Re: Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-11 Thread krishna e bera
Bugs tend to get fixed faster and/or more efficiently when they are entered into the bug tracking system. I copied this email into a new one at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2542 It would be helpful if you can add information such as your - Operating system version - Tor

Re: cease and desist from my vps provider...

2011-02-03 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 05:59:03PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 05:36:09PM +0100, Andrea Trentini wrote: self suggestion: I asked hetzner if they accept a tor node, they told me yes, but you're responsible (of course) Interesting. Hetzner is officially down on

Re: System time in anonymity oriented LiveCDs

2011-01-12 Thread krishna e bera
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:06:44PM +0100, anonym wrote: Hi list, Liberté Linux has a novel solution to this problem[4] -- it sets the system time according to the Tor consensus' valid-after/until values, which essentially removes Tor's time skew check. We T(A)ILS developers are tempted to

Re: Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha is out (security patches)

2010-12-20 Thread krishna e bera
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Justin Aplin wrote: Because I like to tinker, and since the PPC version of Vidalia is out of date, I'd thought about building Vidalia itself from source, but http:// www.vidalia-project.net/ isn't working for me. Is the current source publicly

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread krishna e bera
How are bitcoins relevant to Tor? Can a relay generate them just by processing traffic? *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Re: Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - their comments on Tor and SSL - I don't understand.

2010-10-27 Thread krishna e bera
The bad advice may be a misinterpretation or poor rephrasing of this advice in the Tor FAQ Wiki: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#WhyisitbettertoprovideahiddenserviceWebsitewithHTTPratherthanHTTPSaccess

Re: 0.2.2.17 issue?

2010-10-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:30:27PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Hello, 0.2.2.15 ran fine on my Fedora 13 box. 0.2.2.17 has exited twice without much reason... Any ideas why? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#MyTorkeepscrashing.

Re: StrictNodes

2010-10-05 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:57:42PM +0100, Geoff Down wrote: [warn] The configuration option 'StrictExitNodes' is deprecated; use 'StrictNodes' instead. It would help if such an option were documented in https://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en or shipped in the expert install package.

Re: tor-proxy.net is official proxy site of TOR? [Sorry, i meant to say http://torproxy.net/]

2010-07-22 Thread krishna e bera
That new site does not respond. Also, the same design flaw applies to ANY remote web-based proxy: it is a single concentrator and can thus is a magnet to be attacked or have its incoming connections monitored. If the connections are SSL (https) it might be slightly more difficult to snoop on,

Re: Fwd: Posting of links to inappropriate sites on children's website via Tor

2010-06-28 Thread krishna e bera
some alternatives that dont require blocking Tor: - authenticate new members by non-electronic means - disallow posting of links by new members - moderate content On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:10:28AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: (Forwarded with permission) Original Message

Re: Reducing relays = reducing anonymity ? Tortunnel.

2010-05-21 Thread krishna e bera
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:21:15PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number of relays ? Yes, unfortunately quite a few people use it. It

Re: Tor-friendly dedicated hosting

2010-04-17 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Bill Weiss wrote: My apologies if there's some canonical source for this I'm missing. I didn't see anything in the archives of the list for the last couple of months, and I don't remember seeing anything like this any time recently. ... My

Re: TOR Not Starting after upgrade

2010-04-15 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:45:56PM -0500, Edward Langenback wrote: I've just upgraded to vidalia-bundle-0.2.1.25-0.2.7.exe and now TOR is not starting at all. I've tried a full uninstall-reinstall with no changes. Any ideas what the problem is? I'm still getting the same behavior after

Re: Anti-Virus software for windows server

2010-03-21 Thread krishna e bera
Though the comic makes a good point, some people are coerced by circumstances into running such software. There is Free virus scanner called clamwin http://www.clamwin.com/ but it can only scan and remove, it does not block activity. Since Windows Server users have money for licenses most

Re: can i ask questions about privoxy here...?

2010-01-02 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Gitano wrote: emigrant wrote: is that possible? Which question(s) beside 'http://www.privoxy.org/faq/index.html'? see also http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en#polipo there is a sample Privoxy config for use with Tor

Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-01 Thread krishna e bera
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 06:39:39PM +, M wrote: thanks for the info. I understand that it cant be safer than the real stuff, but objectively, i do� believe its safer than other online proxies, such as anonymouse? Am i correct? It may even be less safe because it is a single

Re: Pidgin with TOR

2009-12-31 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:37:26PM +0530, emigrant wrote: i am using the pidgin with ubuntu. and i installed TOR as well. i want to set up TOR to one of the yahoo accounts in pidgin. so i went to proxy settings and changed the gnome proxy setttings into socks5 and host 127.0.0.1 and port 9050.

