[tor-talk] A question about Tor & Hidden Services

2012-01-07 Thread Kevin H. E.
Hello all, I am wondering if it is possible to pass the hostname & private key on a hidden service directly to the control socket, without writing it to the hard drive (and without passing it to the process as a startup argument). Thanks! ___ tor-talk mai

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity & HTTPS Everywhere Observatory

2012-01-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Well, when I installed TBB 2.2.35-4, the HTTPS Everywhere version is 2.0 dev 4. Possibly the version updated along w/ any other extensions, on 1st start of TBB 2.2.35-4? But, that's what I have & I'd never seen the pop up about the Observatory before now. On 1/7/2012 11:46 AM, and...@torpro

[tor-talk] 2 questions on HTTPS Everywhere settings

2012-01-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
What are others' opinions of these setting in NoScript in TBB (latest TBB 2.2.35-4)? 1) In Options > HTTPS>Behavior, the "forbid active web content unless comes from an HTTPS connection. Default is "never," but there is a choice of "when using proxy (recommended w/ Tor)." What are some less

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymity & HTTPS Everywhere Observatory

2012-01-07 Thread andrew
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 11:11:13AM -0600, joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote 0.4K bytes in 10 lines about: : Have any recommendations from Tor Project been issued regarding the : new? options in HTTPS Everywhere to use their "SSL Observatory," : where certain info is transmitted to them? Nothing official y

[tor-talk] Anonymity & HTTPS Everywhere Observatory

2012-01-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Have any recommendations from Tor Project been issued regarding the new? options in HTTPS Everywhere to use their "SSL Observatory," where certain info is transmitted to them? Now there's one more item for TBB users to make a decision about that could compromise anonymity. ___

Re: [tor-talk] Tor exit+proxy

2012-01-07 Thread Greg Kalitnikoff
> > VPN through Tor is in my todo list, so i will appreciate any solutions > > you will make. > > I began work on it but now I am somewhat stuck. Here is what I've got so far. > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorVPN > Let's work on it together. Feel free edit my page, it's a wik

Re: [tor-talk] Tor exit+proxy

2012-01-07 Thread Greg Kalitnikoff
> Those open proxy lists... Well, my guess how they are created... Some people > are scanning the internet and if they find an open proxy they'll add it to > the list. But it does not mean the admin of the open proxy is aware that he > is hosting an open proxy. In many cases open proxy's are jus

Re: [tor-talk] Tor exit+proxy

2012-01-07 Thread Greg Kalitnikoff
> However, I do not think this feature is likely to come from one of the > current developers. In the mailing list they stated that Tor + extra proxy > isn't a good idea because it's bad for anonymity. That's why I deduct that > this feature will not come, unless maybe someone sponsors a patch.