Re: [tor-relays] Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]

> On 7 Jul 2016, at 15:29, Andreas Krey wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:06:00 +, grarpamp wrote: > ... >> https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-spyi.html > > Is there a way to make tor log connection attempts to any ports > on an hidden service

Re: [tor-relays] Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:06:00 +, grarpamp wrote: ... > https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-spyi.html Is there a way to make tor log connection attempts to any ports on an hidden service address, independent of whether the port actually has a HiddenServicePort? > All

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

s7r: > The path of a circuit is selected by the client (i.e. user). So, > each and every relay / bridge, in order to be considered a valid one, > should be able to extend a circuit when requested to any other > relay, otherwise everything gets broken. So does everything break if there are

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/06/2016 11:10 PM, nusenu wrote: > I find https://compass.torproject.org more convenient for that > task. +1 The bubbles aren't useful IMO. - -- Toralf PGP: C4EACDDE 0076E94E, OTR: 420E74C8 30246EE7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote: >>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems >>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of >>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that >>> per month, it's well worth it). >>

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

> On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote: >>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems >>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of >>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that >>> per month, it's well worth it). >>

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

Am 06.07.2016 um 22:09 schrieb Iain R. Learmonth: > Hi, > > On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote: >>> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems >>> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of >>> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits and non-Exits

Hi, On 06/07/16 18:25, tor relay wrote: >> I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems >> so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of >> traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that >> per month, it's well worth it). > >

Re: [tor-relays] BoingBoing Says Running Exits Is No Trouble re: LEA

On 7/6/16, Green Dream wrote: > It seems easier to say "don't worry about it, it's not really a problem" > from that perspective. That's a given. > For the average Tor volunteer operator, all that comfort, protection and > privilege is gone. _My_ ass is on the line. Or

Re: [tor-relays] BoingBoing Says Running Exits Is No Trouble re: LEA

Except the operators at BoingBoing have the privilege of corporate liability (instead of personal liability), and very likely corporate counsel (i.e., a nice legal team) as well. It seems easier to say "don't worry about it, it's not really a problem" from that perspective. For the average Tor

[tor-relays] Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]

On 7/6/16, Roger Dingledine wrote: > In this > case we actually found these relays misbehaving (accessing onion https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-spyi.html http://motherboard.vice.com/read/over-100-snooping-tor-nodes-have-been-spying-on-dark-web-sites

[tor-relays] BoingBoing Says Running Exits Is No Trouble re: LEA

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/01/researchers-find-over-100-spyi.html "Many people fear that running an exit node will put them in police crosshairs if it gets used in the commission of a crime. For the record, Boing Boing runs a very high-capacity exit node, and though we've received multiple

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

I've been running an exit node for over a year on OVH now, no problems so far. Highly recommended (especially since they give me 10TB of traffic for about 10$USD/month; considering I use about 7-8TB of that per month, it's well worth it). *Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu* j...@jpdm.org

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

On 7/6/2016 4:50 PM, Ivan Markin wrote: > Andreas Krey: >> That will cause issues for everyone that happens to select your >> relay and the 'blocked' relays in a circuit - the connections will >> just fail, and the user will wonder what happened, and why TBB >> doesn't work. > > Sure, I made a

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

Andreas Krey: > That will cause issues for everyone that happens to select your > relay and the 'blocked' relays in a circuit - the connections will > just fail, and the user will wonder what happened, and why TBB > doesn't work. Sure, I made a notice that you shouldn't do it if you care about

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:00:22PM -0700, Green Dream wrote: > So... what's going on in this particular case and what are the directory > authorities going to do, if anything? Yesterday we started the move towards blocking them. (The move takes a little while, since it needs a sufficient fraction

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

On 7/6/16, Green Dream wrote: >> It's up to directory authority operators to deal with >> suspicious/rogue/misconfigured relays by marking them as >> invalid/rejected/badexit. > > So... what's going on in this particular case and what are the directory > authorities going

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

I am testing www.hostwinds.com and www.digitalocean.com right now, both work fine atm. Markus 2016-07-06 10:19 GMT+02:00 tor relay : >> Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite because I >> hardly ever get abuse >> complaints. For ITL, I may leave

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

simon: > If I understood the documentation correctly, as a node operator I can't > blacklist hosts individually (unless I'm putting them into MyFamily, > which I don't want to). AFAIK, there is no option in tor itself to exclude relays from the routing. But you're still able to restrict

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for Exits

> Well, I'm still sticking with CoolHousing/Virtual Server Lite because I > hardly ever get abuse > complaints. For ITL, I may leave after my term expires. > But a few other companies I found were: > https://hostmaze.com/ tested it, made really bad experience with them, network performance was