Re: Is gatereloaded a Bad Exit?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:41 +0100, morphium wrote: So, with everything said, could we now please Un-BadExit the nodes that were affected? Sorry, but this has been a long thread and I want to try to make sure I understand something important. Is it true or false that traffic was actually

Re: Is gatereloaded a Bad Exit?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 17:41 +, John Case wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Ted Smith wrote: Sorry, but this has been a long thread and I want to try to make sure I understand something important. Is it true or false that traffic was actually exiting through gatereloaded et all? I

Re: The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor

2011-01-04 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:02 -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For something like skype or paying for ANYTHING via credit card/paypal or the like, your anonymity is lost upon making payment so having to pay online outside the tor network cannot be a privacy/anonymity violation. I would

Re: Setting country code?

2010-12-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 09:38 -0500, . wrote: On 12/15/2010 09:29 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, . pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote: On 12/15/2010 08:46 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:10 PM, . pe...@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net wrote:

Re: Last openssl update for Ubuntu breaks Tor

2010-12-09 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 19:02 +0100, m...@kairaven.de wrote: Hi, i have/had problems with Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha and 0.2.1.27 (recompiled) after the last openssl update under Ubuntu Maverick according Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1029-1, December 08, 2010, openssl vulnerabilities, CVE-2008-7270,

Re: Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r1 out

2010-10-18 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 03:54 -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Eugen Leitl (eu...@leitl.org): On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 02:44:59PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Eugen Leitl (eu...@leitl.org): https://www.privacy-cd.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=66Itemid=89

Re: Virtual Machines - what is their use?

2010-10-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 16:01 +0100, Matthew wrote: If an individual is using Tor, Polipo, Torbutton, NoScript, and BetterPrivacy then why is a VM needed? How can VMs improve one's Tor experience? Presume you are being pursued by the Illuminati, because you alone have knowledge of the Holder

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-08 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 21:26 -0700, Robert Ransom wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:58:28 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: a free VPN There are VPN providers that will let you pay anonymously. Among others, I would be interested in reading posts containing lists of VPN providers

Re: Mac Pidgin?

2010-09-29 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 07:46 +, M wrote: Hello agan, whats a good program for mac equivalent to XP pidgin? I'm looking for safe Tor configuration as well as encrypted chat. Adium. Is Adium safe to use with TOR? Also, does the encryption in it only work when chatting to others using

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-15 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:40 +0200, Michael Scheinost wrote: 2. Why is it offering HTTP If duckduckgo.com really cares for the anonymity and privacy of its users, why do they offer unencrypted HTTP? Even if tor users are encouraged to use HTTPS, some of them will forget doing so. There's no

Re: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-14 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 13:01 +0200, Michael Scheinost wrote: Hi Eugen, I'm wondering why you posted this without any comment. On 08/13/2010 06:32 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: DuckDuckGo now operates one of these relays, and more importantly an exit enclave for DDG search engine traffic. As

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-29 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 19:36 -0700, Mike Perry wrote: (Though I suspect the SWIP will also help greatly. I am beginning to believe that these abuse-bot companies deliberately pick on new hosters who do not have their own IP allocation specified to bully them off the net). As in, MediaSentry

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:45 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I don't know who Censorship Research Center might be, but they claim to have a development project going for another encrypted proxy service. However, they say it will be free software, but *not* be open source, so no one can examine what

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:28 +0200, Olaf Selke wrote: Ted Smith schrieb: I wonder if they'll sign the binary blobs they distribute; it would be very easy for the police in any country to distribute their own backdoored version (via sneakernet) and just arrest everyone who uses it. I

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 14:36 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:33:23 -0400 Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:45 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I don't know who Censorship Research Center might be, but they claim to have a development project going

Re: Create a SAFE TOR Hidden Service in a VM (Re: Please Help Me Test my Hidden Service Pt. 2)

2010-02-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 13:41 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 02/24/10 23:16, Ted Smith wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:56 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: [] Perhaps mention the benefits of TPM chips (on 'ix, they can be configured to benefit the user, not some record company)? Yup. Check out

Re: Create a SAFE TOR Hidden Service in a VM (Re: Please Help Me Test my Hidden Service Pt. 2)

