Re: Tor raid [was: "cease and desist" from my vps provider...]

2011-02-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
accept yearly cash in advance, as Hetzner.co.za does. > defense in depth++ -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD

Re: "cease and desist" from my vps provider...

2011-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
he criminal investigator is clueful, or actually Tor-hostile. > > I already had a raid due to my Exit Node... so, I'm not worried :) Good luck, here's your cojones de latón award, and I hope you'll get your hardware back soon!

Re: "cease and desist" from my vps provider...

2011-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
then, and for the better. Wait until you got hit by DDoS or a couple, and then see whether Hetzner is still cooperative. Another major, personal nuisance is if you're in the wrong Bundesland, or whether the criminal investigator i

Re: "cease and desist" from my vps provider...

2011-02-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
o himself, repeatedly), so they're effectively accepting of a Tor middleman, but Tor exits are probably going to be pretty short-lived in Hetzner space. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

Re: JanusVM: try again

2011-01-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
learn before you can effectively stay anonymous. > > And for the last time, LEARN BASIC LINUX NETWORKING *BEFORE* you ask > > anything else. > > > > -- > Economics is not practised as a science. Rather, it is a pretentious way to > covertly promote political prejudi

Re: Tor in German media (27c3)

2011-01-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
hat is good to know. Unfortunately, finding an exit-sympathetic hoster will be more of a problem. Hetzner e.g. seems to tolerate middlemen but not exits, as they're abuse-driven. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

27C3 on Tor

2010-12-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
(via arsetechnica) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/flaws-in-tor-anonymity-network-spotlighted.ars Flaws in Tor anonymity network spotlighted By John Borland, wired.com | Last updated about 4 hours ago At the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin, Germany on Monday, researchers

Home Internet with Anonymity Built In

2010-12-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=26981 Home Internet with Anonymity Built In A router that runs the Tor software prevents Web tracking. By Tom Simonite Many political activists, nonprofits, and businesses use an anonymity system called Tor to encrypt and obscure

Re: leaker-optimized versions of Tor

2010-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
s like random delay distribution, amount of chaff injected, and number of hops. This is definitely a nontrivial problem, and I'm definitely not the person to answer this. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

Re: leaker-optimized versions of Tor

2010-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:15:24PM +0100, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > It should default to a much larger number of hops, > > Why? Is this really necessary? Tor as is wasn't designed to resist TLA-level adversa

Re: leaker-optimized versions of Tor

2010-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
r, so why not go with it? Publishing via SMTP is a good idea, actually. Access is not critical, publishing is. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postb

leaker-optimized versions of Tor

2010-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
hould come with a hidden service to Tahoe-LAFS or similar. A version should come as a convenient and containable virtual appliance, or packaged as plug computers. Comments, other suggestions? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl htt

Re: Relay flooding, confirmation, HS's, default relay, web of trust

2010-12-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
> list, though... I think it is an excellent idea (I've suggested that much in the past IIRC). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiot

Liberté Linux

2010-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://dee.su/liberte Summary Liberté Linux is a secure, reliable, lightweight, and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB Linux distribution intended as a communication aid in hostile environments. Liberté installs as a regular directory on a USB/SD key, and after a single-click setup, boots on any d

Re: Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
hem just by processing traffic? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779

Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation

2010-11-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2010/11/bitcoin-gains-legal-protection-through.html SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010 Bitcoin And The Electronic Frontier Foundation There are many legal implications when utilizing Bitcoin. Users of Bitcoin who conduct business with the wrong people could face charges

distributed traffic patterns (for personal traffic)

2010-11-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
mediate ISPs (and even a conglomeration of several of them) can't see it. And it looks like this is a fairly cheap thing to put together in 2010... - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org

Re: Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r1 out

2010-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 02:44:59PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Eugen Leitl (eu...@leitl.org): > > > https://www.privacy-cd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=89 > > https://www.privacy-cd.org/en/no-network > > I suppose that

Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r1 out

2010-10-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://www.privacy-cd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=89 -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
m/search?aq=f&q=break+out+of+VM > pgp-id: 0x5D41FDF8 > Proof me wrong. Lack of professional paranoia detected. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.

