can someone point me to the EU directive on this? I thought this was just a German initiative. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:105:0054:01 :EN:HTML felix If you

Why Are We Waiting for the Cavalry to Ride In? (was Re: court trial against me - the outcome)

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 14:22:29 Mirko Thiesen wrote: I asked What about a postal service that delivers i.e. a bomb or a blackmail letter? Do they help people committing crimes as well? They said that these two things could not be compared as a postal service offers transportation

Re: court trial against me -

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:22:09 TOR Admin (gpfTOR1) wrote: Hi Mirko, 1: by German law a Tor node admin is something like an access provider. You are not responsible for your traffic. If the court have only an IP address and you have a tor status log, they have nothing. 2: Tor is a

Re: court trial against me - the outcome

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:47:50 you wrote: This country needs an revolution! Maybe! ;) In the meantime, solidarity among Tor operators would go a long way. If that case had been for 100,000 euro you might now find yourself with a date in court. Who would you turn to in such a

Re: first hop to entry node, encrypted? sorry for trivial question

2007-11-06 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 16:47:15 Jefferson Iblis wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 8:55 AM, Florian Reitmeir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 06 Nov 2007, Jefferson Iblis wrote: I've heard variously that Tor does encrypt my communications with my entry node, and also that it does not.

Re: Insecure Privoxy Configuration in Vidalia Bundles Prior to 0.1.2.18

2007-10-31 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 15:34:18 Gregory Fleischer (Lists) wrote: Versions of the Vidalia bundle prior to 0.1.2.18 install Privoxy with an insecure configuration file. Both Windows and Mac OS X versions are affected. The installed 'config.txt' file ('config' on Mac OS X) had the

Re: Setting up a private tor network

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Hogan
I was also setting up my own Tor network based on the instructions in the FAQ, but I've been trying to reproduce it as a virtual network running a number of User Mode Linux based virtual machines on one PC. It is available as a Netkit laboratory; I think it is quite easy to install and run,

Re: Library Defeats Tor Followup Addl Info

2007-10-16 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 15 October 2007 23:58:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shnip well then explain to me how they can monitor dns traffic if all dns requests are made within the originating client box and not to any outside source. maybe all you tor gurus can explain how clients usually make dns

Re: Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 14 October 2007 19:50:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:21:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.9K bytes in 30 lines about: : Do: : Spoof user-agent (is this necessary even with javascript disabled?) : (browser) Arguably, unless you're using BobnJoe's

Re: magic Wednesday

2007-10-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 13 October 2007 23:56:57 Roger Dingledine wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:22:45PM +0200, Olaf Selke wrote: shnip So what's happening is that on the first morning at 6am, your Tor server is getting a hup signal, which causes it to publish a new descriptor and reset its 18 hour

Browser dos/don'ts ( was Re: Incognito Live CD using Polipo)

2007-10-13 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 12 October 2007 00:26:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:57:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.1K bytes in 29 lines about: : Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to : tweak makes my feeble head hurt. The latest torbutton-dev

Tor Defcon Talks

2007-10-13 Thread Robert Hogan
The defcon videos are up. This is Roger's: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9081582671026610093q=defcon+roysac.com+dingledinetotal=1start=0num=10so=0type=searchplindex=0 You can view Nick's and Mike's by changing dingledine to mathewson and perry respectively in the search box. Are

Re: funneling a wireless net's outbound connections through tor

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 01 October 2007 16:35:29 Mike Cardwell wrote: If you use Tor, you considerably increase the number and range of people that could potentially attack you. You also make yourself a tastier target. This is not a bad thing if you know how to deal with it. It *is* a bad thing if you

Re: Set up a webproxy to TOR - tor-proxy.net

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 24 September 2007 02:22:34 Ricky Fitz wrote: Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2007, 20:50 -0400 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:42:31AM +0200, Ricky Fitz wrote: It is running on the same server my TOR-Server is running (called GrossATuin). Does your proxy use a

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-22 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 21 September 2007 19:34:09 Alexander W. Janssen wrote: On 9/21/07, Arrakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, quick question. If I have Tor process running, and request a url that has 10 images to load from the same domain, do all the requests go through the same circuit, or

Re: Exclude nodes from certain countries

2007-09-16 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 14 September 2007 18:27:21 misc wrote: I'm using Tor on windows I prefer to avoid tor nodes from certain countries. I know that I can manually add nodes into ExcludeNodes setting in Tor Config. However there are over hundred different Tor nodes in one country I want to exclude.

