Re: [tor-talk] Flash, Linux and Tor

2012-10-16 Thread Raviji
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:12:53 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Raviji: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:38:34 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Outlaw: Hi! Let`s say main linux user A is cut off from Internet with iptables, user B starts Tor. If I run TorBrowser by user A,

[tor-talk] decrypt tor packets

2012-10-16 Thread esolve esolve
HI, I capture packets on the tor client using tcpdump and I want to decrypt the captured packets for analysis. I think there are two steps 1 obtain the session keys 2 use some tools to decrypt the packets Are there any ways, tools, methodology to decrypt the packets? thanks!

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:36:28 - fakef...@tormail.org wrote: Just want to use it... I don't plan to abuse something. I am willing to solve 1000 captcha or 1000 pictures with cats and dogs. Just give me the freaking account. Did google finally turn evil and wants to forbid any anonymous

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Mike Hearn
Although it's not an ideal situation, a few days ago a Google employee posted regarding access via Tor: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-October/025923.html Hi, I'm that employee. That post is specifically about login to existing accounts that were created outside of Tor.

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:43 +0200 Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: So I'm afraid we don't have a good solution for people who want to sign up to Google anonymously today beyond buying accounts and getting unlinkability that way, but as I said, that's against our terms of service and can

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:34:34 + Abel Luck a...@guardianproject.info wrote: Regarding deletion of the VM: I was under the impression secure deletion was not possible on modern SSDs. A simple method is to create a disk image (loopback) encrypted with a random key (held only in RAM) for

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread grarpamp
We have a policy of phone verifying every signup via anonymizing proxies. I've read through the help pages but can't find the answer... How many accounts can we have per phone number? ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Abel Luck
fakef...@tormail.org: I wanted to register for youtube. For comments, voting... Youtube wants a gmail account... Failed to make a gmail account. Gave them alternate mail, correct captcha... First thing after registration they want is sms or phone verification... I have no such thing as

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Mike Hearn
We blacklist SMS/voice forwarding services when we find them and re-suspend the accounts that used them. We haven't focused on it much so there are certainly services we haven't blacklisted yet. Generally, using these services is dangerous. If spammers have used the same numbers you get allocated

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:43 +0200 Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: We have a policy of phone verifying every signup via anonymizing proxies. If you signed up via Tor and didn't get asked to phone verify it means the list of exit nodes we're using isn't up to date, or there was a sync issue.

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Mike Hearn
I'm not sure what using a phone gets you for more verification. It's not a form of ID verification. We don't really care who owns the number (or indeed, who you are at all). It's just a throttle. It's harder to get 1000 phone numbers that don't cluster and automate them, than it is to buy 1000

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:36:35 +0200 Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: I don't see the distinction between pay somebody to create an account for you and buy an account. Both types of activity are likely to hit various tripwires that will result in forced phone verification of the account later

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread k e bera
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:36:35 +0200 Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: Right now I don't believe there is any safe way to use Google accounts via Tor if you aren't willing to provide a phone number, nor do I believe it's safe for any other large web service. Handling abuse whilst allowing

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:51:37 +, k e bera wrote: ... Why are anonymous signups assumed guilty of abuse before anything happens? How about limiting usage initially, Because per-account limits don't help when you can easily create as many accounts as you want. Andreas -- Totally

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Abel Luck
Mike Hearn: We blacklist SMS/voice forwarding services when we find them and re-suspend the accounts that used them. We haven't focused on it much so there are certainly services we haven't blacklisted yet. Generally, using these services is dangerous. If spammers have used the same numbers

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-16 Thread adrelanos
Abel Luck: adrelanos: Hi, Is it Amnesic or can it be made Amnesic? Or in other words Can you be sure, that after deleting (or wiping) the torified AppVM no activity can not be reconstructed with local disk forensics? Could the torified AppVM be securely wiped without any leftovers?

