[tor-talk] New TorStatus protocol, website, and Android app

2012-02-08 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, you probably all know the TorStatus website [0] that lets you search the current list of Tor relays. And maybe some of you noticed last year's HFOSS project to rewrite TorStatus in Python/Django [1]. Unfortunately, both projects suffer

Re: [tor-talk] How to use Tor Browser without TBB Bundle?

2012-02-08 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/8/2012 11:29 AM, The Doctor wrote: Don't know about a script. Normally, if you want to run more than one I think he means start-tor-browser (shell script on my box, probably a batch file on Windows). If you were using this in a script, I suppose the use of -no-remote would be the same

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Mr Dash Four
Currently, what happens is that sites just ban/blacklist the IPs, often automatically and forever. Yep! Scroogle Scroogle is currently having trouble scraping Google. Maybe Dash Fours problems with it are unrelated to Tor? Nope. I am well aware of this and it isn't an issue which

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09.02.2012 01:19, Mr Dash Four wrote: What I meant with my initial post though is that Scroogle started blocking tor exit nodes recently - about a week or so ago. One of the Scroogle guys posted on this list in the past about his efforts to allow legitimate Tor users. Probably a good idea

Re: [tor-talk] Basic Orbot question

2012-02-08 Thread Nathan Freitas
This is a tricky issue in that what you are seeing is just the Orbot background service loaded in memory, but without it actually doing any thing at all. Android will always start the service on boot, but by deselecting the check box for auto start, the Orbot service knows not to start the

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:13:44 +0100 Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I believe it's more important to make it easy for people to detect Tor and deal with it differently in the first place. The second step then is to provide useful alternatives to blocking. Perhaps someone wants to

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Andrew Lewman (and...@torproject.org): On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:13:44 +0100 Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I believe it's more important to make it easy for people to detect Tor and deal with it differently in the first place. The second step then is to provide useful

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:59:08PM -0800, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Andrew Lewman (and...@torproject.org): On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:13:44 +0100 Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I believe it's more important to make it easy for people to detect Tor and deal with it

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-08 Thread Javier Bassi
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Mr Dash Four mr.dash.f...@googlemail.com wrote: Nope. I am well aware of this and it isn't an issue which just popped yesterday or a week ago - it has been going on for months (scraping Google, that is). I am also aware that Scroogle has a limited (I think about