Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

2011-09-09 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
On 08.09.2011 21:23, Matthew wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-software ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk It is

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services

2011-09-09 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
On 01.09.2011 13:24, Roger Dingledine wrote: Several people have asked us on irc about recent news articles like http://wireupdate.com/wires/19812/dutch-police-infiltrate-hidden-child-porn-websites-in-the-u-s/ Apparently the Dutch police exploited vulnerabilities in the webservers reachable

Re: [tor-talk] Mac?

2011-09-09 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-09-09 05:09 , cmeclax-sazri wrote: On Thursday 08 September 2011 22:02:56 Andre Risling wrote: - Who stores the MAC address of the computer you're using? The ISP? An Webmail service? On IPv4, a MAC address goes only as far as the local network (the MAC address my router has on

[tor-talk] TB-1.4.2

2011-09-09 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
I have install the TB-1.4.2 on my Iceweasel 3.5.16 working under Debian Squeeze AMD64. I can see new option New Identity in that version of TB, but it is disables. What is that option and why it disabled? Furtherinmore, there are no option reffer spoof in the TB-1.4.2; why?

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services

2011-09-09 Thread tor
On 09/09/11 09:36, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: Set up a firewall on the VM to prevent all other network traffic going in or out of it. I meant to say set up a firewall on the *host* OS to prevent all other traffic going in or out of the VM. I'd probably set up a firewall on the VM it's self

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services

2011-09-09 Thread tor
On 09/09/11 06:43, Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: Very intresting what is the vulnerabilities they used for breaking systems? In the lite of that facts I don't know what I need to advice my clients - setting up hidden services on their home computers or on overseas vdses? (My clients are not

Re: [tor-talk] TB-1.4.2

2011-09-09 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:41:28AM +, Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: I have install the TB-1.4.2 on my Iceweasel 3.5.16 working under Debian Squeeze AMD64. You should realize that using Torbutton on your own browser is a dying concept:

Re: [tor-talk] Mac?

2011-09-09 Thread Julian Yon
On 09/09/11 03:02, Andre Risling wrote: - Why would someone want to change (spoof) their MAC address? If you're an activist who travels the country and uses free WiFi to access the internet, you might not want to make it any easier for law enforcement to track your movements. Julian

Re: [tor-talk] Check wether IP has been a Tor node

2011-09-09 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:52:36PM +0200, morphium wrote: where is the Page, where I can check wether an IP has been an exit node at a given time? https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html or https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html Good luck! Let us know if we can be more

Re: [tor-talk] Check wether IP has been a Tor node

2011-09-09 Thread Jens Kubieziel
* morphium schrieb am 2011-09-09 um 12:52 Uhr: where is the Page, where I can check wether an IP has been an exit node at a given time? URL:https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html Besten Gruß -- Jens Kubieziel http://www.kubieziel.de Enten legen ihre

Re: [tor-talk] TB-1.4.2

2011-09-09 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
On 09.09.2011 10:36, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:41:28AM +, Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: I have install the TB-1.4.2 on my Iceweasel 3.5.16 working under Debian Squeeze AMD64. You should realize that using Torbutton on your own browser is a dying concept:

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services

2011-09-09 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
On 09.09.2011 08:36, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: On 09/09/11 06:43, Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: Very intresting what is the vulnerabilities they used for breaking systems? In the lite of that facts I don't know what I need to advice my clients - setting up hidden services on their home

Re: [tor-talk] Mac?

2011-09-09 Thread Andre Risling
-- andr...@fastmail.fm On Friday, September 09, 2011 11:08 AM, Julian Yon jul...@yon.org.uk wrote: On 09/09/11 03:02, Andre Risling wrote: - Why would someone want to change (spoof) their MAC address? If you're an activist who travels the country and uses free WiFi to access the

[tor-talk] Please help me to resolve the following error

2011-09-09 Thread Faisal Rehman
Dear All, Good Day!! I am configuring my own private tor directory server but I have finalized all the steps but when I run tor with my own configured tor configuration file, it gives me the following error: Sep 09 12:44:39.953 [notice] Tor v0.2.1.30. This is experimental software. Do not

Re: [tor-talk] Check wether IP has been a Tor node

2011-09-09 Thread morphium
Hi! 2011/9/9 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu: On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:52:36PM +0200, morphium wrote: where is the Page, where I can check wether an IP  has been an exit node at a given time? https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html or https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html

Re: [tor-talk] Mac?

