Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 22:24, Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? Because it's the default search engine in Firefox The reason Google is the default search engine in Firefox is that Firefox gets money from Google

[tor-talk] [Freedombox-discuss] Important update to PlugServer Setup Scripts

2012-01-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com - From: Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:24:28 -0600 To: freedombox-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Important update to PlugServer Setup Scripts User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Krbusek Christian
Ehlo, Am 2012-01-11 13:34, schrieb Klaus Layer: I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. same email received today at

[tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Klaus Layer
Hi all, I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. Best regards, Klaus - original message --- Dear

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread morphium
Hi! 2012/1/11 Klaus Layer klaus.la...@gmx.de: Hi all, I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. They contacted me

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Gijs
received the same letter, I guess the reason for not contacting this list is that the reach is bigger if directly contacting tor relay operators. Anybody know what new attack he is speaking of ? I'm a bit doubtfull of giving sys info, even though the info seems harmless with the recently new

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Mirko
Maxim Kammerer schrieb am 11.01.2012 10:22:58 However, by keeping that setting you are compromising the privacy of the users, since, for instance, Google tracks clicks on the returned results (it uses redirecting links). DuckDuckGo does that as well. As far as I am able to tell, ixquick

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi, The reason you are receiving this message is that, to improve our study, we require some extra information about the Relay(s) you are running that, unfortunately, is not publicly available. I'm curious how such extra information will improve their study, if/why knowing such private

[tor-talk] reply-to: list surprising on a privacy-centric list

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Troxel
I just sent a private reply to a posting here. I was surprised that reply began to compose a message to the list instead of to the individual sender as it should have, but did notice in time. The problem of course is the Reply-To: header that points to the list. I know there are pro and anti

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread 5...@gmx.de
Sebastian Hahn schrieb am 10.01.2012 21:24:55 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? Because it's the default search engine in Firefox 2. Does TOR get money from Google a) for using Google as the default search engine? No. b) in general? Google

[tor-talk] Error binding network socket: Address already in use

2012-01-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, I see a lot of scary warnings in the Tor logs on our high bandwidth nodes (400 Mbps): Error binding network socket: Address already in use. All servers are configured equally, running multiple Tor processes. I also apply sysctl tweaks, see http://www.torservers.net/misc/config/sysctl.conf I

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Griffin
I set the default search engine to DuckDuckGo when not using the browser bundle, and before that Yahoo was my default. DuckDuckGo seems to be a bit faster than Yahoo, but both work better than Google's almost constant search failure. Having a hidden service as the default search might improve

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/10/2012 2:02 PM, Curious Kid wrote: Insinuating that Tor is adware and that the Tor Project is being compensated for delivering user data is outrageous. There's been a recent increase in FUD (because of the SOPA vote?), but this is pretty over the top. 1st, there's no such thing as a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

2012-01-11 Thread Kyle Williams
1) You didn't e-mail me or coderman directly and 2) I don't always stay on top of the Tor mailing list so 3) Here's your open source solution the Tor project paid us for. http://janusvm.com/tor_vm/ For whatever reason, ask Roger or someone else, Tor VM isn't hosted on the torproject.org site

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Survey

2012-01-11 Thread Andy Isaacson
Hi Marco, Please discuss the DoS in public forums, I'm not interested in helping you hide details of your supposed attack. The norms for open source development may conflict with your expectations of scientific papers, but that's your problem not ours. -andy On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:47:37AM

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Survey

2012-01-11 Thread Pascal
The posted script uses the openssl speed command to evaluate the node's encryption performance. This command iterates through every algorithm OpenSSL supports, most of which Tor doesn't use. There is also a bug in OpenSSL where the speed command alone does not utilize encryption