Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-11 Thread Scott Bennett
to apply to the assignment of "Authority" flags. Given the current directory protocol(s) and distribution structure, I'm fine with that arrangement for the time being for "Authority" flagging, but not for "BadExit" flagging for the reasons you posted, as wel

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Bennett
very likely combine encrypted and unencrypted versions >of ports together, removing this option entirely. > Here you threaten that the tor project would someday severely reduce the control that an exit operator would ha

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Bennett
>allows their old ports + 443 and continue sniffing. Exactly, on all points. > >I can not see the Tor project won _anything_ with this decision. > Well, they've made clear that they know what's good for exit operators better than those exit operators do. Perhaps

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-09 Thread Scott Bennett
s* to be undergoing a major philosophical change toward nannying the tor user community, a direction I find very unappealing, to say the least. Horrifying might be a more appropriate word. Sco

tor weather subscription problem

2011-01-31 Thread Scott Bennett
ease re-enable them, at least for this site, or for HTTPS connections, or for 'same-origin' requests. More information is available with DEBUG=True. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

[OT] Republicons resume attacks on privacy

2011-01-26 Thread Scott Bennett
The Republicants are back to pushing data retention legislation. :-( http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html#ixzz1C6p2U2fR Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 04:28:17 + (UTC) John Case wrote: >On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> >> Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > > >What do those two acronyms (ASMELG, CFIAG) mean ? They're a summary of my

Re: New Bundle Version 1.3.10

2010-11-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:33:23 -0500 Joe Btfsplk wrote: >On 11/2/2010 3:01 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:22:07 + Erinn Clark >> wrote: >>> NoScript >>> - majority of options are disabled >> Erinn, I'm not s

Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:17:20 + "Geoff Down" wrote: >On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:05 -0600, "Jon" wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> > I wrote: >> >>http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/05/us-censors-muslim-w

Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-06 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:03:24 -0500 David Carlson wrote: >On 11/6/2010 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I wrote: >>> http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/05/us-censors-muslim-websites-list-of-= >british-mps-who-supported-iraq-war/ >>> >>> Usi

Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-06 Thread Scott Bennett
ent >that the reason is due to DNS hijacking that is probably related to U.S. >censorship. I changed my mind. I'm adding {ca},{uk},{us} to my ExcludeExitNodes list with an appropriate comment for later removal in case the U.S. ever calls off its War on the Internet. :-(

U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

2010-11-06 Thread Scott Bennett
o DNS hijacking that is probably related to U.S. censorship. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennet

Re: New Bundle Version 1.3.10

2010-11-02 Thread Scott Bennett
ller analysis available. > Okay. You might want to look through all the stuff on the NoScript web pages to get a better understanding of the extensive list of pretty awful leakages and attacks that NoScript can block. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, C

Re: Excessive scrubs

2010-10-24 Thread Scott Bennett
it the postal address lines anyway as below. Although I didn't respond directly to Jon's reply, I'd like to thank him for his update and its reassurance. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: Excessive scrubs

2010-10-19 Thread Scott Bennett
s a security violation that is only intended for debugging a problem, not for normal use. Read the documentation about it. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet:

FBI trying to get backdoors legislated again

2010-10-10 Thread Scott Bennett
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/fbi-backdoor-access-mail-texts/story?id=11825039 (Beware of linewrap in the URL.) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-10-06 Thread Scott Bennett
s above would be helpful, though, in making those modifications. However, I don't understand the need for compatibility for tor controllers on this one. It seems to me that changes to the ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists are the kind of thing that should require rereading torrc, thr

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:40:02 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: >On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:27:01AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >Yup, that's the actual behaviour. Good thing we added the warn, >> >otherwise >> >it might have gone unnoticed longer. >&g

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:05:09 +0200 Sebastian Hahn wrote: >On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine >> wrote: >>> As I understand it, we changed no behavior except printing out a warn >>&g

