[tor-talk] node depictions in network map

2012-03-02 Thread eliaz
I've recently started seeing pairs of in-country nodes in the network map. I recall reading that that for security reasons only one node in each country would be indicated, except when a circuit (node1 country A) - (country B) - (node 2 country A) was being depicted. Do the depictions of wholly

[tor-talk] How tor skip firewall ?

2012-03-02 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have implemented some iptables rule to block some sites based on time module. The settings are working perfectly fine. But when tested through tor browser, none are working. The iptables rules are applied on the lan card explicitly to be sure that the rules are applied on ethernet.

Re: [tor-talk] How tor skip firewall ?

2012-03-02 Thread georg
Hello, Then why the rules are not honored ? Are those packets encrypted ? You're right. The connection is encrypted. For some details and nice graphics, have a look at [1]. [1] https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#whyweneedtor ___

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-02 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Moritz Bartl wrote (02 Mar 2012 00:27:58 GMT) : The second reason to avoid Bittorrent over Tor is that there is no audited torrent client. There is none because of the first reason. In case someone wants to do this audit, they should get in touch with Jacob Appelbaum who offered Tails

Re: [tor-talk] How tor skip firewall ?

2012-03-02 Thread J. Bakshi
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:57:44 +0100 ge...@riseup.net wrote: Hello, Then why the rules are not honored ? Are those packets encrypted ? You're right. The connection is encrypted. For some details and nice graphics, have a look at [1]. [1]

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 02.03.2012 02:39, proper proper wrote: I don't see a difference between regular downloads and operating system updates. (I am speaking of Debian here, I don't know how other operating system or distributions handle package installation and updates.) Are regular downloads of 'several

Re: [tor-talk] How tor skip firewall ?

2012-03-02 Thread Justin Aplin
On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:26 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have implemented some iptables rule to block some sites based on time module. The settings are working perfectly fine. But when tested through tor browser, none are working. The iptables rules are applied on the lan card

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-02 Thread Hggiu Uizzu
rransom said: I'm more worried about the risks to user anonymity. It sucks to be the user reading about some sensitive subject when your apt cron job decides to poke every package source you install from. “Oh, that guy who keeps reading about Foozer's Disease must be in the Antarctica/McMurdo

Re: [tor-talk] LeaseWeb disconnects Tor exit node for forum spam

2012-03-02 Thread Alex de Joode
Eric (and the rest of the list), If you have a problem with LeaseWeb Tor mail me at a.dejo...@leaseweb.com, so I can recity any problems. If you can mail me the ticket numer on the above address I'll fix it. Cheers, Alex de Joode On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:28:56PM +, Beyond Hosting wrote:

[tor-talk] number of relays by country?

2012-03-02 Thread eliaz
Partly as a way of learning more about my normal bridge works I'm thinking of asking a friend of mine in a far country to set up a tor client. There are no relays in his country as far as I can tell from the Network Map listing, since I can't arrange the listing completely alphabetically by

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-02 Thread proper
snip But apt uses GPG (run with (necessarily) root privileges) to verify the files it downloads. Sucks to be a Debian user when someone finds another code-exec bug in GPG's parsing code. Indeed. Encrypted updates would be handy. I support http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26541/. Or