Re: or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
A final reminder that this migration occurs today. On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:35:14 -0500 Andrew Lewman wrote: > A reminder that this migration occurs this week. > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:05:03 -0500 > Andrew Lewman wrote: > > > Hello or-talk subscribers, > > >

Re: or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
A reminder that this migration occurs this week. On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:05:03 -0500 Andrew Lewman wrote: > Hello or-talk subscribers, > > On February 19, 2011, we are migrating or-talk from or-t...@seul.org > to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. We will migrate your e-mail

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:09:56 -0500 (EST) scroo...@lavabit.com wrote: > I've been fighting two different Tor users for a week. Each is > apparently having a good time trying to see how quickly they > can get results from Scroogle searches via Tor exit nodes. I've talked to a few services that do o

Re: Proposal for making Tor TLS stand out less

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
There is a fine thread on or-dev about this, starting here, http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Jan-2011/msg00029.html -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk

Re: Per-Tab Torbutton

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:25:30 -0500 Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: > Is it possible to have Torbutton activate Tor only on specified tabs > and not others? It would make Tor much more useful. Mike can answer this better, but I believe the main problem with this is that Firefox doesn't have a per-tab referen

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
In my opinion, judging a relay based on exit policy is a slippery slope we don't want to go down. We never claim to make using Tor alone safer than using the Internet at large. Whether the creep is at Starbucks sniffing the wifi or running a relay is irrelevant to me. Encouraging people to use e

Re: Polipo bug reporting

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:20:10 + "Geoff Down" wrote: > Thank you Juliusz, I appreciate your efforts. > Clearly Tor needs to ship with a working Polipo, so if this is a real > fault would the bundle developers please revert to the version which > was in the Vidalia 0.2.9 bundle, which is still w

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:15:17 + Matthew wrote: > I'm still not getting this. My understanding is that you have the > data and the header when using TCP. If only the data is encrypted > then what happens to the headers? Does this image help at all? https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/pre

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:46:20 +0100 Jan Weiher wrote: > This node looks suspicious to me, because there is no contact info > given and the exit policy allows only unencrypted traffic: It hasn't shown up in any of the exit scans as suspicious. Lack of contact info isn't a concern. The exit policy

Re: Tor exits in .edu space

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:51:56 -0500 Flamsmark wrote: > I run a Tor exit node because I support the ubiquitous availability > of strong anonymity for anyone who wants it. Tor is one of the > strongest, best- researched, and most widely-used online anonymity > system, and I want to help keep it runni

or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
Hello or-talk subscribers, On February 19, 2011, we are migrating or-talk from or-t...@seul.org to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. We will migrate your e-mail address's subscription to the new list. You will receive a confirmation from the new mailing list software on the 19th. Current or-talk ar

Re: polipo-tor deb/ubuntu native package

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:21:56 -0800 travis+ml-tor-t...@subspacefield.org wrote: > > The real answer is to fix firefox so it doesn't need a proxy > > between it and Tor. We patch firefox to do just this in the osx > > and linux tor browser bundles. Polipo was a fine kludge until > > either we start

Re: geeez...

2011-01-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:29:49 +0100 Dirk wrote: > But I wan't a legally binding statement from a lawyer or an official > (BSI) that running TOR exit nodes in germany is legal. Ask the CCC for a start. They have defended many Germans already. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: Index of hidden services?

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:22:58 -0600 Peter McCann wrote: > On the website describing how to set up a hidden service > I saw a mention of a (hypothetical?) "Hidden Services Wiki" > where pointers to hidden services are stored. Does such a wiki exist? > If so, where can I find it? Years ago, there w

Re: Home Internet with Anonymity Built In

2011-01-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:55:32 +0800 Trystero Lot wrote: > will this work with linksys ata specially 3102? We're just adding a correct tor configuration to openwrt. If openwrt supports your device, then our tor mods should as well. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: Tor and google groups

2011-01-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:18:09 + Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: > Is it very difficult to buy a SIM without showing ID in the USA or > countries of Western Europe? Sorry for such off topic but it is very > interesting to know are there any countries in Western Europe or > states of the USA when it is

Re: Tor & Email?