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: >On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:36:18AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I had planned to upgrade my node from 0.2.2.14-alpha this evening to >> 0.2.2.15-alpha, but there is an unfortunate and apparently gratuitous, new

gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Scott Bennett
iple ExcludeExitNodes and ExcludeNodes lines again. Thank you. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-20 Thread Scott Bennett
ere >> there are/have been genuine attempts to provide full anonymity, no get >> out clause. > >Nice story, bro. > Relax, Jake. He/she did write "attempts", which, of course, neither equates to nor impli

Re: control time spent with a circuit

2010-06-29 Thread Scott Bennett
again and with greater care. There is, AFAIK, only one parameter that does what you asked for, and that one is MaxCircuitDirtiness. That is also clear from the man page. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-22 Thread Scott Bennett
o use both NoScript and Torbutton together. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *---

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:18:36 -0700 Seth David Schoen wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >> While HTTPS-Everywhere may be a nice programming exercise for its >> author(s), it appears wholly unnecessary for Firefox users because Firefox >> users should *ALREADY*

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-22 Thread Scott Bennett
pt, then sooner or later you and/or the OP will get burned and will thus be taught the hard way the lesson you should have understood by now. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.e

Re: SSL only firefox add-on?

2010-06-17 Thread Scott Bennett
raffic by default? > >Then maybe like how Adblock plus is - "Disable on this page only" >allows http traffic only for that page? AFAIK, NoScript doesn't discriminate among individual pages, only by host+domainname. It does allow the use of wildcards in the

Re: Hidden Services Hosting and DMCA

2010-06-12 Thread Scott Bennett
ll need to maintain (ie. >update) it. > What a strange thing to say! How can you credibly claim to know the availability requirements for other persons' hidden services? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: DerAufbruch{,1,2} nodes not in a Family

2010-05-31 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:42:09 + Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> There are three nodes currently listed in the directory by the names of >> DerAufbruch, DerAufbruch1, and DerAufbruch2 without contact information that >> are not configured into a

Re: DerAufbruch{,1,2} nodes not in a Family

2010-05-30 Thread Scott Bennett
he "bad exits" issue, so maybe the directory authorities ought to have a way of enforcing Family groupings in a manner similar to the BadExit flag or the Invalid flag. Any thoughts on this from others, including developers?

DerAufbruch{,1,2} nodes not in a Family

2010-05-30 Thread Scott Bennett
,$72EABEEEA8290EE39A44A3E06676071B98D17EBD (Beware of linewrap in the NodeFamily line above.) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

2010-05-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:55:19 -0700 Seth David Schoen wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >> What seems to be missing from this discussion is the fact that NoScript >> already supports forcing HTTPS on a site-by-site or pattern basis. You >> should be using NoS

Re: HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

2010-05-28 Thread Scott Bennett
be missing from this discussion is the fact that NoScript already supports forcing HTTPS on a site-by-site or pattern basis. You should be using NoScript already if you use Firefox, so just tell it what to do.

Re: gwget and tor?

2010-05-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:49:26 -0600 Jim wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:40:29 -0400 "Aplin, Justin M" >> wrote: >>> I don't know about gwget, but plain wget supports http proxies, which >>> you can point at Polip

Re: gwget and tor?

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Bennett
a lot you can add the following lines to your .wgetrc file >to have them executed automatically: > >proxy = on >HTTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 >HTTPS_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 >FTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 See note above. > >

Re: Tor Exit Node hosting: torservers.net

2010-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
Mike and Moritz, Would you both *please* stop posting each message to multiple lists? Thanks much. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:33:23 -0400 Ted Smith wrote: >On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:45 -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I don't know who "Censorship Research Center" might be, but they claim >> to have a development project going for another encrypted proxy service. &

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 25 May 2010 05:55:34 -0400 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: >On 5/25/2010 4:59 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> You may well be assuming too much. It's not easy to know at this >> point because it's still undocumented vaporware. I still think the >&g

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 25 May 2010 03:30:34 -0400 Justin Aplin wrote: >On May 25, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I don't know who "Censorship Research Center" might be, but they >> claim >> to have a development project going for another encrypted p

[OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Bennett
ns tor, complaining about tor's publicly available directory and arguing that their method is better, while not mentioning bridges. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Interne