Re: ATTN: An attack on my torrc? I did not specify a server or an exit node!!!

2007-09-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 15 September 2007 20:20:32 jeffery statin wrote: This was in my message log today and I did not specify a server or an exit node (if that is what using exit refers to). Hell, I just re-installed this Windows XP SP2 and just installed the Tor bundle (Tor v.0.1.2.17, Vidalia

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 22:59:56 Ringo Kamens wrote: It's not the issue of a great wall attack where a person can't access a public wiki with onion links, it's an issue of whether that wiki could even exist. You'd have to crazy to host that on a public machine. Comrade Ringo Kamens You

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:32:39 Ringo Kamens wrote: I'm interested in testing this out with somebody. Until then, can any devs/tor hackers enlighten us as to what would determine which host gets picked? Would it be whoever is the fewest hops away? If so, one host would get the most

Re: Directory servers for a subset of Tor routers

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 05 August 2007 20:13:14 Silviu Udrea wrote: Can i configure TOR to use it with some code so i can choose which exit node i want? Something like this: TOR_exit_nodes[10]; for( i=0; i10; i++ ) { retrieve_webpage( URL, TOR_exit_nodes[ i ] ); } This code should rotate 10

Re: bandwidth graph ok with 0.1.2.14-dev only

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 09:19:46 Olaf Selke wrote: Hello, my OR still periodically shows up a 24 hours sawtooth bandwidth utilization using 0.1.2.15. Regarding the dropping bandwidth every night GMT+2 it behaves exactly like 0.1.2.14. I supposed this issue to be fixed with 0.1.2.14-dev

Re: Blocking child pornography exits

2007-07-22 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 22 July 2007 05:58:23 Ron Wireman wrote: Unfortunately, this 'separation of concerns' you're a proponent of doesn't work in the real world. In the same way that you can't insert a piece of metal into someone with a high calibre rifle without grievously injuring then, you can't run a

Re: magic Wednesday

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 21:17:50 Olaf Selke wrote: Robert Hogan wrote: Just looking at a few days in June for blutmagie, it seems to disappear off the radar shortly after teatime most days, then reappears some time after midnight. Eerily human behaviour, at least by Irish standards. last

Re: New Torbutton (1.1.4-alpha)

2007-07-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 09 July 2007 10:16:55 Mike Perry wrote: Feedback, suggestions, and comments are welcome. Especially if someone could point out what I'm doing wrong with the OpenSearch Google search plugin installations (which are somewhat unrelated, but I figured were worth putting up there, since a

Re: New Torbutton (1.1.4-alpha)

2007-07-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 10:10:36 Mike Perry wrote: . Changing tor state automatically makes me a little nervous, even if it is only in the Tor Enabled direction.. If torbutton could request a yes/no response from the user in such situations that would be nice. -- Browse Anonymously

Re: End of ROCKate soon

2007-07-10 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 05:48:39 Benjamin Schieder wrote: On 09.07.2007 10:42:34, Bill Weiss wrote: Benjamin Schieder([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:10:54PM +0200: On 06.07.2007 12:01:06, Arrakis wrote: Benjamin, Sorry to hear you won't be keeping up on the

Re: End of ROCKate soon

2007-07-06 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 06 July 2007 17:50:08 Benjamin Schieder wrote: Hi people. In response to a law that passed the german legislative today, I will cease production, development and distribution of ROCKate binaries and - maybe - even source code soon. The reasen is §202c StGB which states (IANAL

Re: The Hidden Wiki is Gone ... so how can I find TOR-only web pages?

