Re: [tor-talk] Unsafe for Tor?

2012-02-10 Thread krugar
On 02/10/2012 05:01 AM, Gramps wrote: Phillip wrote the following on 02/09/2012 06:33 PM: I've had the same problem when I routed my e-mail client to send everything through Tor (via SSL/TLS of course ;))... When I logged on to Gmail (and Facebook for that matter) via the web interface, it

Re: [tor-talk] Unsafe for Tor?

2012-02-10 Thread Phillip
On 02/10/2012 05:01 AM, Gramps wrote: Phillip wrote the following on 02/09/2012 06:33 PM: I've had the same problem when I routed my e-mail client to send everything through Tor (via SSL/TLS of course ;))... When I logged on to Gmail (and Facebook for that matter) via the web interface, it

Re: [tor-talk] Unsafe for Tor?

2012-02-10 Thread Phillip
Phillip wrote the following on 02/09/2012 06:33 PM: I've had the same problem when I routed my e-mail client to send everything through Tor (via SSL/TLS of course ;))... When I logged on to Gmail (and Facebook for that matter) via the web interface, it would challenge me to prove my

[tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi, In the last 48 hours a major campaign of filtering has started in Iran - it started slow and now appears to be that nearly all SSL/TLS traffic is blocked on a few major Iranian ISPs. Details are rather rough but we're working on some solutions - we've long had an ace up our sleeves for this

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:41:50PM +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Watch this graph for an idea of the censorship impact of directly connecting Tor users: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-usersstart=2011-11-12end=2012-05-10country=irevents=ondpi=72#direct-users Here's the

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Tichodroma
Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:42:01 +0400, Phillip wrote: ServerTransportPlugin obfs2 exec /usr/local/bin/obfsproxy --managed to the torrc file (through Vidalia), it gives me the error Unknown option ServerTransportPlugin. Failing. What does $ tor --version tell you? Tichodroma -- XMPP:

Re: [tor-talk] hidden service

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-10, Flaubert izivyose flaubertizivy...@gmail.com wrote: Hey I am trying to configure my tor for hidden services, but when I go to change my torrc file it only has this in it # If non-zero, try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise. AvoidDiskWrites 1 # Store

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Javier Bassi
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Here's the deal - we need people to run Tor bridges but a special kind of Tor bridge, one that does a kind of traffic camouflaging - we call it an obfuscated bridge. It's not easy to set up just yet because we were not

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Hannah
Hi! On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:41:50PM +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: [... obfuscated bridges ...] Does it currently make more sense to run bridges from machines with fixed IP addresses or with changing ones? And is the answer for this the same for obfuscated bridges? Earlier, I have understood

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:42:01PM +0400, Phillip wrote: Tried running through the instructions, have everything set up, and then I reach a stumbling block - when I try to add ServerTransportPlugin obfs2 exec /usr/local/bin/obfsproxy --managed to the torrc file (through Vidalia), it gives

[tor-talk] Ars Technica on Iran's latest strategy

2012-02-10 Thread Watson Ladd
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/iran-reportedly-blocking-encrypted-internet-traffic.ars I'm not sure what we can do in response to something like this. Obviously this is a pretty extreme move with high costs, so Iran doesn't have the ability to do anything else, and by making the

Re: [tor-talk] Ars Technica on Iran's latest strategy

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:41 + Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.torproject.org/4927 seems to have been effective. We just need to hunt down and fix some obfsproxy (server-side) crash bugs and get a good list of very-high-bandwidth obfsproxy bridges before we tell

Re: [tor-talk] Ars Technica on Iran's latest strategy

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Ransom
https://bugs.torproject.org/4927 seems to have been effective. We just need to hunt down and fix some obfsproxy (server-side) crash bugs and get a good list of very-high-bandwidth obfsproxy bridges before we tell everyone where to find a Tor+obfsproxy client bundle. On 2012-02-10, Watson Ladd

Re: [tor-talk] Ars Technica on Iran's latest strategy

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Lewis
So not as bad as first portrayed? How is intra country routing being affected? -Andrew Lewis Twitter: ThePunkbob On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:41 + Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread grarpamp
Sorry to give bad advice. Why is that bad? Because it is spammy, especially when your script breaks, your server acts up, you forget about it, something else changes, the world ends, etc, etc... ... that cronjob is still spamming away at other people after you're dead. It's better to provide

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-10 Thread Softail
I can't get this to work at all on Rackspace. I've tried CentOS 6.0 and Ubuntu 11.10. For CentOS I had to compile everything but that worked and Tor worked as a bridge without the obfsproxy. For Ubuntu I followed the direction for installing from the repositories and Tor worked as a bridge but