Tor-ramdisk 20091123 (i686) and 20091124 (MIPS) released

2009-11-24 Thread basile
Hi everyone, I want to announce to the list that new rleases of tor-ramdisk are out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686 and MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhenced by hardening the

livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB. That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because many

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Mearns
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM, James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB.

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
James Brown wrote: The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB. That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because many Russian oppositionists

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: James Brown wrote: The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB. That decision of Russian powers

AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 countries

(FWD) Vidalia bundle upgrade fails on OS X

2009-11-24 Thread Roger Dingledine
[Forwarding since this address isn't subscribed to the list. I also took the liberty of changing the subject line -- I suspect the problem is that you had an old install of the Vidalia bundle on your OS X, and you tried to upgrade to the new drag-and-drop one. You should instead uninstall the old

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: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
James Brown wrote: Jacob Appelbaum wrote: James Brown wrote: The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB. That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was

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: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Damian Johnson
Interesting idea, but seems like it could be pretty dangerous. If an attacker was able to figure out the subset of Tor users taking advantage of these special exits and ran one themselves then correlation probably wouldn't be too difficult. In addition, abuse issues makes finding exit operators a

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Kyle Williams
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: James Brown wrote: Jacob Appelbaum wrote: James Brown wrote: The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company SUP by order of Putin and FSB. That decision of

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Flamsmark
I'm not sure that the correlation attacks for `bridge exits' are better than those for normal bridges. However, the `exit risk' would likely be more discouraging to such `bridge exits'. However, as a more general question, making the Tor network difficult to completely enumerate might be

Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-24 Thread Flamsmark
A number of Danish ISPs have blocked thepiratebay.org, by redirecting the DNS entry for that domain to a page stating that the site is blocked. This sometimes results in Danish exits giving this inappropriate result for that domain. Should the IP addresses of those ISPs be automatically given the

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:51:57AM +0300, James Brown wrote: Alas, livejournal's hand here might be forced by their new owners. In that case, the only answer I can think of is for everybody in the affected countries to

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Hello again, In summary: Mike Perry and I just had a visit to the San Francisco Livejournal office. The servers at LJ are currently being abused by two users in Russia. They are currently blocking access to all of the

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Smith wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I think this is what the

Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:09:16 +0300 James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote: Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:51:57AM +0300, James Brown wrote: Alas, livejournal's hand here might be forced by their new owners. In that case, the only answer I can think of is for