cave updates, Qwest

2011-01-28 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all. i just wanted to give some updates regarding my router cave and experiences so far with running a Tor exit on my Qwest home DSL internet. Where we last left off, i had gotten permission from a Qwest representative to continue to run a Tor

Re: Fwd: Re: DMCA Infringement Notification: Copies of 14 complaints

2010-12-20 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 well, i think i have good news. although the rep from EFF said that my internet agreement could be construed to at least cause [me] problems with retaining [my] service, if not to win a lawsuit against [me] i decided to respond to Qwest's response

Re: Tor for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

2010-03-18 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 when i receive update for Tor in the update manager, update-manager, i see, This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs. down in the lower pane when i expand Description of update -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Tor for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

2010-03-15 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Runa Sandvik @ 03/13/2010 01:49 AM: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:01 AM, scar s...@drigon.com wrote: no repository yet? Sure, there is a repository for Ubuntu 9.10. I suggest that you take a look at https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

Tor for ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala

2010-03-12 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 no repository yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iEYEAREIAAYFAkubDhgACgkQXhfCJNu98qBrvQCgrcTWwsMzS+0R0/WDAJLRnSPi yeMAni3nOcQI3pnPk/dQ4l42BGkzEDIM =kMhb -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

2010-01-30 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Perry @ 01/28/2010 02:04 PM: After all, in normal operation, your history leaks one fuckload of a lot of bits. And that's a technical term. Sensitive ones too, like what diseases and genetic conditions you may have (via Google Health url

Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

2010-01-30 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 thanks for the suggestions, 7v5w7go9ub0o. i also read through [1] and am trying out the LinkStatus add-on[2]. it seems to work, and is kind of useful in that it tells me in the status bar the time i last visited a link. 1.

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Praedor Atrebates @ 11/20/2008 01:08 PM: [snip] Why does running tor suddenly cause me to be unable to connect to freenode? I am NOT running a torified irc client. if you have tor configured as an exit node on the same IP address, then

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 scar @ 11/23/2008 11:45 PM: Praedor Atrebates @ 11/20/2008 01:08 PM: [snip] Why does running tor suddenly cause me to be unable to connect to freenode? I am NOT running a torified irc client. if you have tor configured as an exit node

Re: Configure Filezilla 3.0.11 to use Tor.

2008-10-24 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Luis Maceira @ 2008/10/23 13:54: The steps to configure Filezilla 3.x to use Tor in http://www.torproject.org Toryfing apps... seem not correct as I can't find under Settings... the Generic Proxy to point to 127.0.0.1 port 9050.Only an ftp

Re: GnuPG through Tor

2008-10-21 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 misc @ 2008/10/21 08:21: I have a real problem downloading public keys of Hushmail users. I don't want to install java, which is required to download their keys through the browser. They don't propagate their keys to public HKP servers (which I

Re: GnuPG through Tor

2008-10-20 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 misc @ 2008/10/20 19:48: Is it possible to run GnuPG through Tor? (when connecting to LDAP and HKP servers to exchange keys)? LDAP: no, i don't think. HKP: yes, as that is just HTTP (or something). just define your http_proxy and https_proxy

Re: Embedded IM using Tor

2008-09-19 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 from what i understand, Torbutton should take care of this. make sure all of the crucial (or critical ... can't remember) settings are activated inside Torbutton. then, if your IM doesn't work, torbutton is doing its job. if your IM is working

Re: AVG + TOR = BARF

2008-08-22 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Grant Heller @ 2008/08/21 23:41: On 8/21/08, *John Mosgrove* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'm sure that yahoo is hardly a 'safe' place to email from/to, do you recommend any other potentially less compromise

Re: Gmail/SSL

2008-08-10 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jonathan Addington @ 2008/08/09 13:22: This is also on the Gmail blog, which notes that going to https://mail.google.com always had the same effect. (At least hopefully!) it did not have the same effect, unfortunately. ;) perhaps they are

Re: Abuse statistics

2008-08-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 2008/08/05 07:24: So the profilers feed the spammers? :-) what's with the happy face? you get a kick out of this, playing detective? most of us already assume this is happening. we don't need your statistics. as is said in

Re: [OT] message formats (was: browser footprint)

2008-07-22 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Scott Bennett @ 2008/07/22 23:21: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:02:10 +0200 Ansgar Wiechers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-07-21 Scott Bennett wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:24:22 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?Tom=C3=A1s_Arribas?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exit node connection statistics

2008-07-17 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 2008/07/17 09:03: Dominik Schaefer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Can you explain what the threat scenario is for what I'm doing? One possible issue comes to my mind here. You mentioned, you delete your logs after 24h (after

Re: Idle client bandwidth usage

2008-07-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ringo Kamens @ 2008/07/05 15:06: Dawney Smith wrote: Hello, Are there any figures on how much bandwidth an idle tor client uses just to tick over? Ie, when it's not actually being used. Also, are there any configuration parameters that can be

[ot] Firefox ( Thunderbird) makes unrequested connections

2008-06-28 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 See [1] and especially [2] and [3] (which also apply to Thunderbird). 1. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+makes+unrequested+connections 2. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+makes+unrequested+connections#Link_prefetching 3.