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:02:34 -0500 grarpamp wrote: > > We've generally suggested gmail because their bulk account creation > > process was good. It seems this is not the case any more. > > What is this bulk account creation you speak of? Gmail used to have the ability to stop bots from creating

Re: Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha is out

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:25:25 + Matthew wrote: > In System / Administration / Software Sources / Authentication there > is an deb.torproject.org archive signing key dated 2009-09-04 with > the value 886DDD89. This is correct. > Am I correct to think that this key sufficient to verify updates

Re: Tor-node failed

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:29:58 + Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: > Last time my tor-node regularry fails. How can I debug causes of it? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#MyTorkeepscrashing. The text at that url is a fine start. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: Anonymity easily thwarted by flooding network with relays?

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:19:03 -0800 "Theodore Bagwell" wrote: > Some of you may be aware of the paper,"Cyber Crime Scene > Investigations (C2SI) through Cloud Computing" > (http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/SPCC10_Fu.pdf) which > illustrates a feasible method of invalidating the anonymity affo

Re: Scalability and fairness [was: P2P over Tor [was: Anomos - anonBT]]

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:03:58 -0500 grarpamp wrote: > Wish the mbox or maildir archives were available/mirrored for easy > search, reading, reference and reply using native mail clients :) ...I wish people would stop cross-posting between -dev and -talk...;) -- Andrew pgp 0x31B0974B ***

Re: Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha is out

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:11:44 -0500 Justin Aplin wrote: > I agree that dropping the expert packages might be a good idea, but > I don't see a reason that the Vidalia bundles should fall behind. The reason for the delay in packages is the powerpc build machine died a melting death when the internal

Re: can I only use 3 bridges in torrc ? thx

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:59:47 +0800 waterloo wrote: > can I only use 3 bridges in torrc ? thx You can use many more than 3. Tor will see if they are reachable and use those that are working. I've seen people with 50 configured in vidalia. -- Andrew pgp 0x31B0974B **

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

2010-10-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:19:02 +0100 Matthew wrote: > There is a "Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers Guide" available at > http://ht4w.co.uk/. The first problem is the content is actually served up by hostingprod.com and not ht4w.co.uk. As far as the content in question, it is dangerously wrong

Re: vidalia source tarball is missing

2010-10-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:21:30 +0300 Erdem Bayer wrote: > Hi > > After last website update, vidalia source tarball link goes missing > from this address: > > http://www.torproject.org/projects/dist/vidalia-0.2.9.tar.gz > > However it is still referred on this page, but the download link is > bro

Re: StrictNodes

2010-10-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:57:42 +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: beneficia versus maleficia

2010-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:58:15 -0500 David Bennett wrote: > I am facing a moral dilemma in regards to joining the tor proxy > network. I am hoping a discussion may alleviate some of my concerns. It seems what you are wrestling with is the dual use nature of any technology. Some easy examples a

Re: Vatlator 1.1. released

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew Lewman
to help others, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/LiveCDBestPractices. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproj

Re: Why does this happen?

2010-09-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
; your clock is not correct, Tor will not be able to function. Please > verify your computer displays the correct time. Either your clock or the directory server's clock is wrong. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog

Re: IP-tables and TOR

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
ushing traffic through tor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewm

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
As for your comment about "pain to switch", use two browsers. One for your Tor-based activities, and one for non-Tor activities. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Id

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
llance. I'll start a conversation with them. Thanks for bringing this up. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator ***

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
y I was asking "suspicious questions about ssl". -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator *

Re: Why does Gmail claim Tor IPs are located in one country when blutmagie.de claims they are located in a different country?

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
pears to be located in the UK according to blutmagie.de. whois and RIPE agree with blutmagie. Gmail is wrong. Perhaps they use different geoip databases. If you look at your circuits, are you exiting from the UK or do you have split circuits where some may be going to gstatic.com through another

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
focus on the vast majority of traffic that helps someone. However, we have bridges, exit policies, and lots of other technologies they could sponsor just as easily. This is a long answer to your questions and suggestions. However, I encourage the debate. Even more so, I enco

Re: $keyid of my server

2010-08-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
erprint is Or here, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Iwanttorunmorethanonerelay -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: tor

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
ands aren't under US Government rule. Internews Europe is different from Internews, and funded completely differently. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
009%20Financial%20%26%20Compliance%20Audit The best way we know to combat conspiracy theories and cranks is for the organization to be as transparent as possible. We hope you'll join us in protecting, providing, and strengthening anonymity online. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project p

Re: Vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.x & Firefox 4 Silent Updates

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
d the Firefox 3.5.x codebase. 3.6 is next, or maybe we just skip and go to 4.x. There is exactly one person working on this, so if people want faster updates to torbutton, more help is needed. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproje

Re: An asking concirning the TB

2010-08-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
wsers have that value. > Why? What could mean the above value of that characterisrics? Maybe Seth or Peter can answer this question based on the code logic in panopticlick. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https:/

Re: Tor notice

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
ogy.shtml -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torpr

Re: Could somebody comment that information?

