[tor-talk] TBB Users: We Need New Directions on Torifying Software!

2012-01-03 Thread x1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x0
This page: Torifying software HOWTO: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO is now, for most people using the Tor Browser Bundle, obsolete. We who use the TBB do not have torify, usewithtor, tor-resolve, socat, torsocks, privoxy, polipo and other types of programs within

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Chris
You have to add the Tor repository to your distributions /etc/apt/sources.list file and then you will get the latest Tor software. In fact your system should automatically inform you of these new versions and ask you to update just like any other software in the main repository of your

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Øyvind Sæther
I have tended to find that the packaged tor is virtually always behind and so I get notices that there is a new version and I should upgrade but with no means of doing so because all that is available is the browser bundle. As already pointed out, these pages: Debian:

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew R
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:42 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:17:43PM +, magick...@gmail.com wrote 3.2K bytes in 82 lines about: : Second, I installed as suggested here (option two) for Ubuntu lucid: : https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en Just a

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:42, Julian Yon jul...@yon.org.uk wrote: There's a good reason still to use the Tor Browser: it provides a standard environment which is the same as every* other Tor user's. Safety in numbers is never truer than with anonymity; compare with the Black Bloc tactic often

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Julian Yon
On 03/01/12 21:14, Maxim Kammerer wrote: [A pointless rant masquerading as rhetoric] I'd offer you some chill pills, but I need all of mine. If you want to arse about and spend your entire life tweaking settings that's up to you. You know your own skill set. Most people I know, including many

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Chris
On 03/01/12 16:44, Øyvind Sæther wrote: Just ignore the Browser bundle bullshit, that's for stupid Windows users and pointless on *nix systems. There's a good reason still to use the Tor Browser: it provides a standard environment which is the same as every* other Tor user's. Safety in

Re: [tor-talk] need help with the Lasy version of the Tor Browser

2012-01-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/3/2012 8:51 AM, Андрей Перовский wrote: Hello Everybody! I need you help very much. The last version of the Tor Browser is standing on @relaing the network status@ wile loading. In what the problem could be. Have you got any suggestions? ___

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew
You can only go so far in attempting to blend all the users together into one indistinguishable group, so the Tor Browser Bundle's job is to give it the best possible shot. It can't possibly do everything, catch all cases, or correct your unique fingerprint of spelling mistakes. However, it

Re: [tor-talk] Real basic questions for linux

2012-01-03 Thread Julian Yon
On 03/01/12 23:03, Chris wrote: Even then there could still be ways to fingerprint and connect a user. Your ISP, your modem, and other latency or surfing particularities. Do you always spell a particular set of words wrong? Or do you always spell every word right? Tor should deal with the

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2012-01-03 Thread andrew
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:23:39PM +, magick...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 29 lines about: : But - returning to my Vidalia question - should I be using the ControlPort : or the ControlSocket in the Vidalia advanced tab. Currently it is set : to: The control port with a decent password,

[tor-talk] Invalid Server Certificate accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

2012-01-03 Thread Greg
Hi, I searched google for people having problems accessing torproject.org from Chrome on Windows, but I didn't see much besides a discussion on December 21 about an outage (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.tor.general/2514). I can access torproject.org from Firefox on my windows (server