Re: The best way to run a hidden service: one or two computers?

2010-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:16:12PM -0700, coderman wrote: > Chrome only has a prayer as live browser instance (which it does well > by the way!). This means you discourage use of Chrome for Tor-related issues, did I get that correct? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl ht

DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave

2010-08-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/duckduckgo-now-operates-a-tor-exit-enclave.html DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave By Gabriel Weinberg on August 13, 2010 9:30 AM Tor enables Internet anonymity by routing your traffic through a series of encrypted relays. DuckDuckGo now

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

2010-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 07:52:56PM +0530, emigrant wrote: > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > languages i cannot read. > is there any way to keep it always to english? > > thank you very much. Make http://google.com/ncr your home page. -- Eu

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
Roland Dobbins // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://le

Re: filling a network with Tor traffic

2010-03-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:39:26PM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:38:25 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > :Any suggestions for making Tor filling up 2-3 /24 networks, > :so that it doesn't break anything for the users? > > > Do you mean traffic from

filling a network with Tor traffic

2010-03-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
k anything for the users? Unfortunately, at this time I can't throw more than a couple TByte traffic on this. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http:/

Re: [Kraut] inquiries from law enforcement authorities

2010-02-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
customer data. Otherwise without own address space > an isp would point with their finger on me being the bad guy. This > certainly would lead to police knocking on my door. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin 0.2 released

2009-12-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
list bitcoin-l...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.at

Re: [OFF LIST] Re: attempt from Taiwan to connect to my privoxy port

2009-12-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
and determine if > it's weaponized or innocent, but it's quite the dichotomy that's being Easy, just check whether the evil header bit is set. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514 > created. Interestingly, most of these people don't think tor is > weaponized. For what

torsocks on pogo

2009-11-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone using http://openpogo.com/repo/torsocks_1.0-gamma-1_arm.ipk on your Pogoplug? Experiences? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet.

2009-11-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
mobile nodes, whether on foot, car, balloon, plane or birds in LEO. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014

Re: Anyone running Tor on routing/switching hardware ?

2009-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
teers free of charge who must promise to run Tor nodes (or at least middle-men) for a couple years. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: Anyone running Tor on routing/switching hardware ?

2009-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
ages come from a trusted source. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75

Orbot: An Anonymous Proxy for Android using Tor

2009-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://openideals.com/2009/10/22/orbot-proxy/ Orbot: An Anonymous Proxy for Android using Tor Posted in Announcing..., Emerging Tech, Guardian, Mobile Mobile - Comments - October 22, 2009 Tags: android, guardianphone, proxies, tor I’d like to make this post without much fanfare. Just looking t

Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet.

2009-10-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
ground organisation)? Spoken as a Pirate Party member, that's pure slander. Among its many goals, Pirate Party does not want to abolish copyright altogether. However, it definitely wants to change the current status quo, which is unacceptable, and hurts both the artists/content producers and

FYI: WNR3500L

2009-10-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
Netgear just launched a reasonably powerful 802.11n router with open firmware: http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/RangeMaxWirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR3500L.aspx At 99 EUR, it looks like a good host for these MIPS tor packages. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>le

Re: Your system clock just jumped 130 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no longer work.

2009-10-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
cky. Apparently, my firewall (pfSense 1.2) was wedged in a funny state, now after reboot no more funny message. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postb

Re: Your system clock just jumped 130 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no longer work.

2009-10-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:46:47PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > Clock failures are truly rare events. Internet connection transmission > holdups are not. I suspect my dear provider (Kabel Deutschland) has started throttling my connection. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";

Your system clock just jumped 130 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no longer work.