2010-02-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:56 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 02/24/10 00:10, Ringo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One update that should be noted is that this doesn't protect against bad nanny attacks. With full disk encryption, the boot partition isn't encrypted

Re: Searching for good ISPs

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, coderman wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, wuiv yccwg wuivyc...@googlemail.com wrote: ... Basically, I am after some feedback and maybe a wish list or suggestions. What Tor community would like to see in such kind of service provider? Tor is a

Re: freenode irc, tor, and sasl

2010-02-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 01:15 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: http://blog.freenode.net/2010/01/connecting-to-freenode-using-tor-sasl/ It looks like the freenode irc channel is trying a new approach for handling its Tor users. (This is great, since for a long time it looked like they were

Re: Google in China

2010-01-14 Thread Ted Smith
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 as Google is concerned, if we have

Re: Google in China

2010-01-14 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 18:26 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: 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

Re: TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?

2009-12-27 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:24 +0530, arshad wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 12:48 +0100, Nils Vogels wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:26, arshad arsha...@gmail.com wrote: i want the traffic be encrypted as well? any workarounds? Traffic within TOR itself is encrypted as part of the

Re: TOR and ISP

2009-12-26 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 17:23 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: 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

Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0

2009-12-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 23:19 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: I get an error saying that Tor is not an HTTP transport proxy or some such (I forget the exact message, this happened hours ago). This comes from a program using Tor as an HTTP proxy. It presents itself as a SOCKS proxy. If

Re: Google DNS

2009-12-03 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:04 -0500, Erilenz wrote: Google launched a free recursive DNS resolver service today: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns.html It doesn't hijack NXDOMAIN or do any other sort of filtering. Just thought I would mention it as the

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 02:51 +0300, James Brown wrote: In the context of the above information concerning the ban of Tor's nodes by the LJ (and in other such cases) I have an idea to provide in the Tor net for non-public exit-notes. This solution will be very, very useful for residents of the

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the list of relays directly, somebody could still make a lot of connections through Tor to a test site and build a list of the addresses they see. I guess we could

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

2009-11-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 13:48 +0100, Marco Bonetti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erilenz wrote: One thing you absolutely don't want to do is use a Hidden Service for your VPN as that doubles the number of hops in the circuit. but it raises the coolness of the whole

Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal

2009-10-22 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:23 +0400, jackwssp q wrote: I try with trial version of kaspersky, and nothing to fear. it's looks like just a warning about danger program. Are you saying that the anti-virus program warns that tor is a dangerous program? signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Random chaff [was: more work for Grobbages]

2009-09-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 04:25 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Nodes usually have a max bandwitch set. Nodes often comsume less than this. All node to node traffic is encrypted. Perhaps implement a random stream generator that only runs when it or its chosen path has free bandwidth, tags its traffic as

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 15:59 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: Could you explain what psyops refers to? Psychological operations? If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that perhaps he/his organization doesn't really have all the capabilities he implies, but that they're trying to scare people

Re: I Write Mass Surveillance Software

2009-09-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:01 -0400, Rich Jones wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9kwph/i_am_a_guy_who_writes_covert_software_that_runs/ Thoughts? also, I realized that two of the posts I've made this this list have now been reddit-related. Sorry about that. But I'd really like to

Re: Change Circuit

2009-09-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 20:42 -0300, Thiago PC wrote: Hi everybody. First of all, sorry if it has already been explained, I'm new here. I would like to know how to change the circuit that Tor is using (like the option Use a New Identity at Vidalia control panel). But I want to make this only

Re: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Ted Smith
There's a lot of FUD thrown around about how you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node, but I've ever only seen this one account. Are there any other accounts, or better yet, any actual numbers as to what percentage of tor node operators face significant legal harassment (not misplaced

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0200, ide...@riseup.net wrote: Quoting Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com: I'm sorry if I was unclear. I meant my statement as a question, namely: If we are not to use GMail, what mail service should we instead use? aktivix.org antifa.net autistici.org boum.org

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 14:55 -0400, grarpamp wrote: you can be absolutely certain that all your comms will be recorded/stored That's why there are things like VPN, IMAP/POP over SSL and StartTLS. Which only covers your transit to them. All your mail between providers is still wide open.

