Re: (tor + linux).install()

2008-01-04 Thread tor user
--- Jon McLachlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bare-minimum linux box, much like a planetlab node that I'd like to use to deploy a Tor relay. In installing Tor, I am having trouble satisfying the dependencies for the latest stable tor linux source tarball (tor-0.1.2.18.tar.gz).

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Crook
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:23:38AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote: This is certainly not adviseable because of the lack of security built into windows and the possible backdoors. Anonymity systems like Tor are designed to be resistant to bad nodes, even when the operator of the node is a bad

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ringo Kamens wrote: This is certainly not adviseable because of the lack of security built into windows and the possible backdoors. I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the

Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread algenon flower
Hello Does anyone have good info about the feasability of running a Tor server on Vista OS? Is this advisable? Algenon - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Re: shinjiru closed exit node acceptnolimits

2008-01-04 Thread accept no limits
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Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:09:16PM +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the same problems: To http://openbsd.org/ is not a modern operation system? FreeBSDs? Even modern Linux distros,

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:09:16PM +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the same problems: To http://openbsd.org/

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Algenon, I agree with Steve. I recommend running tor server on Vista, so that You can report bugs to the developers. About security: Ringo thinks running Tor on Windows is a security risk because of backdoors. But every OS has bugs, including linux, unix, bsd, mac OS. And probably almost

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Ben Wilhelm
Alexander W. Janssen wrote: I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the same problems: To much installed services by default, weak administration and the general reluctance of users to pay attentions to security-updates