2009-10-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
this problem, but nothing conclusive. What is going on here? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 7

Re: minimal traffic footprint Tor on the road

2009-09-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
s require manual intervention, making compromise slower, and easier to detect. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD

Re: minimal traffic footprint Tor on the road

2009-09-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
nyone knows how badly Atom N270 virtualizes? I should probably take that to a different list. If I don't configure a relay, I will be low-traffic, correct? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 4

minimal traffic footprint Tor on the road

2009-09-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've gotten used to connecting to my middleman node on the home LAN so that I don't even know what's the current proper way to run a tor/browser bundle or a browsing appliance on Ubuntu on a netbook (Atom N270) on the road. Which packages to you people use for that? Why? -

Re: "I Write Mass Surveillance Software"

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
h welcome any documentation. We should publish everthing in the open to make it easily replicable by anybody anywhere, so just to make the annoyance mutual. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100,

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
A good first way to start would be to dump http://www.reddit.com/user/Grobbage into a wiki, and annotate the heck out of it. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Ted Smith - From: Ted Smith Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:11:12 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl Cc: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-61.el4) On Thu, 2009-09-17

Tor for Android

2009-09-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/android/tor/ TorProxy and Shadow Summer placement project, written by Connell Gauld. TorProxy is an Android application that makes it possible to use Internet sites and services anonymously from a mobile device. This is possible thanks to the Tor network a

Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/ Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node By calumog I became interested in Tor in the spring of 2007 after reading about the situation in Burma and felt that I would like to do somethin

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:47:25PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:37:25AM -0400, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > If you use a mailserver outside the USA and you are IN the USA then you can > > be absolutely certain that all your comms will be reco

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
nd StartTLS. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:20:58PM -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > > Don't use Gmail. > > > Instead, use... Are we having one of these lack of imagination moments? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: Gmail

2009-09-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
rovocation. As will any other vendor. Caveat emptor. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: Tor a carrier for Botnet traffic?

2009-09-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
to smoke what you've been smoking. If you want to do something against bot nets (operators of which don't give a damn about Tor, since they can form their own communication networks -- afaik they haven't even bothered building private Tor networks) then you try contacting somebody

Re: Javascript security question

2009-08-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
rewall. > you. (But you need obligatly disable the java in your browser because > the java-applications can steal you external ip-address. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 h

Re: Javascript security question

2009-08-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
ript for these sites can be OK? Who knows? Have you considered the ads, or that you might get a custom version when detected you're coming from a Tor exit? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org ___

Re: Supercookies

2009-08-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
ility) and how it handles flash > cookies. I think if you use flash with Tor you should be using a hardened virtual appliance. Preferrably, reverting to a clean snapshot thereof when you're done. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: Numbers of police-raids ?

2009-08-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
ar with your police office, the police database contains enough > entries about you and you can solve your trouble by a short phone call. ;-) In the north, maybe. I'm not sure this works that way in Bavaria. > At the moment, a police-search is not the main way used by authorities.

Re: windows tor

2009-08-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
ot spent making it easier for clients to use. There's a feeling > > that it's currently 'good enough' that those who really need to use Tor will > > be able to follow the instructions and get it working. If you don't agree > > with that emphasis, again

Re: Whats your approx. Tor- Bandwidth in german Telekom-Anschlüssen ?

2009-07-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
between 0.01 KByte and your line > limit (~750 KByte/s). Are there any 10/50 VDSL T-Com Tor operators here? Your experiences? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ative

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
n't for the weak of heart. If anonymous access is made illegal I don't expect more than 1-5% of the population of using it. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http:/

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
iffed but also accountable, and hence less prone to abuse. On top of that you can have a network that anonymous/pseudonymous, unaccountable, and slightly abusive. There's a place for both of them to exist. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: Help Iranian dissidents

2009-06-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
what they need to do. > Being opaque, they work on other things first. > I suspect this is possible, so I started a wiki page that could, in a > future form, be useful to this class: > https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/EmbeddedTips That is an excellent idea. > It would