Re: Tor a carrier for Botnet traffic?

2009-09-01 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 16:20 +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: So; what should we do? Dis-allow hidden services in Tor? Or block Tor totally? Banning Tor will have no effect on botnets, as others on this list have pointed out. We should ban Windows, instead. signature.asc Description: This is

Re: Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:43 -0400, DM wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:36 PM, grarpamp wrote: I've had the same experience. A $10 pay as you go phone $10? Really? Which one and where? I see $20++ current models often, and some $15 tmo nokia 1208's still on clearance. works wonders for

Re: Supercookies

2009-08-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 08:55 +0200, Matej Kovacic wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this was on this list, but it is an interesting information: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/ it seems cookies could be respawned... And there is a plugin to remove

Re: Supercookies

2009-08-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:54 -0400, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 09:36:40 am Ted Smith wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 08:55 +0200, Matej Kovacic wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this was on this list, but it is an interesting information: http://www.wired.com

Re: Supercookies

2009-08-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:28 -0400, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 08/20/2009 10:09 AM, Ted Smith wrote: You don't lose most functionality by using free software. Not picking on Ted, but this whole thread is off-topic. Wait, what? The discussion of persistent, hidden, plugin-based storage is off

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Ted Smith
I'm on the list, Scott, you don't need send the message twice. On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 01:43 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:55 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-11 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:38 +0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, where socialist Internet policies have resulted in some

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:39 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: Verizon residential service is only available at my location if I also buy their telephone service, the combination of which would cost ~ $80/mo. and also require a 12-month contract. I have yet to get the details on Verizon

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they would charge more money for everyone and you would suffer more. Cheap internet access and serving is not some inherent human right, so let's not complain about the price of gas here.

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 13:22 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: A right is something someone should not be able to prevent you from doing, not something that should be provided to you. I believe that you have the right to be a space tourist if you want to be, but, of course, that does not imply

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:55 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:10 -0400 Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:28 -0700, Martin Fick wrote: If they couldn't do this, to stay competitive, they=20 would charge more money for everyone and you would=20

Re: Tor on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-08-04 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:49 +0200, Matej Kovacic wrote: Hi, I added APT line for Ubuntu Jaunty Tor installation: http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor jaunty I also added GPG key of Peter Palfrader (key ID=94C09C7F). However, I got this error: W: GPG error: http://mirror.noreply.org

Re: Tor on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-08-04 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:24 +0200, gabrix wrote: Ted Smith ha scritto: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:49 +0200, Matej Kovacic wrote: Hi, I added APT line for Ubuntu Jaunty Tor installation: http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor jaunty I also added GPG key of Peter Palfrader (key ID=94C09C7F

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-28 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:19 -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: I might be confused but I thought you were writing this for standard Linux installation? Do you mean I can use Ubuntu as the Linux OS? (re: My goal is to make a standard Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP installation) Thanks for your time

Re: Conspiracy: Piratebay owned by CIA (TOR involved, also)

2009-06-23 Thread Ted Smith
You can't contact them. They come to you after you run a high-bandwidth exit node for a few months or more, depending on your uptime and security profile. ;-) On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:17 -0400, krishna e bera wrote: Could someone post the contact addresses for cashing in? And perhaps some proof

Re: Help Iranian dissidents by collecting and posting Bridge addresses? (here?)

2009-06-18 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:06 +0200, marcel wrote: Ted Smith schrub in 1245290677.7339.8.ca...@stormbringer: It would probably be best to email it to a trusted Iranian organization or group, using OpenPGP encryption. They can disseminate it from there. which would be…? I wouldn't know. I'm

Re: Help Iranian dissidents by collecting and posting Bridge addresses? (here?)

2009-06-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:26 -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: Hi, I have been mounting a little movement to get people to run Tor and setup Tor Bridges to help those in Iran access the Internet. Then I found a great message which has been going around asking people to run Tor Bridges. So I

Re: Help Iranian dissidents by collecting and posting Bridge addresses? (here?)