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

2008-06-25 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 F. Fox @ 2008/06/26 02:39: 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (snip) This actually creates another question (not to be argumentative :-) ). Given that there is no exit node, would an OnionCat to OnionCat connection over TOR need to be encrypted? Is it

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

2008-06-12 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 2008/06/12 21:22: Hi, How does one search the archives, via. some google trick? yes. you can use site:archives.seul.org/or/talk search terms -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: How are hackers breaking Tor and trojan users?

2008-06-11 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert Hogan @ 2008/06/11 18:48: 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

Re: How do we defeat exit node sniffing?

2008-06-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 defcon @ 2008/06/06 02:20: for http connections im worried about cookie sidejacking as well since some sites only authenticate via https and set a cookie, what can we do in this regard? there's nothing to do in this case either. you have to

Re: Torbutton 1.1.18-alpha released

2008-04-21 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 when i click on the history menu, my history is displayed, even though block history reads during tor is checked. before, with 1.1.17, i am pretty sure, the history menu would come up blank. is this ok? thx. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: A Question to people from UK

2008-04-18 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dave Page @ 2008/04/18 06:19: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:11:52PM +0200, Hans Schnehl wrote: I was told in the UK you are obliged to deliver your private gpg/pgp keys to the authorities as soon as you use one of these programs for yourself.

[ot] wikileaks

2008-04-15 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 does anyone know what's happened to wikileaks.org? https://secure.wikileaks.org has usually worked, but i cannot even access the service using any of the 15-20 other cover names i've bookmarked nor the tor hidden service each request just times

Re: [ot] wikileaks

2008-04-15 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Gigg @ 2008/04/15 06:13: Hi Got to Wikileaks with this link http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks and that doesn't even work, at the moment. so, even the many different wikileaks servers and hostnames around the world cannot hold up to

Re: Defeat Exit Node Sniffing?

2008-03-08 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bill Weiss @ 2008/03/06 17:42: Better Gmail 2 [1] claims to force SSL on all gmail connections. I haven't tested it to verify that it is correct. Sorry, no general-case solution, just some help for the Gmail users :) [1]

Re: Defeat Exit Node Sniffing?

2008-03-05 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 defcon @ 2008/03/02 19:02: | What is a good way to enforce a good cookie policy | for firefox? this was discussed a bit not too long ago.[1] check that thread for some useful links as well. i learned that cookies have a security attribute which

Re: Defeat Exit Node Sniffing?

2008-03-05 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris Palmer @ 2008/03/05 17:05: | scar writes: | | i also learned, that by using a cookie editor, you cannot force a cookie | to be sent over an encrypted connection. | | Which cookie editor(s) did you try? I use Add 'n' Edit Cookies, a Firefox

Re: Defeat Exit Node Sniffing?

2008-03-02 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris Palmer @ 2008/03/02 14:15: | defcon writes: | | I have been using tor for a while now, and I absolutely love it, although | the only thing keeping me from using it, is the insecurities of the exit | nodes. I know to truly stay anonymous you

Re: tor and google-error

2008-02-10 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 like others have said, scroogle ssl is probably the way to go. however, it doesn't seem to handle special google queries yet (like define:foo or convert 1 gram to lbs, etc.). so, if you must use google (see below) Roger Dingledine @ 2008/02/08

U.S. Launches Internet Anti-Censorship Effort

2008-01-15 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 something for the EFF to consider? The U.S. Congress is funding a modest assault on the great firewall of China. The newly approved budget for the U.S. State Department includes $15 million for developing “anti-censorship tools and services”

[OT] Anonymous payment [was Re: shinjiru closed exit node acceptnolimits]

2008-01-09 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 accept no limits @ 2008/01/03 12:41: shinjiru explicitly allows anonymous hosting. how does anonymous money transfer work in this case? I got this question in personal mails after my posting, too. yes this is a rather useful topic. So

j0ryeqmd

2007-12-29 Thread scar
when using IRC over Tor, very often my ident is munged into that string. once is understandable. the peculiar part is how, if i change Tor circuits (exit node also) and reconnect, i'm connected with that same ident. it's not constrained to just one IRC network either: it appears to happen