2010-08-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
planation is this detainment and interrogation are due to Jacob's volunteering with Wikileaks. As far as we know today, the US government still believes in anonymity. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.tor

Re: Problem with the TB automatically usage of an alternative search engine

2010-07-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
was any problem in sending them potentially millions of queries per day. They never responded. Now that we have their attention, maybe they will. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.o

Re: app for each app's tor control?

2010-07-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
t; Looks like you're trying to use tsocks on os x? It doesn't (easily) > work on os x, even for non-gui apps. Whatever is in macports works fine for me. I use it daily. > There's a program from Dug Song named dsocks that does, I hear. I could never get this working on

Re: tor-proxy.net is official proxy site of TOR?

2010-07-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:51 +0530 emigrant wrote: > or is it safe enough? No. torproxy.net and tor-proxy.net, while two different sites, are wholly unrelated to The Tor Project. The torproxy.net domain may not even be using Tor as far as I can tell. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project

Re: app for each app's tor control?

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
can program a little. is there some list member who can > help to outline the basic idea? It sounds like you want a gui for tsocks. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: t

Re: mac and tor with little snitch

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
ion, I think. If you use tor, little snitch/ipfw won't see the traffic as it's being tunnelled through Tor. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject sk

Re: New Tor Relay: Help!!!!!

2010-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
ut nxdomain redirects at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP_redirect_page. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject skype: lewmanator ***

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

2010-06-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
, just check that a response was received. The response is probably then catalogued for some future court case. And to your scary realization, yes, baseless accusations have concrete affects in the real world. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blo

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
ionRouter/TorFAQ#WhydoesGoogleshowupinforeignlanguages -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject skype: lewmanator *** To unsubscr

Technology Preview: Windows client as a bridge by default

2010-06-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
oes it work for you?" test package. So far, it's worked on the 4 different networks I've tried. Apologies to the 300 Chinese users who used my bridge on one of the test networks, only to have it go away a day later. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://w

Re: Tor Browser Bundle question

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
/svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt And the pen drive will have whatever history, bookmarks, and cookies you told firefox to save. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Id

Re: No fingerprint in "Notice" level log on Windows

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:04:17 -0400 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: > Is anyone else as anal as me about noticing things like this? Sounds like a fine bug to report. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.o

Re: Bridges and China (new thread)

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
ions of http/https proxies out there. Try http://proxy.org/ as a starting point. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject **

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
open and active area of research as to the degree of anonymity (increase or decrease) one receives as you develop trusted paths through the network (pick your own path), or Autonomous System aware paths, or country level aware paths, etc. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Web

Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
ssue. See https://trac.vidalia- project.net/changeset/4284 for the details. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To u

Re: How to install and start Tor on FreeBSD?

2010-05-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 05/01/2010 10:39 AM, James Brown wrote: > Very thanks, I installed it by port. > I yet resolve my problem by discribed you method, thanks again. > Now there is yet one exit-node in the World :-) Awesome. Thanks for running an exit node. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0

Re: How to install and start Tor on FreeBSD?

2010-05-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
for my home system, only as a Tor server > for public needs for protecting and sponsoring the Tor project? First off, how did you install tor? by port or by source? You probably want to look in /usr/local/etc and set tor_enabled=YES in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf, not /etc/rc.conf. Your torrc should als

Re: Tor-exit without any exit rejection policies

2010-04-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org wi

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
pendns with a misconfigured account" statement. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to m

Re: Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
ppened again? > > I have had 5 of these warnings now in 12 hrs today. To me that seems > kind of excessive, but maybe its just me. The issue is generally a libevent problem, not specific to any one OS that I can see. I've worked around it by setting up a caching nameserver on localhost.