Re: Help Iranian dissidents

2009-06-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
with suitable directional aerials) wireless cloud. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
No complaints so far. > The problem remains: No exit nodes, no reliable/fast/stable/anonymous > TOR. This has to be fixed, and the urgency to fix this gets stronger > every day (see geopolitical stuff, yallayalla). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: Hetzner

2009-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
them forwarded (I'd be happy if they > would just throw them away. Same effect). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: SCTP

2009-06-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:07:49AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > This may seem to some like beating a dead horse, but SCTP really is > coming to the Internet. It just looks too useful to die like OSI did. The > more I find out about it, the more it looks like a really good match for > tor.

Re: Internet censorship in Germany is now official

2009-05-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:56:22AM +0200, Benjamin S. wrote: > > At least not directly, but their operators could be more prone to be > > implicated in some police investigation, because an exit-node IP may > > repeatedly appear in the log files of the pages where blocked requests > > will b

How anonymity technology could save free speech on the Internet.

2009-04-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=22427&channel=computing§ion= May/June 2009 Dissent Made Safer How anonymity technology could save free speech on the Internet. By David Talbot "Sokwanele" means "enough is enough" in a certain Bantu dialect. It is also the nam

Re: Internet censorship in Germany is now official

2009-04-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
the parliament. Given the track record so far, Germany is finished. I suggest emigration (while it is still possible), or getting ready for armed resistance. Nothing else is going to help. I wish I was kidding. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Internet censorship in Germany is now official

2009-04-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
So they've been logging connection info for 3+ months already, and now there's censorship (currently implemented via DNS, but this will change, of course), logging of the blocked connections, and all kind of ominous language and promises to extend the censorship list (secret, of course, and you'l

Social sites dent privacy efforts

2009-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967648.stm Social sites dent privacy efforts Greater use of social sites makes it harder to hide Greater use of social network sites is making it harder to maintain true anonymity, suggests research. By analysing links between users of social sites, resea

Re: Howto limit number of connections?

2009-03-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
m0n0wall and use your WL-153 just as an access point henceforth. http://pfsense.com/ http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
ome 50-70 m outside my window. Elsewhere 100 MBit/s or GBit/s fiber to the home is being rolled out, and that's symmetric bandwidth. I think we'll see the network getting a lot speedier as the residential broadband improves. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://lei

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
it/s cable modem. >just waiting on first call from my ISP ;). 300GB of traffic is far >over any "normal" usage of home internet, especially in contry of > former CCCP :-D: -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
choices around here are distressingly poor. There's not much point running Tor on capped residential broadband. Rent a server with a decent traffic plan and throttle your Tor so you're within limits. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
Developer: http://workaround.ch/ > > don' t waste your time in Slackintosh. Become a tor developer and write > a module that helps to ban all bittorent traffic from the tor network. > -- > Germershausen > germershau...@fastmail.fm > > -- >

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:46:41AM -0800, Germershausen wrote: > You should not use the tor network for bittorrent. If you live in china > or maybe the iran i would say ok, but you are living in Germany, People > like you make tor sick. If Tor is not abuseproof it will die. Anything starting with

Re: Tor speed

2009-02-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
improvement. The problem with JAP is that they are complying with the data retention laws. http://blog.pozimski.eu/?p=564=1 -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http:/

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
t; anyone - there will be people who abuse it. > > It might also have legal implications. Receiving money for a service > might render it a 'business', to which other rules (like keeping > logfiles of forwarded connections or something) might apply that will > bring in yet oth

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:37:05PM -0500, tor-opera...@sky-haven.net wrote: > Incidentally, I work at a (different) hosting provider. We aren't > particularly interested in being defenders of people's rights. If > someone cost us money or time in proportions we find to be excessive, we > assert

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
fake abuse. I'm not sure whether this is being done or needed, since the idiot background is pretty high already. I think just having an exit with port 22 and 443 open would be valuable already, force some users to use end-to-end encryption and somewhat limit abuse. -- Eugen* Le

Re: Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
e node, not an exit node. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Xinwen Fu > > Yes, and one pertty nice day we have 1 middlemen and no exit node anymore. 1 middlemen with hidden services and no exits wouldn't be all that bad, actually.