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Greg Norcie
Hi, I did a Tor usability study recently, though admittedly with participants who were English speakers (though a large chunk were not US citizens and did not speak English as a first language). We termed a failure to DL the TBB as download clarity, and found it was the one of the least cited

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS: Vidalia

2012-10-16 Thread adrelanos
Future Work Integrate Vidalia About Vidalia again... I was quickly reading my dev ticket again ( https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBOX/Dev#SHELLSCRIPTSVidaliabydefaultGraphicalGatewayWAITINGFORVIDALIA0.3.x ), why it's not yet integrated into Whonix. Summary: One drawback

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Outlaw
Andrew Lewman: Hmm, the large purple and orange 'Download tor' button on the index page was missed? No, but average user need to click on it, then choose language (btw the list is barely seen) and then click Download again. We have this already. When you click the big download button on the

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:55:02 -0400 Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote: 1.) Include small windows, apple, and tux logos on the download link on the main tor page... these could serve as a symbolic cue that it is a download link. We had these in the past and people didn't recognize their own OS

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-16 Thread adrelanos
Hi, system time is a sophisticated issue: Please read: - https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/Time_syncing/ - http://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Security/#whonixs-secure-and-distributed-time-synchronization-mechanism Suggestion: Time in torifed VMs (and perhaps TorVM) should differ from

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:12:43 +0200 (CEST) Outlaw out...@omail.pro wrote: I was talking about descriptions outside torproject.org for non-english-speaking people. Imagine blog post that describes benefits of Tor and a link to page that starts downloading right away (or after few seconds). And

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Juan Garofalo
Right now I don't believe there is any safe way to use Google accounts via Tor if you aren't willing to provide a phone number, nor do I believe it's safe for any other large web service. Handling abuse whilst allowing discardable identities is a fundamental research problem the Tor team need to

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: If you would like to see the effect our signup security efforts have had for yourself, visit buyaccs.com and compare the price of gmail.com vs hotmail.com accounts. SMS-verified GMail accounts: $100 per 1k. Non-SMS-verified

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3: (multiple) Tor Browser, without Tor/Vidalia; behind a transparent proxy or Tor Router

2012-10-16 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2012 08:59 PM, adrelanos wrote: Alternative startup scripts for the Tor Browser Bundle. For starting up Tor Browser without Tor and Vidalia. There's an easier way to go about it: https://github.com/virtadpt/Experiments/blob/master/tbb.sh

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3: (multiple) Tor Browser, without Tor/Vidalia; behind a transparent proxy or Tor Router

2012-10-16 Thread adrelanos
The Doctor: On 10/10/2012 08:59 PM, adrelanos wrote: Alternative startup scripts for the Tor Browser Bundle. For starting up Tor Browser without Tor and Vidalia. There's an easier way to go about it: https://github.com/virtadpt/Experiments/blob/master/tbb.sh It's nice, you could even

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: Handling abuse whilst allowing discardable identities is a fundamental research problem the Tor team need to solve if they don't want Tor to be restricted to a read only internet (to use Greg Maxwells phrasing). It's not

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3: (multiple) Tor Browser, without Tor/Vidalia; behind a transparent proxy or Tor Router

2012-10-16 Thread kman215
please take me off the mailing list or at least tell me how I can do that tykman...@aol.com -Original Message- From: The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net To: tor-talk tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 4:12 pm Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3:

Re: [tor-talk] Flash, Linux and Tor

2012-10-16 Thread adrelanos
Raviji: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:12:53 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Raviji: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:38:34 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Outlaw: Hi! Let`s say main linux user A is cut off from Internet with iptables, user B starts Tor. If I run TorBrowser by

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Greg Norcie
On 10/16/12 3:29 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:55:02 -0400 Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote: 1.) Include small windows, apple, and tux logos on the download link on the main tor page... these could serve as a symbolic cue that it is a download link. We had these in the

Re: [tor-talk] keep session for more than 10 minutes

2012-10-16 Thread somepony
I too am looking for an answer to this. Using the vanilla Tor browser your identity changes (based on IP) automatically. While that enforced anonymity is good in many cases, sometimes it makes a site impossible to use. Personally for my Tor use I would like it ONLY to switch exit nodes when

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread grarpamp
It's not Tor's problem to solve. Both common sense and actual research [1] suggest otherwise. Tor only needs to steadily increase its popularity and teach users not to link their real identities to online activities. Service providers will then need to adapt their business models or lose