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

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
Hi Paul, On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:12:38 -0400 Paul Syverson wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:44:36PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious! I go to sleep for a few hours, and the >> discussion descends into total confusion because a number

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
me) by running no node at all. > Exactly. Thank you, Moritz. Roger just didn't read what Bruce wrote. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.e

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

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
't use more than one of us in a circuit." It does not allow any node to specify other nodes. A node simply specifies the name of a Family to which it belongs. Jeesh. It's really not very difficult, and no, it is not v

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 20 May 2010 07:37:17 + The23rd Raccoon wrote: >On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> =A0 =A0 On Thu, 20 May 2010 00:40:42 -0400 =3D?utf-8?Q?Jerzy_=3DC5=3D81og= >iewa?=3D >> wrote: >>>I apologize for altering the nature of this

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
stop me from listing nodes that I don't control in a MyFamily statement now? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *---

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
a difficult time following the threads. > If you subscribed to this list after the start of the thread, just go to the list archives, and look for my original message. It should all then become clear. Scott Bennett, Comm

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
to my node's torrc that included all four blutmagie nodes? > >We need to have each set of relays in a family declare the others, >or it's open to attacks like this. > All that would do would be to say to all clients, "Don't include this node in

Re: Answer by perfect-privacy.com Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Bennett
with, apparently, the addition of 17 more node fingerprints that I missed when I grepped the directory for the email address from the contact info. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-16 Thread Scott Bennett
escription in the tor man page. Then look at what I posted before about the perfect-privacy.com nodes being misconfigured w.r.t. Family designations. Their operator(s) did it wrong and have not responded to email sent to the address in those nodes' contact information.

NodeFamily statement to fix the perfect-privacy.com problem

2010-05-16 Thread Scott Bennett
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulate

Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-15 Thread Scott Bennett
someone else would require grouping them with perfect-privacy.com's nodes. Thanks in advance for any answers to these questions! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc.

2010-05-14 Thread Scott Bennett
ave not thoroughly combed the directory for similar cases. It is entirely possible that others exist, but for now, it would be good to eliminate the violators ASAP. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: why is the traffic not more linear?

2010-05-14 Thread Scott Bennett
hat sort of variability he see anyway. Does he mean that it is erratic on a minute-to-minute basis? Or at various times of day? The graphs at the link he gave appeared damaged in Firefox, appearing as straight, horizontal lines (yes, plural) in and below the graph boundaries.

Re: opening up (exit policy) a bit ...

2010-05-08 Thread Scott Bennett
(O), but if you don't have pf(4) support on your system (OpenBSD and FreeBSD only, I think), then you don't have pftop available. I don't know what similar tools may be available for use with other syste

Re: Using tor as proxy for the command line

2010-05-06 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 06 May 2010 15:56:25 +0200 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Thu, 06 May 2010 11:05:17 +0200 Jacob Appelbaum m.net> >> wrote: >>> Scott Bennett wrote: >>>> On Wed, 5 May 2010 20:22:55 +0200 Borja Luaces il=3D >>

Re: Using tor as proxy for the command line

2010-05-06 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 06 May 2010 11:05:17 +0200 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 5 May 2010 20:22:55 +0200 Borja Luaces =2Ecom> >> wrote: >>> I would like to know if it is possible to use tor as proxy for the com= >mand >>> line under li

Re: Using tor as proxy for the command line

2010-05-05 Thread Scott Bennett
line >(wget, nmap,...) > Note that wget(1) abides by the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables described in fetch(3). I suspect that torify(1) used with nmap will not be particularly useful to you nor would you endear yourself to exit operators by doing that.

circuit construction timeout values

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Bennett
series of circuit construction time, where the smoother is 5000 values wide, how can such jumps occur? I guess I don't understand what algorithm is being used here. Any clarification would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm

Re: Botnet attack? [was: Re: Declining traffic]

2010-04-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:24 +0200 Hans Schnehl wrote: >On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:35:20AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:36:17 -0400 Flamsmark >> wrote: >> >On 26 April 2010 09:59, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> > >> >> (De