2007-06-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 08 June 2007 15:23:42 Rip Rock wrote: I had wanted to find out about who is posting web pages that require TOR to be viewed. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ just has a sad little message that says, The *hidden **Wiki* is *gone*. There are some resources at:

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Hogan
I've put together the sort of page I think new Tor users need to visit when they get started on Tor for the first time. It's designed for TorK users, so doesn' t attempt to check your IP address or anything like that. Since it's very hard for a web service to know *all* Tor nodes at any given

Re: www.torrify.com

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:52:29 Sam wrote: ??? isn't TOR a volunteer effort? Are they using TOR and making $$'s off it? They're perfectly entitled to. More power to their elbow. From what I understand of torrify though you are more or less back to trusting an 'anonymity provider', rather

Tor LiveCD

2007-03-18 Thread Robert Hogan
This weekend I had a go at putting together a rudimentary Tor LiveCD. It's in usable condition (it boots, tork starts up and you can browse 'anonymously') but definitely not worth the bandwidth yet. I've documented the procedure as it currently stands at

gpg refresh keys

2007-03-10 Thread Robert Hogan
Kojm [EMAIL PROTECTED] not changed gpg: key 22F6856F: Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] not changed gpg: key 28988BF5: Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] not changed gpg: Total number processed: 4 gpg: unchanged: 4 a few seconds later using tor/privoxy on exit mychat4004d801 (resolves

Anyhoo...

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Hogan
On the face of it, forcing tor to be 'geo-diverse' (dread word) is fairly straightforward. The option is called NodeFamily. Ask the author of your favourite tor controller to implement something like 'Enforce Geoographical Diversity' and instruct tor to treat all servers in the same country

Re: question about router depth

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Hogan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:28, Rob wrote: I was listening to the security now podcast on twit about tor and I think they got it all wrong. They made it sound like you could go through as many routers as you configure it to do. I will send them an email. Thanks for the replies. Rob On

Re: TorK 0.13 Released - Many new features

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Hogan
anytime soon? Or should I really consider winding back? On Saturday 27 January 2007 22:40, Robert Hogan wrote: Hi All, I've just released a new version of TorK, with quite a few new features. The addition of a mixminion client, as well as the facility to manage anonymous use of Opera

Re: TorK 0.13 Released - Many new features

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 23:22, Patrick Hooker wrote: C compiler cannot make executables there are some suggestions in: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27719 -- KlamAV - An Anti-Virus Manager for KDE - http://www.klamav.net TorK - A Tor Controller For KDE -

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [pfSense Support] tor and traffic shaper]

2007-01-15 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 15 January 2007 11:18, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from mOjO [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: mOjO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:43:21 -0600 To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] tor and traffic shaper Reply-To: support@pfsense.com

Re: more letters from the feds

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 08 January 2007 11:42, Alexander Janssen wrote: And it also should be pointed out omce again that it would be a rather stupid idea to run a TOR exit-node at home, for a dynamic IP-address is blinking wildly on their radar. The possible consequences are left up to your imagination.

Re: Wired article on Tor

2006-12-30 Thread Robert Hogan
On Saturday 30 December 2006 07:45, Anil Gulecha wrote: I wanted to know what the developers think : http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72375-0.html?tw=rss.technology Regards The Tor authors were involved in the paper. Look through the or-talk archives from a few months ago - you should

man in the middle?

2006-12-24 Thread Robert Hogan
Got this when testing an ssh connection: WARNING: DSA key found for host shell.sf.net in /home/robert/.ssh/known_hosts:8 DSA key fingerprint 4c:68:03:d4:5c:58:a6:1d:9d:17:13:24:14:48:ba:99. The authenticity of host 'shell.sf.net (66.35.250.208)' can't be established but keys of different type

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-21 Thread Robert Hogan
/ http://www.privacy-ecosystem.com/ Sounds great, looking forward to it! I'll direct TorK users to it once it's up and running. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hogan Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM To: or-talk@freehaven.net

