Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Timo Schoeler (timo.schoe...@riscworks.net): > I don't want to be a party-pooper, but installing just another big node > (like blutmagie) would still mean > > * relatively simple eavesdropping of exit traffic > > When speaking in terms of bandwidth, e.g. 150Mbps, then I'd rather > spre

Tor Problems on Korean Windows

2010-05-11 Thread Kees
I recently installed tor on the windows machine of a Korean friend and it did not want to work. After a lot of messing about we worked out the the problem was his Korean user name in the path to the torrc file. Once we moved the torrc file to c:\program files\vidalia\tor and told vidalia we had

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Al MailingList spake: >> Hi, >> >> I don't want to be a party-pooper, but installing just another big node >> (like blutmagie) would still mean >> >> * relatively (still very low) redundancy >> >> * strong agglomeration of traffic on only a few no

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread Al MailingList
> Hi, > > I don't want to be a party-pooper, but installing just another big node > (like blutmagie) would still mean > > * relatively (still very low) redundancy > > * strong agglomeration of traffic on only a few nodes > > (thus leading to) > > * relatively simple eavesdropping of exit traffic >

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus David Triendl spake: > Hi everyone, > >> Have you guys thought organizing a (very) public Kickstarter.com >> project for the purpose of raising the funds and creating awareness of >> need? > > Kickstarter has three disadvantages: > 1) It does not allow recurring fees, you'd have to start a n

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread David Triendl
Hi everyone, > Have you guys thought organizing a (very) public Kickstarter.com > project for the purpose of raising the funds and creating awareness of > need? Kickstarter has three disadvantages: 1) It does not allow recurring fees, you'd have to start a new project for every payment you want t

Re: help: "Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections"

2010-05-11 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lefcoe Yaacov wrote: > I recently installed Tor onto Firefox 3.5.9 on a PowerPC Mac Powerbook > running OSX 10.5.8. It worked fine for about 5 days and then starting > giving me the message on the subject line. I changed proxy settings from > "none" t

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread W
Have you guys thought organizing a (very) public Kickstarter.com project for the purpose of raising the funds and creating awareness of need? .w On May 10, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment, 25% of all traffic exits through Blutmagie (thanks > Olaf!). I guess we

Re: help: "Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections"

2010-05-11 Thread Jon
>On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Lefcoe Yaacov wrote >I recently installed Tor onto Firefox 3.5.9 on a PowerPC Mac Powerbook running >OSX 10.5.8. >It worked fine for about 5 days then starting giving > me the message on the subject line It might be easier to help you if we know what the mess

help: "Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections"

2010-05-11 Thread Lefcoe Yaacov
I've been poking around the Tor site and wiki looking for help, this forum seemed the closest to newbie-friendly i could find. I recently installed Tor onto Firefox 3.5.9 on a PowerPC Mac Powerbook running OSX 10.5.8. It worked fine for about 5 days and then starting giving me the message o