Re: Botnet attack? [was: Re: Declining traffic]

2010-04-26 Thread Scott Bennett
>addresses on public mailing lists. > That is a good idea for client IP addresses, to be sure. However, any relay already has its IP address made public in the consensus and the directory. And I have no qualms at all about m

Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:45:38 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: >On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:51:32PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I hope that, in the future, openssl.org will make some effort to >> coordinate such things with the various operating system developers in >&

Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Bennett
one so affected. >But we haven't yet put out a stable release that includes that patch. > >So if you upgraded to the latest 0.2.2.x-alpha to get the fixes for other >bugs, you would get the fix for this bug too. Let us know if it works. > Are there any ideas

Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Bennett
us problems over that:-), so this system would not have registered itself at either of the sites mentioned in the latter article. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-23 Thread Scott Bennett
manner, were only systems running tor relays attacked, who shut it off, etc. If anyone else on this list noticed anything between 5:00 a.m. CDT and 8:00 a.m. CDT, please post the details here. Thanks!

Re: Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha and 0.2.2.12-alpha are out

2010-04-22 Thread Scott Bennett
ur directory fetch circuit timeout patch, at least as a temporary fix that might be replaced by something better in 0.2.2.13-alpha? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett a

Re:Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Bennett
It's certainly worth further investigation. A phone call to the ISP >to find out what its policies and practices are about daily reboots and >so on might be well worth your time. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Int

Re:Eventdns: All name servers have failed

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Bennett
ctices are about daily reboots and so on might be well worth your time. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:29:04 -0700 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >Roger Dingledine wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:59:31PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> My weather satellite images got blocked again, due to the Privacy= >Now >>> exit using OpenDNS with a

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:21:33 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: >On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:59:31PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> My weather satellite images got blocked again, due to the PrivacyNow >> exit using OpenDNS with a misconfigured account and the fact that >

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-18 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:54:31 -0500 Bill Weiss wrote: >Scott Bennett(benn...@cs.niu.edu)@Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 03:18:47AM -0500: >> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:54:16 -0400 Andrew Lewman >> wrote: >> >I may be misunderstanding the "using opendns with a misconf

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-18 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:54:16 -0400 Andrew Lewman wrote: >On 04/16/2010 12:59 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> My weather satellite images got blocked again, due to the PrivacyNow >> exit using OpenDNS with a misconfigured account and the fact that >> ExcludeExitNod

Re: TOR Not Starting after upgrade

2010-04-16 Thread Scott Bennett
digest of each program that is allowed to have network access, and when an already approved program tries to use the network, its checksum or digest is calculated afresh and compared with the one already on record. If it has changed, then the

Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:42:26 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> Olaf, if you're awake and on-line at/near this hour:-), how about >> an update, now that blutmagie has been running long enough to complete >> its climb to FL510 and acceler

BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
consensus? Thanks! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * **

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:04:06 -0400 zzzjethro...@email2me.net top-posted (again, please stop doing that): > Scott Bennett wrote: > > > "That is why tor is distributed with a complete set of documentation." > >Okay, great. I will read it but all I have in my Ho

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:17:39 +0200 Sebastian Hahn wrote: >On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:25:07 +0200 Sebastian Hahn >> > > >> wrote: >>> On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >>>&

Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:23:35 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >>> >>> It appears memory consumption with the wrapped Linux malloc() is still >>> larger than than with openbsd-malloc I used before. Hugepages don't >>> appear to w

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:25:07 +0200 Sebastian Hahn wrote: >On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> Unfortunate (IMO), the latest versions have the support for .exit >> either disabled or deleted, apparently leaving us no easy way to >> perform >&

Re: PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
yourself, are the maintainer of your own client's ExcludeExitNodes and ExcludeNodes lists in your torrc file. Meanwhile, I see that PrivacyNow still has the following flags assigned to it in the consensus document: s Exit Fast HSDir Named Running Stable V2Dir Valid I ask again that t

