Re: [tor-talk] Blocking Shadowserver honeypots

2011-03-21 Thread Jan Reister
On 19/03/2011 00:02, Alexander Bernauer wrote: I don't quite understand how any attacker is trapped by a honepot that is publicly marked as being one. Furthermore, I don't know how this IRC bot is able to operate with mail and web ports only as my tor exit node is dropping everything else. It

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Joe Btfsplk
1st, thanks for the refresher, Paul. I'll bet most users didn't know Tor was started by the NRL. Unfortunately, for many, that won't ease their minds much. I don't have the knowledge skills to check Tor's source code bet well 90% of users don't either. I know (knew) my comments on Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, katmagic the.magical@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:07:49 -0400 Paul Syverson syver...@itd.nrl.navy.mil wrote: universities are in on it, and the supposedly independent researchers who found code flaws were also in on it (or sock puppets created

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Klaus Layer
Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote on 21.03.2011: Again, WHY would Sam develop or fund technology that would make it possible for * their enemies * to communicate anonymously and privately, possibly allowing them to plot against him, with ABSOLUTELY no way to decipher that communication?

Re: [tor-talk] how to install torrent tor

2011-03-21 Thread Curious Kid
- Original Message From: Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org; torserv...@freelists.org Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 5:07:47 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] how to install torrent tor Hi Zaher, On 20.03.2011 22:43, Zaher F. wrote: i have downloaded

Re: [tor-talk] how to install torrent tor

2011-03-21 Thread Zaher F .
From: jmap...@ufl.edu To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:18:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [tor-talk] how to install torrent tor On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Curious Kid wrote: I looks to me like Zaher F. mistakenly believes that this is a bundle created to

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/21/2011 2:39 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Last comments for a while. (All I have time for, sorry.) I'm just going to respond to specific issues about system threats and the like. I appreciate your comments the work of all involved

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Lucky Green
On 2011-03-21 16:17, Joe Btfsplk wrote: [...] I don't pretend to know the answers, but know when to ask questions. For all I know, the US wants the enemy to use Tor for plotting, thinking they're anonymous, when they're not. No one's answering my specific questions, possibly because if they

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Al MailingList
That's a very good point klaus. Joe - if you think the US Government is one big cohesive entity that funds projects consistently from a single pool of resources and money then I would politely suggest you may not have had much to do with them :P Alfred On 21 Mar 2011 16:27, Klaus Layer

Re: [tor-talk] How evil is TLS cert collection?

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Robert Ransom (rransom.8...@gmail.com): On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:58:06 -0700 Mike Perry mikepe...@fscked.org wrote: However, I'm not sure that this is going to work for Tor Browser Bundle users (which ships with HTTPS Everywhere) who may have the TBB on readonly USB keys or

Re: [tor-talk] How evil is TLS cert collection?

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Robert Ransom (rransom.8...@gmail.com): On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:05:30 -0400 Joseph Lorenzo Hall joeh...@gmail.com wrote: It strikes me that I'd want notice (or the option to get notice) before submitting rare certs to the database... say a dialog like: We're about to submit

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Mike Perry mikepe...@fscked.org wrote: For example: Trust the community. So many different people have worked on, volunteered for, attacked, reviewed, and researched tor-related topics from so many different institutions and backgrounds that it is *the* most

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): On 3/21/2011 2:39 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Last comments for a while. (All I have time for, sorry.) I'm just going to respond to specific issues about system threats and the like. I