Re: Pidgin with TOR

2009-12-31 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:30:57AM -0500, krishna e bera wrote: Also, the link you quoted in your other message is out of date - we do not use the wiki on noreply.org anymore. Sorry, it was Freemor who gave the old URL. Yahoo instant messaging on Pidgin under Ubuntu seems to work via Tor

Re: Location privacy preserving location based service with Tor

2009-12-31 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:33:49AM -0500, 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

Re: Why governments fund TOR?

2009-12-30 Thread krishna e bera
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:49:12PM +0530, arshad wrote: forgive me for my ignorance. are you having difficulties reading the website or understanding some pages, perhaps due to your native language? may i know why governmetns fund TOR. i read 49% funds coming from government. TOR is usually

Re: legislative problem in Slovakia

2009-12-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:48:54PM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 10/26/2009 08:54 AM, Vita Cizek wrote: In September, the Slovak Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunication prepared an amendment of the Electronic Communication Act. The Ministry of Internal Affairs integrated their

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

2009-11-19 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46:12AM -0500, Erilenz wrote: This is one of those ideal/practical arguments. Idealistically, Tor would only have 3 hop circuits and those who want simple circumvention wouldn't use it. That doesn't make it the practical truth of what is happening though. Even if

Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet.

2009-11-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29:26PM -0500, Brian Mearns wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM, John Case c...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: [clip] I'd like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation--Internet passports, Internet police

Re: (FWD) Load external content? message seems inappropriate

2009-11-02 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:23:24AM -0400, downie - wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:17:13 -0400 From: a...@mit.edu To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: (FWD) Load external content? message seems inappropriate [Forwarding to the list since this address isn't subscribed.

Re: Tor a carrier for Botnet traffic?

2009-09-01 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:20:42PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: Hi, The Tor anonimity network is a generic carrier for all kinds of (TCP) traffic. Its goal is enabling people to use the internet without anyone between them and the destination point being able to determine what is

Re: Doubt

2009-08-11 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 01:23:40PM -0300, Wilson Goes wrote: Using TOR Is there any way to garantee that I will receive diferent IP adress every time during a periodo off 24 hours ? If you also use Vidalia or Tork or another Tor controller you can tell it to get a new identity or send the

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread krishna e bera
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: [...] to the cablemodem. I was told that having *any* ports open facing the Internet was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for residential accounts. [...] This would be crippling if true - residential VOIP and

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

2009-06-23 Thread krishna e bera
Could someone post the contact addresses for cashing in? And perhaps some proof that they do (or do not) pay? On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:55:57PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Tom Hek spake: On Jun 23, 2009, at 15:01 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote: At $0.20USD/MB I was able to supplement my

Re: Help Iranian dissidents

2009-06-20 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:01:27PM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Karsten N. [1]tor-ad...@privacyfoundation.de wrote: And I hope, tor will stay political neutral. IMHO, Tor is, much like any other software, a tool. A tool is used to accomplish

Re: Tor query

2009-05-21 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:30:45PM +0100, Steffan Wood wrote: What is the link to manage Tor mailing lists? (delete account, set digest format etc) or-talk is a Majordomo mailing list, so management of your subscription is done by emailing to majord...@seul.org with no subject and the body

Re: TBBundle, Browser javascript

2009-03-24 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:57:49PM +, Lee wrote: I'm trying out the Tor Browser Bundle, and I see Javascript is enabled in the browser. Can I turn this off or is that option required left on for certain functionality in the bundle? Torbutton, when enabled, protects you from many

Re: TBBundle, Browser javascript

2009-03-24 Thread krishna e bera
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 XUL but a lot of it is actually implemented in javascript. Sorry

Re: Abuse ticket

2009-03-16 Thread krishna e bera
I have gotten two abuse complaints relating to posting of spam onto Craigslist via my Tor exit node. In each case i sent the complainant and my ISP a note about Tor (modified EFF DMCA response) as well as a suggestion that part of the problem is the website's failure to require users to

Re: Some Tor w/ Firefox Questions

2009-01-03 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:15:15PM +0100, sigi wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:26:57AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote: 3. One of the common criticisms of NoScript+Tor is that a malicious exit node can pretend to be any site it wishes. What about enabling js on file:// urls? If I

Re: Need help with MPAA threats

2008-12-21 Thread krishna e bera
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:00:38PM -0800, Curious Kid wrote: Industry organization putting pressure on Tor exit node operators to filter leads to chilling effects. As nodes start to filter, that traffic will seek out non-filtering exits. That would work like a funnel, as a majority of

