Re: Orbot transparent proxy working on rooted android?

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
. The alternative I do is create a PPTP VPN tunnel back to my home server that is running JanusVM. The downside is everything goes through the vpn, including apps like e-mail when all you want is a browser using it. On Sep 14, 2010 7:27 PM, Stephen Carpenter thec...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone had any

Orbot transparent proxy working on rooted android?

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Has anyone had any luck getting orbot working on android 2.2? I installed it from the market, and it of course, immediately set out to root the android. I did it, and orbot requested root access, I granted it. Then I turned on transparent proxy, and selected browser and a couple of other apps to

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
And I imagine that means you were too nice to respond with Can I please talk to someone who actually understands what I am talking about? Way back in the day when ISPs offered shell accounts, I noticed that ping was in sbin on solaris. So I made myself a ~/bin dir and made a sym link to ping (I

Re: problem with bridges and a suggestion

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:51 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:18:44PM +0800, for.tor.bri...@gmail.com wrote 1.3K bytes in 36 lines about: : this morning, I got some new bridges through a hidden https proxy and : established a TOR circuit, but after some time, I

Re: Reducing relays = reducing anonymity ? Tortunnel.

2010-05-19 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number of relays ? Yes, unfortunately quite a few people use it. It hurts the network by endangering exit node operators, and by completely

Re: What can see a server of a Bittorent when I contact with it through Tor?

2010-02-25 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:20 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think there's much of anything wrong with using Tor for bittorrent provided: a) You do all operations in Tor... NO use of exit relays, in other words, entirely in onionspace. The smart reader will already know how to

Re: Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Two things On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:03 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: It sounds like you need to create a new profile and see if it has the same issues, or simply purge the firefox installed and install it again. Fixed it! Many thanks! Maybe I should nuke my anonymous profile from orbit

Re: Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:54:04PM -0500, thec...@gmail.com wrote 3.9K bytes in 75 lines about: : A while back I setup a second firefox profile just for tor, and recently : installed torbutton instead of leaving it naked. Now I am

Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This is more of a firefox issue than tor, but I am hoping someone has run into this and knows what I am seeing. Firefox/torbutton/tor has me about to rip hair out. I have used tor for a while, kicked around a location hidden service. Decided I wanted to experiment some more. A while back I setup