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-19 Thread Robert Hogan
): * Browser detected * Detection of flash/javascript/cookies with health warnings if enabled. My point is that it would be such an easy thing to do given that all of these sites have the infrastructure already in place. Just a question of presentation. Robert Hogan wrote: Hi all, http

Re: How can I trust all my Tor nodes in path

2006-12-01 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 01 December 2006 20:55, Tim Warren wrote: On 12/1/06, Robert Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real danger with Tor is using sensitive information over http rather than https and mixing anonymous and non-anonymous traffic over the same circuit. Those two are the most common

Re: How can I trust all my Tor nodes in path

2006-12-01 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 01 December 2006 21:23, Seth David Schoen wrote: Some people have suggested that this is a good application for trusted computing; proxies could prove that they're running the real, official proxy software on top of real hardware. Then timing attacks are still possible, but

Opening controlport by default

2006-11-26 Thread Robert Hogan
Hi all, Did tor ever open the control port by default? It's not doing so now. I can certainly understand why it might not be a good idea to open the control port without an explicit request to do so. However, the flip side is that a default installation of tor (especially a packaged one where

TorK 0.11 Released

2006-11-13 Thread Robert Hogan
Hi All, A new version of TorK has been released and I'm looking for as much destructive/constructive criticism as possible! TorK is a Tor Controller for KDE. TorK allows you to configure, run and update Tor. It also allows you to view the Tor network and choose how you would like to interact

Re: ciruit history

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:16, Kees Vonk wrote: Does Tor keep a note of the different circuits it chooses? I am interested in seeing what entry and exit nodes are being used over a period of time. TorK does this for you - but does not write the history to a file. -- KlamAV - An

Re: Practical onion hacking: finding the real address of Tor clients

2006-10-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 20 October 2006 14:53, Fabian Keil wrote: For a user new to Tor, the documentation is often confusing or ambiguous, important information is missing, and sometimes minor details over emphasized (especially in Tor FAQ). Tor is a young product and hopefully these problems will be

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Hogan
Hmmm... I had this problem with Whistlemother exit node and this site: http://www.iamaphex.net with the same frame.aspx?u=http%3a%2f%2flanding.domainsponsor.com blah blah blah filter ... =SUSPECTED+UNDESIRABLE+BOT i have the same experience using whistlersmother for the same site. --

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 06 October 2006 19:21, Robert Hogan wrote: Hmmm... I had this problem with Whistlemother exit node and this site: http://www.iamaphex.net with the same frame.aspx?u=http%3a%2f%2flanding.domainsponsor.com blah blah blah filter ... =SUSPECTED+UNDESIRABLE+BOT i have the same

Re: GERMAN JUSTICE MINISTER CALLS FOR LIMITS TO NET ANONYMIZER

2006-08-23 Thread Robert Hogan
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:08, Bill Watson wrote: The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison, fourth president of the United States On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:56:00 -0700, Joseph Lorenzo Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: following on from today's discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 21 August 2006 18:20, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: (moving back to or-talk) On 2006.08.21, at 13:06, Robert Hogan wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:19, Chris Palmer wrote: Jay Goodman Tamboli writes: Is it true that your traffic is more likely to be eavesdropped upon? We can

Re: following on from today's discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Hogan
On Monday 21 August 2006 19:05, Chris Palmer wrote: Robert Hogan writes: It's not a matter of speculation. Using Tor expands the number of potential eavesdroppers by at least the number of exit nodes in the Tor network. I understood the question to be something like, Are Tor operators

Re: following on from today's discussion

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Hogan
On Friday 18 August 2006 22:47, Roger Dingledine wrote: [Dropping the or-dev CC since this isn't related to Tor development] On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:14:29PM +0100, Robert Hogan wrote: That aside, I think it has highlighted a security risk that Tor itself may be guilty of understating

TorK 0.04 Released.

2006-07-05 Thread Robert Hogan
Hi there, Just a quick note to let you know that TorK 0.04 has been released. As you may or may not guess from the name TorK is a Tor Controller for KDE. It provides a wide range of 'quick' configuration settings as well as the ability to granularly define the way you want Tor to run. You can