Re: SSH and Telnet ports

2008-12-14 Thread krishna e bera
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:36:13AM -0800, Christopher Davis wrote: How practical is SSH password cracking over Tor? Wouldn't the latency deter attackers? SSH password attacks from single sources can be deterred with watcher programs such as Fail2Ban which modify the firewall to discard

Re: Need help with MPAA threats

2008-12-13 Thread krishna e bera
It is unlikely that the content in question was ever on your computer at all, because Tor does not transfer UDP packets (used by bittorrent for data) and the default exit policy rejects the common bittorrent ports. The MPAA investigators are likely seeing the Tor users' access to the tracker

Re: German data rentention law

2008-10-19 Thread krishna e bera
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:45:22PM +0200, Dominik Schaefer wrote: As already said, much more difficult is the part about anonymizing services, which brings us right to the still missing 'technical directive'. That will define the specifics: who is exempted (e.g. WLAN hotspots in hotels are

Re: Abuse complaint

2008-10-07 Thread krishna e bera
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Michael Holstein wrote: [...] http://help.twcable.com/html/twc_misp_aup.html However, like many ISPs, it still contains this clause : The ISP Service may not be used to breach or attempt to breach the security, the computer, the software or the

Re: how much does opera leak?

2008-10-05 Thread krishna e bera
This is not a site, it is a mailing list. In every message that appears on this list, you will find a header with the instructions you seek. The header starts like this: X-To-Get-Off-This-List If you are using flawed email software such as Microsoft Outlook Express, you may have to select

Re: browser footprint

2008-07-11 Thread krishna e bera
Thanks for running a check site and helping with privacy/anonymity! I believe torbutton does this sort of scrubbing. You can see what it does and why at https://torbutton.torproject.org/dev/design/ It would be nice to have a torbutton for Konqueror.

Re: No Tor server exists that allows exit to 127.0.0.1:80. Rejecting.

2008-07-07 Thread krishna e bera
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:12:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed this in my tor client log [Tor v0.2.0.28-rc (r15188) with SafeLogging 0 in torrc]: [notice] No Tor server exists that allows exit to 127.0.0.1:80. Rejecting. [snip] like this. -

Re: (Windows) does e-mail scanning with AVG Free work for all unsecured mails going through Tor?

2008-07-06 Thread krishna e bera
AVG (and other antivirus software) inserts a proxy that catches the email traffic you mention. The risk with any examining or altering of traffic is that you may be giving up your legal and moral claim to status as a common carrier or safe harbour which is perhaps the only thing protecting you

Re: icann opening up of tld's

2008-06-28 Thread krishna e bera
According to the announcement: Trademarks will not be automatically reserved. But there will be an objection-based mechanism for trademark owners where their arguments for protection will be considered. How expensive or practical is it to trademark .onion for purposes of the Tor network?

Re: Blocked by my ISP?-Solved.But Additional Question.

2008-06-21 Thread krishna e bera
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:13:02PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: The question: can I use the FQDN or IP preferably, instead of nicknames,in torrc entrynodes,exclude nodes,exitnodes options?I have read something lately about the functioning of the Tor system, and it seems the directory

Re: ktorrent and tor

2008-06-19 Thread krishna e bera
Please explain how these clients can be used to spy the Tor network. I think the only risk of exposing real ip adddresses would be to other users of bittorrent. The latest version of KTorrent is supposed to support socks5 directly, but we do not want the data packets going over the Tor network

Re: Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha is out

2008-06-17 Thread krishna e bera
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:37AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13 o Memory fixes and improvements: - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c, to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools. - Speed up

Re: SPD talk: Simulating a Global Passive Adversary for Attacking Tor-like Anonymity Systems?

2008-06-13 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:26:48PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: 3. Based on my measurements last year, only the top ~5-10% nodes are capable of transmitting this much data in an individual stream, and only if all of the nodes in your path are from this set. Furthermore, as load balancing improves

Re: Phish filters on exit nodes

2008-06-13 Thread krishna e bera
Would it be useful to add an item to the Step Three: Once it's working document https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en#after such as 18. Protect your exit node's reputation by ensuring that its DNS resolution isn't hijacked. Examples: - if you use OpenDNS, turn off the

Re: How are hackers breaking Tor and trojan users?

2008-06-10 Thread krishna e bera
You allege there is an exploitable flaw in current Tor versions and have not informed Tor developers of details yet?? I would hope DefCon does not accept presenters having such ethics. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:50:10PM -0500, Arrakis wrote: Yes, it can be done. If the talk is accepted at