2009-06-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 22:11 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:26:43PM -0700, Chris Humphry wrote: Please help...without proxies (ie. Bridges) the Iranian dissidents have no voice! Yeah, see, I'm not sure whether this is true. If ordinary bridges are working, then

Re: Bitblinder = Tor 2

2009-06-13 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 10:07 +0200, Max wrote: Tor 2 is out: www.bitblinder.com it is faster. why? everyone is an exitnode or forwarder. That will cause the network to stay at a very low level of popularity because ordinary users will be continually harassed because of malicious uses of the

Re: eliminating bogus port 43 exits

2009-06-13 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 13:48 -0600, Jon wrote: grarpamp wrote: One person's legit is another's bogus. It's always been that way. Other than routing, the use of the internet is partly chaos and it's not changing any time soon. Packets found on an internet, they exist, therefore they are,

Re: Tor bridge not generating any traffic

2009-06-13 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 22:24 +0200, sigi wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:19:31PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:23:33 +0200 Johannes Nitsche nitsc...@rambler.ru top-posted (please learn not to do that): broken thread (please learn not to do that - again and again)

Re: This doubletalk is driving me nuts

2009-06-04 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:28 -0400, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have just built and installed tor-0.2.1.15-rc in replacement for my previous 0.2.0.34 version. Nothing has changed from before this upgrade, not the location or entries in my torrc, not the perms on tor, not the perms on

Re: TOR and HADOPI

2009-05-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 10:05 +0200, Noiano wrote: cha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is anyone know where find an how to use TOR against HADOPI ? (Hadopi is the new law in france about P2P: if you download some music or movie with a P2P system, the provider will send you a mail to say

Re: Version checking (was Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory)

2009-04-28 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 03:01 -0700, Tripple Moon wrote: --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: From: Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu Subject: Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory To: or-talk@freehaven.net Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12:57 AM [cut for clarity]

Re: exit counts by port number over 61 days

2009-04-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:07 +0200, Gab wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 What about tor hidden free secure shells ? If you mean over hidden services, that won't involve a Tor exit, so it won't show up in these statistics. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: News from my Tor Server raid

2009-03-27 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:38 -0700, Kyle Williams wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: In any case, we still have a ways to go before all the law enforcement in the world understands Tor and Internet security in

Re: TBBundle, Browser javascript

2009-03-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:25 -0400, krishna e bera wrote: i wrote: However, javascript is not required for either Torbutton or Tor Browser Bundle functionality, so you can turn javascript off for additional security. Ack! For some reason i thought Torbutton was implemented purely in

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:24 -0400, Freemor wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:36:12 +0100 (CET) Marco Bonetti marco.bone...@slackware.it wrote: On Fri, February 20, 2009 15:02, Freemor wrote: As you can see at http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html#anchor18 the ip field

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 10:03 -0500, Fran Litterio wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to send an error message back to BT clients telling them how to properly combine bittorrent with Tor This implies

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-15 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 21:46 -0700, Jon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drake Wilson wrote: Quoth Jon scr...@datascreamer.com, on 2009-02-15 20:13:37 -0700: Have we thought of engaging the bittorrent community on blocking the tor nodes themselves. This would disrupt

Re: Some Bones to Pick with Tor Admins

2009-02-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:02 -0400, Freemor wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:50:27 -0500 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: (You need Torbutton 1.2 on Firefox to have any chance of safe browsing.) I know that his is a bit off topic so apologies in advance, By the above are you saying

Re: Some Bones to Pick with Tor Admins

2009-02-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:17 -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It absolutely would. Here are some things TorButton defends against that wouldn't be covered in your scenario: 1. Unauthenticated Updates 2. CSS Tracking (I think it does anyways) 3.

Re: Some Bones to Pick with Tor Admins

2009-02-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:51 -0700, mark485ander...@eml.cc wrote: Maybe not many users because Tor's last two versions are buggy and don't allow them to use it? Still plenty of 98se users out there and I have 3 browsers now that can use tor safely. course they will not work on .33 and .34

Re: Some Bones to Pick with Tor Admins

2009-02-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:26 -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:24:27PM -0500, Ted Smith wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:17 -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It absolutely would. Here are some things TorButton defends

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-05 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:03 +0100, Mitar wrote: But on the other hand I am seeing many e-mails like I would like to contribute to Tor but my ISP/university/mom does not allow me/has blocked me/does not want to hassle. So maybe those could cooperate in a way of putting together such nodes.

