[RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tor folks, on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 relays in 2010!« On IRC arma discovered an offer by the British ISP Coldbot where you can buy 1 Mb/s bandwidth for £9 per month [2]. Although it is quite pricey I find the idea very nice. »I guess for people

Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 13:27 +0100 schrieb Karsten Loesing: […] I figured out the problem. The metrics portal had the bridge user numbers from 2009-11-30 to 2010-01-05 imported twice. This affected all countries, but was simply most visible for Chinese bridge users. I removed those

Re: Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Flamsmark
On 10 March 2010 07:42, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.netwrote: So my next question is, why did the users count drop that much in the beginning of March? At the beginning of March, the great firewall of China blocked all (then) known tor exits and relays, and a substantial number

Re: Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:06 -0500, Flamsmark flamsm...@gmail.com wrote: :At the beginning of March, the great firewall of China blocked all (then) :known tor exits and relays, and a substantial number of bridges - presumably :enumerated over a prior, somewhat extended period. This is our

Re: Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March

2010-03-10 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 3/10/10 5:20 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:06 -0500, Flamsmark flamsm...@gmail.com wrote: :At the beginning of March, the great firewall of China blocked all (then) :known tor exits and relays, and a substantial number of bridges - presumably :enumerated over a prior,

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:26:00 +0100, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: :on the Tor start page [1] there is a message »Help us reach 5,000 : relays in 2010!« :»I guess for people caring about privacy but not wanting/able to set up :a server themselves can now be told, you can pay

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread starslights
Hello peoples, For my part i am on searching where rent a server for a nicely price to can make again stats on a exit for helping Tor. So any interessant propositions are welcome. As i will offer a constant stats for Karsten and offer a clean exit who are always good to have. Any

Re: tor 0.2.1.24 crashes on Sparc-Solaris10

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas . Hluchnik
Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb Roger Dingledine: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:23:30PM +0100, thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de wrote: When starting tor it comes up but crashes within one minute. Try these: http://freehaven.net/~arma/tor-0.2.1.24-dev.tar.gz

Re: tor 0.2.1.24 crashes on Sparc-Solaris10

2010-03-10 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:47 PM, thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de wrote: Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb Roger Dingledine: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:23:30PM +0100, thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de wrote: When starting tor it comes up but crashes within one minute. Try these:

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
While I understand your concern I disagree since we're already in this boat. I'm currently running a relay with Comcast as my ISP, and if I was going to run an exit I'd go back to the past list correspondence about low-hassle (tor friendly) hosting solutions. In both cases my ISP or hosting

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/Sponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread Damian Johnson
StrangeCharm and I just had an interesting conversation about this. In short, while this suggestion would diversify trust it would also reduce the entropy of node selection. Not sure which is more important (I'd suspect the former, but could be argued). Cheers! -Damian (09:30:17 PM) StrangeCharm:

Re: [RFC] Campaign »Buy/S ponsor a relay.«

2010-03-10 Thread andrew
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:24:54PM -0800, atag...@gmail.com wrote 8.3K bytes in 180 lines about: : Hence, as long as any hosting entity properly set the 'Family' parameter, I : think we should welcome this sort of hired-relay-operation. The proper : countermeasure for this problem (imho) would be