Re: failed to choose an exit server

2009-02-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
> than that it seems that my Tor client is working perfectly. > > Can somebody help me to understand why is this happening and how to fix it? How many exit servers are out there total? What's the ratio of exit/middlemen? -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: JanusPA - A hardware Privacy Adapter using Tor

2008-12-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
ed hardware base, have you considered ALIX? http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm They might not be as small as Gumstix, but fairly small at 6x6". I've ordered an alix2d3 + case + DC adapter for ~100 EUR sans VAT the other day. A SLC CF goes a long time with these, if mounted noatime.

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:32:57PM +0100, Sven Anderson wrote: > Since you seem to talk about Germany: Again, data retention does and > will not happen on a per-packet basis and especially not on the > transport layer (TCP/UDP) with the current law. There will "only" be Thanks for the point

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:23:40AM -0500, pho...@rootme.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:24:01AM +0100, eu...@leitl.org wrote 0.1K bytes in > 3 lines about: > : > : This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult > : than TCP/IP. > > How would UDP make data retention

Re: UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:23:25PM +0100, slush wrote: > >No. This monosyllabic answer no doubt comes from in-depth knowledge of legal requirements in regards to data retention for ISPs in Germany? >2008/12/19 Eugen Leitl <[1]eu...@leitl.org> > > This is off

UDP and data retention

2008-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult than TCP/IP.

Re: technical solution for censorship [was: UK internet filtering]

2008-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
vices as a stopgap measure, until the next-generation distributed cryptographic filesystems etc. become widespread. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://post

Re: Any plans to fix tor for OpenDNS?

2008-11-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
tp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=caching+DNS+server -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: Any plans to fix tor for OpenDNS?

2008-11-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:58:51AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Thanks for the link. I had switched to OpenDNS to avoid some of the critical > problems recently with "normal" DNS servers. Have you considered running your own (caching) DNS server? -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: privoxy

2008-11-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
Can someone please explain to me how? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: Crashing relay (was any middlemen seeing DoS currently?)

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
> to avoid a bug with my dynamic IP (I posted previously under thread > 'Problem with dynamic IP'). > Thanks, -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ww

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
re manual flushes. http://eugen.leitl.org/status_rrd_graph_img.php.png The server sees some 25 GBytes/day traffic. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://post

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: > > I've seen continuous table state increase since about >3.5 hours. > > It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. > > > > Anyone else seeing this? > > yes, the same here Anyon

any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've seen continuous table state increase since about >3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? Any alternative explanation to DoS? (ISP throttling?). Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl

Re: German data rentention law

2008-10-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
mind -- both are not bargain options. There are of course several other, illegal possibilities. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B2

FYI: ultimate security proxy with tor

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
ured. (squid-in) 4. Havp, with squid-in as parent. (Anti-virus proxy, using clamav :) ) 5. Second squid, that will use havp as parent (squid-out). Users will connect to this one. etc. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org

Re: Tor Exit node on Intel Atom 230 anyone?

2008-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
g exit > nodes in their network, they even list Tor as possible application in > their offers. This smells. Caveat emptor. Use EUServ as middleman at best, if you must. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org ___

how much does opera leak?

2008-10-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
I have tor/privoxy running on one host on the network, and connect from another machine using Opera (9.52). How much does Opera leak in comparison with a tightly configured Firefox? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://l

Re: hijacking DNS server

2008-09-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:42:14PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Howdy, > > finally gotten around to try getting Tor (nonbundle) up on a sacrificial > G4 Mac Mini (Leopard). > > Unfortunately my crappy ISP does DNS hijacking: > > Sep 22 17:18:25.266 [notice] Your

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