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-05 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 00:29 +0100, Mitar wrote: Hi! On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: TorProject has a paypal donations account that people (like those people who cannot run a node, but wish to contribute) can send donations to. Those donations, in turn

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-05 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 02:07 +0100, Mitar wrote: Hi! On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: Why put one node online when you could put hundreds online, by creating enough incentive to balance the potential risk of ISP complaints? I do not see those two ideas

Re: Am I really helping tor

2009-01-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 14:10 +0300, ivvmm wrote: Roger Dingledine wrote: But that said, you probably won't see much traffic on your ORPort either, yet, since you're a bridge. At this point, bridges are a future step on the blocking resistance arms race:

Re: Maximize Anonymity Services but Minimize 'Abuse Like' Behaviors...

2009-01-02 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 11:43 -0500, Erik Heidt wrote: Tor Gurus - So, I have just started running a Tor Relay. Currently I am in operating in bridge mode, with a exit policy that rejects all. I am concerned about having to deal with DCMA or other complaints, but I want to balance that

Re: another tor issue...? (irc...)

2008-12-30 Thread Ted Smith
If you run a Tor server, freenode will ban you. If you don't mind having a nym, you can send a username and password hash signed with a PGP key to t...@freenode.net, and then connect to their other .onion server, 5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onion. More info here: http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor On

Re: another tor issue...? (irc...)

2008-12-30 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:27 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Ted Smith wrote: If you run a Tor server, freenode will ban you. I have been for some time with no effects. Their messaging is not very clear to say the least. The only change I made was add an exit policy for irc recently. I

Re: TOS Violation - DMCA Complaint

2008-12-27 Thread Ted Smith
See http://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html.en , and http://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en#DMCA . You should contact the EFF if you need legal help. Note also that your ISP might have terms against running servers in your TOS, and so you might end up getting told to shut

Bypassing Internet Censorship

2008-12-04 Thread Ted Smith
FLOSS Manuals Release Circumvention Book, How To Bypass Internet Censorship December 4, 2008, Amsterdam A new book released by FLOSS Manuals, How to Bypass Internet Censorship, describes circumvention tools and explains why you might want to use them, and honestly describes the risks you must

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:39 +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: Robert Hogan wrote: Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc server's 'tor blocklist'. I don't think so, Freenode wouldn't send the error-message with 127.0.0.1 then, but with his public IP-address.

Re: OT RE: Limiting hops

2008-11-18 Thread Ted Smith
A VPN might be somewhat overkill to set up. You could just use an ssh tunnel to accomplish the same thing. It'd still be cross platform, but instead of configuring openvpn, it'd just be 'ssh -D port [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. This is what I do to get around wifi sniffers or school networks. On Tue,

Re: Positive uses of Anonymity

2008-11-08 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 10:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's great to see someone advocating for the positive uses of anonymity. http://icollaborate.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-jacovkis-on-anonymous-browsing.html and http://ms4kc75hlvnfcxgz.onion/ There shouldn't be any www on

Re: Positive uses of Anonymity

2008-11-08 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 23:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:29:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.8K bytes in 33 lines about: : http://icollaborate.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-jacovkis-on-anonymous-browsing.html : http://ms4kc75hlvnfcxgz.onion/ : : There

Re: DDoS attacks via TOR?

2008-11-05 Thread Ted Smith
In a similar vein, I've heard rumors of DDoS being attempted on hidden service targets. My initial reaction was that this would just DoS the network, but is there any chance I'm wrong? On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 07:12 +0600, Dmitriy Kazimirov wrote: Btw, about policy, I'm curious what will happen if

Re: GnuPG through Tor

2008-10-21 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:48 -0400, misc wrote: Is it possible to run GnuPG through Tor? (when connecting to LDAP and HKP servers to exchange keys)? The way I do it is: keyserver x-hkp://d3ettcpzlta6azsm.onion/ keyserver-options http_proxy=localhost:8118 keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve