Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 274: A Name System API for Tor Onion Services

2016-10-07 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
Hi George, A nice proposal! A question that occurs to me is how the name plugin will interact with the network. Presumably it will make requests over Tor, either periodically to update its local database, or just-in-time, whenever a RESOLVE request is made. If name resolution requires a just-in-t

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser downloads and updates graphs

2016-09-14 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
This is awesome, Karsten! On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/09/16 18:13, Georg Koppen wrote: >> Here are the graphs showing initial downloads, update pings and >> update requests over time: >> >> https://people.torp

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser and Privoxy

2016-06-04 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
Hi Paulo, This sounds highly inadvisable to me. Interposing Privoxy between Tor Browser and Tor will most likely drastically reduce the anonymity provided by Tor Browser, for multiple reasons: 1. Privoxy filters and modifies the web page in ways that are likely to be observable to both to visited

Re: [tor-dev] Request for feedback/victims: cfc

2016-03-23 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Yawning Angel wrote: > My "proof of concept" tech demo is what I consider good enough for > use by brave people that aren't me, so I have put up an XPI package > at: https://people.torproject.org/~yawning/volatile/cfc-20160323/ Very cool! > * If archive.is is e

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser videos Automation

2015-07-11 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
" integer pref and set to 11491200 4. Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings: Turn "Remote DNS" off Then I could see my localhost page by entering http://torproject.org in the URL bar. Arthur On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Sherief Alaa wrote: > > > On

Re: [tor-dev] Tor Browser videos Automation

2015-07-09 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
Hi Sherief, Karsten insisted that I have to run a local copy of torproject.org using a web server while the automated script runs since we can't estimate or depend on the connection speed. The major blocker in this is that the browser redirects to h

Re: [tor-dev] Summary of meek's costs, April 2015

2015-05-06 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
Maybe you could rig up something that shuts down the instance? Or does Amazon charge you even then? On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:16 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:56:36AM -0700, Arthur D. Edelstein wrote: >> > Amazon sucks and they don't have any automatic w

Re: [tor-dev] Summary of meek's costs, April 2015

2015-05-06 Thread Arthur D. Edelstein
> Amazon sucks and they don't have any automatic way to shut down a > service. I emailed them and they were very clear about that. The best > you can do is set up an email alert at different cost threshold (which I > have done). But that requires someone with credentials to be awake and > online wh