Re: [tor-relays] I'm Running A Tor Exit But Never Initiated It

2016-05-29 Thread david . carlson . 417
Two thoughts: I did not see mentioned whether your Wi-fi is secured.If your running a guest machine in a vm you will not know about the host.Have you tried booting into a rescue DVD? David C Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT 4G LTE tablet -- Original message--From:

Re: [tor-relays] exit and skype

2013-11-11 Thread David Carlson
On 11/10/2013 5:37 AM, Thomas Hand wrote: This is true. Some websites download lists of all relays and just mass block the ips. Its usually webmasters who have no idea how tor works and don't realise that a middle relay poses them no threat whatsoever. This is why education is best. If

Re: [tor-relays] exit and skype

2013-11-09 Thread David Carlson
On 11/9/2013 10:15 AM, Jon Gardner wrote: On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Jan Hendrik den Besten t...@janhendrik.eu wrote: Boy, now I am in trouble... I run an exit node from my home address for a few weeks now, but my gf starts complaining she cannot use Skype anymore to chat with her mum. I

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-23 Thread David Carlson
On 10/23/2013 10:09 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: Hello Tor relay operators, We could use your help in a pilot project to improve Tor security. As you may be aware, the anonymity of a connection over Tor is vulnerable to an adversary who can observe it in enough places along its route. For

Re: [tor-relays] Relay security, re: local network

2013-09-25 Thread David Carlson
On 9/25/2013 11:10 AM, Joe wrote: Hi, I'm planning to run a Tor relay on a spare computer at home. Security is a concern, and not only regarding the machine running the relay but also my other computers. Are there any (theoretical or otherwise) known attacks a person can perform on a running

[tor-relays] Tor flood symptom?

2013-09-23 Thread David Carlson
My relay that has been running release 0.2.4.17-rc for several day now has become saturated with what I would consider 'noise' - namely a huge amount of handshake activity. It does respond downward to lowereing the bandwidth setting, but the bandwidth graph is nearly flat. Now I have just

Re: [tor-relays] non-exit risks?

2013-09-20 Thread David Carlson
On 9/20/2013 9:17 AM, That Guy wrote: You're probably fine, especially if not running an exit. You didn't list your home country, though; I'm assuming United States. Best, -Gordon M. While I know you have vastly more knowledge and experience than me and often my observations or worries

Re: [tor-relays] non-exit risks?

2013-09-20 Thread David Carlson
On 9/20/2013 10:23 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 09/20/2013 04:17 PM, That Guy wrote: While I know you have vastly more knowledge and experience than me and often my observations or worries are doe to me mis-understanding something but about the comment above, I have experienced issues running

[tor-relays] The Tor flood

2013-09-06 Thread David Carlson
I think that it may be somewhat ego-centric to accept the argument that this apparent flood is actually directed at the Tor network. It may be that the real goal is to find efficient weapons to attack the Internet as a whole, or major segments of it. It may be measuring the response time of the

Re: [tor-relays] ExitPolicy reject *:* ships commented out?

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/29/2013 9:17 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: Bryan Carey: It's possible. One should always review all configuration files before making their node operational. You can't assume that it will be configured in a particular manner. I mean, who would have thought the TBB would ship with

Re: [tor-relays] legal issues past and present

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/30/2013 1:04 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:38:26AM -0400, That Guy wrote: I run an exit node off of a residential Verizon connection and I haven't seen a single threat, legal or otherwise so far, I dunno why you're having so much trouble. Thank you for the reply

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/29/2013 11:09 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +, Gordon Morehouse wrote: ... Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 buildtimes. Random data point: I had these