Re: Firefox configurations for tor with Mac ppc

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
ure out which prefs.js settings need to be changed. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send

Re: [solved] Full bandwidth is not used.

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
w things to rebalance and better utilize the relays we have. See the fine thread on tor-relays for the more detailed discussion, http://archives.seul.org/tor/relays/Apr-2010/msg00043.html -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.tor

Re: Consider traffic before setting AccountingStart in the middle of an accounting period.

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
ct. If tor wasn't previously told to account for bytes sent and received, it won't do so. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject **

Re: How does TOR deal with mac addresses

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:20:40 +0530, emigrant wrote: :During ARPs the mac address would get recorded isn't it? :So how does TOR protect anonymity with regard to mac addresses? Tor works at the tcp layer, not the layers below it. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website:

Re: filling a network with Tor traffic

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
affic flow. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-

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

2010-03-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
as a relay" if the tor client finds itself reachable by the outside world. Getting these options correct without screwing users is difficult. However, we are making progress. In the meanwhile, we need more relays, in particular exit relays, to help speed up Tor for everyone. -- Andrew Le

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
. Pending research involves which set of bridges were blocked; website, email, twitter/qq account, or all of them. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject

Re: Tor documentation

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
people watch the commits on or-cvs, or in the actual repositories, that they can build their own tor from source without issue. I'll give zzzjethro666 credit for trying to validate what was posted on the Internet. It's better than blindly believing it as fact. -- Andrew Lewman T

Re: Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 5%

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/28/2010 10:58 AM, Tiana Frings wrote: > THNX! I've discovered what "bridges" are and included several bridges > already. However, the problem is still the same? Do you have a local firewall or anti-virus that is blocking localhost? -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pg

Re: Tor v0.2.1.23 dose not work in my windowsXP box and Tor v0.2.1.24 can not work in my Debain

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
Publishing lists of bridges is bad, but not the end of the world. I mean, we give them out over unencrypted email and microblogging sites. Effectively, we're publishing them to the world. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/

Re: Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 5%

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
t; Edit in Mac? and load, how? What are you trying to do that cannot be accomplished in Vidalia? -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *

Re: Multiple warnings from Torbutton

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
I have Firefox 3.5 on an Ubuntu Karmic VM. Is there something I > can do to bypass this warning? It's a known bug, https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=1219. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: http

Re: Tor v0.2.1.23 dose not work in my windowsXP box and Tor v0.2.1.24 can not work in my Debain

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
SL handshaking is blocked (A packet for SSL client Hello is sent to > 74.207.232.33, but the bridge never gives me reponse): This could also mean the bridge is offline. If you can "openssl s_client -connect IP:port", does this work? Is ssl to say, gmail, or taobao also messed up? -- And

Re: Exclude... options and what about Tor v multi-hop proxies?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
can understand the security and anonymity properties that are different. If someone wants to figure out how to objectively evaluate all possible solutions and compare and contrast, great. We as the Tor Project, aren't going to do it. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website

Re: Could not open C:/msys/1.0/local/share\tor\fallback-consensus

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
le or > directory How did you install tor? -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord..

Re: Exclude... options and what about Tor v multi-hop proxies?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
lt on top of Tor at all. They may ship the tor source code to claim some relevance to Tor, but in fact, use ssh tunnels or https squid proxies rather than tor to transport your traffic. The FAQ you linked to on the wiki is world-writable. Feel free to update it with your own results. -- Andrew L

Re: Tor v0.2.1.23 dose not work in my windowsXP box and Tor v0.2.1.24 can not work in my Debain

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
but most bridges worked. They also seemed to mess with ssl in general, which also made tor, https, vpns, and ssh tunnels sad. And running at debug loglevel seems overkill when notice level logs tell you what's going on just fine. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https:/

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
r search engine for "get around blocked > internet", etc, which ends up using a webproxy. This is why the Tor Browser Bundle exists, http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/. It's self-contained and pre-configured. Just download, extract, and run. There's no configuration needed. --

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/20/2010 03:58 PM, Marco Bonetti wrote: > Andrew Lewman wrote: >> Chrisd even wrote Mozilla a patch and submitted it on the bug. > cool, do you apply the patch to windows tor bundles? if not, it could be > worth to be applied :) No, we don't build our own Firefox yet.