2011-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Andre Risling wrote: I've forgotten already if someone answered thisbut with the free WiFi connections do they typically get your MAC address? I've noticed in Ubuntu that when the computer is booted up and before I connect to the web the

Re: [tor-talk] HTTPS Everywhere

2011-09-09 Thread Seth David Schoen
Colin Klett writes: I'm using the current Browser Bundle and wondering if installing the HTTPS Everywhere extension would provide any additional security? If you're using the current Browser Bundle, you're already using the HTTPS Everywhere extension. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior

[tor-talk] HTTPS Everywhere

2011-09-09 Thread Colin Klett
I'm using the current Browser Bundle and wondering if installing the HTTPS Everywhere extension would provide any additional security? ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

2011-09-09 Thread Dave Jevans
DARPA has funded a project to develop a stego type communications system as a next generation TOR. Its called SAFER Warfighter Communications. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/SAFER_Warfighter_Communications_(SAFER).aspx On Sep 8, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Michael Holstein

Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 09/08/2011 08:02 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: From: Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu On 09/08/2011 05:23 PM, Matthew wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-software Very disturbing. I wonder if its possible to hide encrypted traffic as

Re: [tor-talk] TB-1.4.2

2011-09-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/9/2011 7:20 AM, Greg Kalitnikoff wrote: Is there a way to not to close Vidalia and Tor itself with browser exit? Or open TB`s Firefox separately fully functional, with New identity option? When I need to restart FF or when it crashes, it is very inconvenient to start all cycle again:

Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

2011-09-09 Thread Phillip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-software It is very bad news because I am affraid that another tyrannical regimes such as Russian can make do it too. But it seems to me that Tor-users can use bridges and etc. for avoiding repressive measures from law

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-09 Thread andrew
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:03:35PM +0200, k...@uva.nl wrote 7.4K bytes in 147 lines about: : Requests: Why? [1] from the Tor-talk mailinglist. Some believe (credits : to @ly_gs for enlightening me) that the August 2011 spike in Tor users : via bridges may be related to the Dutch police

Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

2011-09-09 Thread andrew
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:23:41PM +0100, pump...@cotse.net wrote 1.4K bytes in 42 lines about: : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-software I talked to someone from the pakistani government about this encryption ban early this spring. They were concerned that

Re: [tor-talk] Location App

2011-09-09 Thread andrew
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:56:07PM +0100, spoo...@gmail.com wrote 3.5K bytes in 93 lines about: : I know I will need to supply the exitnode fingerprints, I was looking for a : way to get the list of fingerprints form a tor status server and automate : the whole process This app you want to

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch police break into webservers over hidden services

2011-09-09 Thread andrew
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:43:50AM +, tor-ad...@orionjurinform.com wrote 2.2K bytes in 45 lines about: : Very intresting what is the vulnerabilities they used for breaking systems? This question can likely only be answered by the authorities. The obvious attacks are against the webserver

[tor-talk] Better TBB about:config settings(?); re: browsing and loading speed, etc.

2011-09-09 Thread John Crimby
Hello, I just made a new trac ticket for this topic. In case this e-mail does not appear properly formatted on TorTalk list, the trac ticket can be found here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3978 I have been testing the following about:config settings (specific to Firefox 6)

[tor-talk] Is the Hidden Wiki dead?!

2011-09-09 Thread John Crimby
Hello, For some days (weeks?) the Hidden Wiki (http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion) has been down. Does anyone know what's going on? Will it come back up soon? Are there other places that list many Hidden Services, besides the Hidden Wiki? ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Is the Hidden Wiki dead?!

2011-09-09 Thread John Crimby
--- On Fri, 9/9/11, John Crimby wrote: Hello, For some days (weeks?) the Hidden Wiki (http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion) has been down. Does anyone know what's going on? Will it come back up soon? Are there other places that list many Hidden Services, besides the Hidden Wiki? Well, it looks

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 2.2.32 Automatic Updates

2011-09-09 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake sigi (torn...@cpunk.de): We hope to better answer these questions in a Tor Browser Bundle design document. Just one of the many other items that were supposed to go into a new stable release that got pushed aside due to recent events:

Re: [tor-talk] Is the Hidden Wiki dead?!

2011-09-09 Thread John Crimby
Arma was kind enough to bonk me on the head to point out the problem is one of timezone or clock or date. He was correct. My clock was over 180 minutes off (due to timezone issues). Hidden Services are working just fine. ... back to your regularly scheduled broadcasts ...

[tor-talk] Email through Tor and VPN questions

2011-09-09 Thread Advrk Aplmrkt
Hello, I recently setup my own Tor relay, and its exciting! But I've had the following questions about Tor for a while: (1) I read in a recent list posting that paid private VPN services provides no anonymity. According to some of those providers, they don't keep any log of your connections. Is