Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?
Steve Furlong wrote... The noisy protocol has the added benefit of causing the network cable to emit lots of radiation, frying the brains of TOR users. The only defense is a hat made of flexible metal. More than that, I'd bet they engineered that noise to stimulate the very parts of the brain responsible for Wikipedia entries... -TD
Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Steve Furlong wrote: On 10/4/05, gwen hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) ... BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that feature is built in. The NSA wants to be able to easily find anyone who's running it. The noisy protocol has the added benefit of causing the network cable to emit lots of radiation, frying the brains of TOR users. The only defense is a hat made of flexible metal. Don't do it! That acts as an antenna and only increases the damage! -- Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains nothing. - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark
Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?
Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) compile your own client and examine sources if you have this particular brand of paranoia(I do) change to an OS which makes this easy ... BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Troll Mode off: :) Tyler Durden wrote: Can anyone suggest a tool for checking to see if my Tor client is performing any surreptitious signaling? Seems to me there's a couple of possibilities for a TLA or someone else to monitor Tor users. Tor clients purchased online or whatever could possibly signal a monitoring agency for when and possibly where the user is online. This would mean that at bootup, some surreptitious packets could be fired off. The problem here is that a clever TLA might be able to hide its POP behind the Tor network, so merely checking on IP addresses on outgoing packets wouldn't work. Can anyone recommend a nice little package that can be used to check for unusual packets leaving my machine through the tor client? -TD
Re: Just to make your life more paranoid:) Re: Surreptitious Tor Messages?
On 10/4/05, gwen hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Troll Mode on: TOR was originally developed as a result of CIA/NRL funding:) .. BTW running TOR makes you very visible that you are running tor even as a client.. its quite a noisy protocol Well, of course that feature is built in. The NSA wants to be able to easily find anyone who's running it. The noisy protocol has the added benefit of causing the network cable to emit lots of radiation, frying the brains of TOR users. The only defense is a hat made of flexible metal. -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