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
browsing mode. Chromium is relatively new, and we're working with the team to implement the APIs necessary to integration of a truly anonymous/private browsing mode. We'd also like to work with Mozilla on the same pathway, but so far we haven't made the right connections in the or

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
xy.org/, reconfigure Vidalia to not start a http proxy, and configure privoxy to point at tor as a socks server. Search engines should be able to find you many walkthrough in far greater detail than that. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog:

Re: launch external application warning

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
> to the otr website to explain what "authenticate" means, like a help >> file. >> > *** Yes, that is what I thought. Is there a way to tell the portable > Tor-enabled Firefox browser, "always use me and don't launch any other > browser"? I agree on

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
CKS layer fix. Chrisd even wrote Mozilla a patch and submitted it on the bug. The final point is that this is all free software. You are in control. If you don't like polipo, but do like privoxy, then don't install polipo and use privoxy. The power of choice is yours. -- Andrew Lew

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
timation. could anyone confirm this? The best person to answer this is Karsten, and he's currently traveling. We await his answer. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ I

Re: What version FF for Mac 10.5.2 ppc

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
otherwise, sure sounds good. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org w

Re: TOR Blocked at Universities

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
ut their issues, I'm happy to talk to them. I bet with a high probability that by blocking Tor exit nodes, the attacks didn't go away. Now they just originate from other IPs (zombie computers/botnets, open proxies, etc). Blocking tor clients outbound seems overkill to me. -- And

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
ally-blocked-china Yes. China is still blocking public Tor relays by IP address and tcp port combination. It seems the censorship apparatus is updated quarterly. Non-public relays, or bridges, seem to work fine. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torprojec

Re: Torbutton : please offer better user agent choices

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
gt; user agent is used and I'm not happy with it. Then uncheck the option and set your own user agent. There are other options to control your user agent, feel free to use those. If you want to partition yourself, by all means, do so. The reason we don't provide more user agents is to ma

Re: ExcludeNodes setting bypassed when using bridges! Has Tor become self aware?

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/02/2010 02:14 AM, twinkletoedtur...@safe-mail.net wrote: > Is this a bug? Yes, https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=1090. We're still working on it. In fact, we're working on rewriting the entire codebase around {Exclude}{Entry|Exit}Nodes opti

Re: Testing packages for OS X 10.5 and later with broken openssl

2010-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
//www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/vidalia-bundle-0.2.2.8-alpha-0.2.7-10.5-10.6-only-ppc.dmg and .asc are the normal vidalia-bundle configuration. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ I

Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

2010-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
ifiable exit relay ip address. It should be hard to tell if there is 1 tor user or 1 million from the other information gleaned about the browser. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.tor

Re: Testing packages for OS X 10.5 and later with broken openssl

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
://bugs.torproject.org. And thank you to everyone who has tested the packages this week. The feedback is great. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject

Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
outside the browser VM). Already working on that, https://www.torproject.org/torvm/ or pick a live cd with tor integrated into it. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca

Re: browser fingerprinting - panopticlick

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
sites are useless without javascript enabled. Torbutton protects against known attacks via javascript (yes there's something to be said about unknown attacks...). -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/

Re: Testing packages for OS X 10.5 and later with broken openssl

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 01/27/2010 12:25 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > Packages for testing are available at: > https://www.torproject.org/dist/testing/ The 10.5/10.6 powerpc packages are now available at the above url too. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog:

Testing packages for OS X 10.5 and later with broken openssl

2010-01-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
systems show it works for me. Update https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=1225 if it doesn't work or you have other issues with these testing packages. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torpr

Tor Browser Bundle 1.3.1 Released

2010-01-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
update Firefox to 3.5.7 update Pidgin to 2.6.5 update Tor to 0.2.1.22 -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Vidalia Bundle

2010-01-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
t; bundle down in the right spot. > Ok. The vidalia-bundles for Windows and osx i386 were updated on the 19th. The vidalia-bundle for osx ppc and the tor browser bundles were updated on the 22nd. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog: https://

Re: OSX bundle

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
avialable in a few hours. > It appears to only contain Vidalia and a Torbutton install. This is the new drag-and-drop installer. Everything is preconfigured and contained within /Applications/Vidalia.app. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.o

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