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
Hi Arjan, On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:03:33 +0200 Arjan >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:10:37 +0200 Arjan >> wrote: >>> Scott Bennett wrote: >>>> BTW, I know that there are *lots* of tor relays running on LINUX >>>> sys

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:10:37 +0200 Arjan wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> BTW, I know that there are *lots* of tor relays running on LINUX >> systems whose operators are subscribed to this list. Don't leave Olaf and >> me here swinging in the breeze. Plea

Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:23:35 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >>> >>> It appears memory consumption with the wrapped Linux malloc() is still >>> larger than than with openbsd-malloc I used before. Hugepages don't >>> appear to w

Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:00:52 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Christian Kujau wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 at 05:58, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> and straighten us out. Remember that Olaf runs the highest-load-bearing >>> tor node in our whole network, and there are

PrivacyNow is a BadExit (was Re: PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account)

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
authorities know how to reach the operator of PrivacyNow to get his/her OpenDNS configuration fixed (or switched to Google's open name servers or something similar), will the authorities please flag PrivacyNow as a BadExit ASAP

Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Christian Kujau wrote: >On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 at 05:58, Scott Bennett wrote: >> and straighten us out. Remember that Olaf runs the highest-load-bearing >> tor node in our whole network, and there are at least two or four dozen >>

messages indicate strange choice by tor

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
etter"? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disc

PrivacyNow node has misconfigured OpenDNS account

2010-04-14 Thread Scott Bennett
eExitNodes list. :-( Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * &q

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:10:37 +0200 Arjan wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> BTW, I know that there are *lots* of tor relays running on LINUX >> systems whose operators are subscribed to this list. Don't leave Olaf and >> me here swinging in the breeze. Plea

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:15:18 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> Now that you've had tor running for a while, what does a >> "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i hugepage" show you? Also, 126 such pages >> equal 256 MB of memory. Is tha

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:16:33 -0500 (CDT) I wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:36 +0200 Olaf Selke >wrote: >>Scott Bennett wrote: >> >>> Either I forgot (probable) or you didn't mention before (less probable) >>> that you had moved it to a n

Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:36 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> Either I forgot (probable) or you didn't mention before (less probable) >> that you had moved it to a newer machine. Whatever you're running it on, >> superpages or LINUX

Re: Need a full description of 'Use New Identity'

2010-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
you. It tells your client, basically, to "mark all existing circuits as being too old to use for new streams" and to "build three new circuits proactively". Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:43:21 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett schrieb: >> In any case, your Xeon(s) ought to be able to benefit considerably from >> running your gargantuan tor process in 4 MB pages instead of 4 KB pages. > >the old blutmagie exit running in 2

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:05:06 -0600 Kasimir Gabert wrote: >On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> =A0 =A0 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:23:16 +0200 Olaf Selke ie.de> >> wrote: > [snipped] >>> >>>maybe I take your advice and add php code at bl

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:23:16 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett schrieb: >> >> I see I missed the implication in Olaf's main complaint above, which >> is that the authorities are advertising more capacity for his node than >> his node is advertising

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:12:43 -0500 (CDT) I wrote: >Hi Olaf, > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:11:36 +0200 Olaf Selke >wrote: >>Scott Bennett schrieb: >> >>> Observed by what? If it has anything to do with the numbers >>> given in the consensus doc

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Bennett
Hi Olaf, On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:11:36 +0200 Olaf Selke wrote: >Scott Bennett schrieb: > >> Observed by what? If it has anything to do with the numbers >> given in the consensus documents, then the only value such graphs >> would have would be for the purpose o

Re: [or-talk] where are the exit nodes gone?

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Bennett
ing those graphs with the values reported by the relays themselves. The values in the consensus documents alone are, a priori, worthless. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

Re: vps

2010-04-07 Thread Scott Bennett
on of all ports as an exit policy. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well

Re: Cannot Download Bridges

2010-04-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:29:57 +0200 Mitar wrote: >On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >> It wouldn't be airtight, to be sure, but it would >> greatly shrink the window of opportunity for censors to cut bridge users >> off from the tor network. >

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