Re: Ultimate solution

2007-03-24 Thread sy16
Dear Mr phobos, I know just enough to enable loggin, and I can see there is something called UPNP disabled. Right. But I didn't do it. Where is it, and should I turn it on? I am told that my router is a firewall. There are also Windows' own firewall and other commercial 'total protection suites'.

Re: Ultimate solution

2007-03-23 Thread sy16
Thank you JT, you expressed so eloquently what I have been thinking. Yes, please come out with a ready server package. I am a noob who sometimes don't even understand the messages in the log (and not at all the debug log). I have been trying to get my boxes to run as servers for weeks. No luck. An

502 Bad Gateway

2007-03-19 Thread sy16
[Warning] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received http status code 502 ("Bad Gateway") from server '212.227.108.114:80' while fetching "/tor/status/fp/7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44038BBFA077587DD755.z". I'll try again soon. I got two entries like this in the log today. Yesterday the message numbe

Re: Warnings on the download page

2007-03-08 Thread sy16
My suggestions as a no-tech user: Perhaps the Warning should be put on top of the page, before the download links - sometimes people don't go further than the download links. Also, might I suggest NoScript to be used in conjunction with QuickJava? And please add a line reminding users to reload

Re: blog about tor and skype

2007-03-06 Thread sy16
I don't know how to force skype to use only tcp, but one way to know whether it is using tcp (therefore tor) is to look at the little flag before the place where you enter the phone number. When it is different from where I am, it is probably using tor. I'll check out zfone and probably switch

Re: blog about tor and skype

2007-03-06 Thread sy16
llance and anonymity: http://www.anti1984.com New GPG key ID: 4096R/87FF3BA2, old key is revoked. sy16 schrieb: > A quick note: > > I mean skype sms and skypeout calls, both types are to non-skype > mobile phones instead of to another skype user. > > > */sy16 /* wrote: > &

Re: blog about tor and skype

2007-03-06 Thread sy16
A quick note: I mean skype sms and skypeout calls, both types are to non-skype mobile phones instead of to another skype user. sy16 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I send a text message in skype through tor, is it or is it not encrypted by tor? If I make a skype call through tor, is the

blog about tor and skype

2007-03-06 Thread sy16
I read in this blog http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-anonymous-communication-with-tor-some-hints-and-some-pitfalls in the comment/reply section: Not meant for privacy It seems like there's a slight misunderstanding here. This setup is not going to anyonymize all of your Skype

Re: anonymous v. normal session

2007-02-27 Thread sy16
f 60. On 2/27/07, sy16 wrote: > I need advice on anonymous v. normal sessions. > > Tor has saved me from packet sniffers and MITM attacks since I started using > it. These attacks always and only happened during my banking sessions. I > inferred that my net traffic must have been cl

anonymous v. normal session

2007-02-27 Thread sy16
I need advice on anonymous v. normal sessions. Tor has saved me from packet sniffers and MITM attacks since I started using it. These attacks always and only happened during my banking sessions. I inferred that my net traffic must have been closely monitored by someone (I have a private-detecti

Newbie's questions

2007-02-27 Thread sy16
I have very little computer knowledge and am very happy to have found Tor. According to the pictures on the Tor homepage, my communications are green (encrypted) until they reach the destination, there they become red (unencrypted). Here are my questions. (1) Does it mean that even when I visit