Re: Tor/Vidalia hangs

2007-10-04 Thread scar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 2007/10/03 16:19: Have more people experienced this bug, or am I the only one experiencing this? i have experienced this also on my windows xp box. i think it's an issue with vidalia. for me, it has been occurring for a few versions of vidalia now. i've never had tor

Re: a changing network security landscape is difficult for even the biggest tech companies to wrestle with

2007-09-13 Thread scar
coderman @ 2007/09/10 18:16: 0. Web sites may transmit authentication tokens unencrypted http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466433 ... still no progress, with the companies in question dragging their feet... 1. World's biggest websites no match for decade-old web bug

Re: Remote Vulnerability in Firefox Extensions

2007-08-01 Thread scar
coderman @ 2007/06/21 11:33: On 6/21/07, scar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... it seems to me that many addons which are downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/ use different, non-https, addresses to check for and download updates. the problem exists when non https is used for updates. any

Re: flash in a stand-alone player

2007-07-27 Thread scar
Arrakis @ 2007/07/26 22:39: The question is if the stand-alone player, just like regular flash player, phones home without regard to your proxy settings. if that's the only concern, then one need only an open-source flash .swf player. such a thing exist? or perhaps a firefox plugin that

flash in a stand-alone player

2007-07-26 Thread scar
OK, we all know the threats of watching flash .swf in the browser. but, what about downloading the .swf via Tor and watching it in a stand-alone player? no more threat to anonymity, or not? thanks. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

hijacked session anomaly?

2007-07-23 Thread scar
after anonymously replying to a thread in the mozillazine forums (that is to say, i was not logged in, cookies and javascript disabled also), i found my post to be registered to a user as if it was posted by that user. i was also logged in with this user's credentials and could view their

Re: Remote Vulnerability in Firefox Extensions

2007-06-21 Thread scar
coderman @ 2007/05/30 00:00: it would be trivial for a rogue exit to use this technique. public wifi users should also take note. check your firefox extensions! http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/05/remote-vulnerability-in-firefox.html A vulnerability exists in the upgrade mechanism

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ROCKate Tor LiveCD V0.4.0.0

2007-06-21 Thread scar
Benjamin Schieder @ 2007/06/21 10:03: On 21.06.2007 05:11:24, JT wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0200, Benjamin Schieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just put out ROCKate 0.4.0.0. Could you include truecrypt in the next version ? I already thought about encryption. I plan to use it for

Re: Some of my observations on runing new alpha version of Tor

2007-06-13 Thread scar
Przemyslaw Orzechowski @ 2007/06/13 12:46: Ok first i will attempt to translatie the complete error message: Event type: Error Event source: Service Control Manager Event category:None Event Id:7023 Date: 2007-06-10 Time:13:12:46 User: None

Re: Some of my observations on runing new alpha version of Tor

2007-06-13 Thread scar
just to be clear, that path to executable should be: C:\Program Files\Tor\tor.exe --nt-service sorry if the extra quotes were confusing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: All authorities have failed. Not trying any.

2007-06-03 Thread scar
Roger Dingledine @ 2007/05/31 15:35: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:32:37PM -0700, scar wrote: while Tor is still able to build circuits, it doesn't seem to be able to download updated lists of routers. then, after several days, there is no way for Tor to build circuits. is this related

All authorities have failed. Not trying any.

2007-05-31 Thread scar
i am getting this message on the same system which uses the __AllDirActionsPrivate, that is, WinXP now running the 0.1.2.14 version of Tor. it shows every minute: [Info] update_networkstatus_client_downloads(): Our most recent network-status document (from nobody) is 1180650256 seconds old;

Re: bootstrapping and __alldiractionsprivate

2007-05-13 Thread scar
scar @ 2007/05/05 00:53: i seem to be having trouble with this. i am using 0.1.2.13-win32. if i first start tor without __alldiractionsprivate, everything works as expected. then i add __alldiractionsprivate to torrc and reload. i have it running on a laptop that gets shut off

bootstrapping and __alldiractionsprivate

2007-05-05 Thread scar
i seem to be having trouble with this. i am using 0.1.2.13-win32. if i first start tor without __alldiractionsprivate, everything works as expected. then i add __alldiractionsprivate to torrc and reload. i have it running on a laptop that gets shut off frequently, but it gets access to the

HttpProxy

2007-04-22 Thread scar
reading this has caused me to question my setting __AllDirActionsPrivate, and i see this option is not even in the man page. should i be using HttpProxy, or some other setting? or, is __AllDirActionsPrivate still valid? using 0.1.2.12-rc. thanks. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Another Method to Block Java Hijinks

2007-04-13 Thread scar
norvid @ 2007/04/05 17:18: On 4/5/07, James Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: norvid wrote: On 4/5/07, James Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: norvid wrote: snip I've heard that properly configuring a firewall can be tricky. In any case, using a firewall still doesn't protect from Java