[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — September 25th, 2013

2013-09-25 Thread dope457
Tor Weekly News September 25th, 2013 Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter

[tor-talk] A note about the Stack Exchange private beta

2013-09-25 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
Hi everyone, Last week, the proposed Tor page on Stack Exchange [1] reached 100% commitment. Committed users will soon be invited to the private beta. I wanted to clarify a few things regarding this private beta (big thanks to the Stack Exchange team for replying to my email so quickly!): 1. The

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread Al Billings
Good luck with that. Having an OS that isn't missing years and years of security updates isn't being paranoid or being engaged in social control by a vendor. It isn't the bleeding edge either. It is simply being secure. If your operating system isn't getting regular security updates, you're

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread mick
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:14:06 -0700 Al Billings alb...@openbuddha.com allegedly wrote: You are aware of the concept of drive by exploits, I hope? You can simply browse the web on an insecure system and with no obvious interaction, you can be infected with malware and owned. Welcome to the

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread David Green
Yes of course, but I am unaware of any drive-by exploits on any 'nix computer, let alone one's with reasonable firewalls. :) I do not sit about with my finger where the sun does not shine, but there is easily a point reached where enough is enough (re. personal security). My systems are, from

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread David Green
Mick; sorry, you are right. :) I am just seeking where I can, programatically, help in the causes of tor AND, as it happens, a not up to date OS. On 25 September 2013 14:12, mick m...@rlogin.net wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:14:06 -0700 Al Billings alb...@openbuddha.com allegedly wrote:

[tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-25 Thread Robert K
Does the tor project properly work on a Ubuntu operating system. I watched the video below and it looks like it would work well, but I figure I should ask here first anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1z2K1Izur4 I have a ASUS 1015E-DS03 with Ubuntu if it matters. -- tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-25 Thread Nathan Suchy
Yes. You can download the Tor browser bundle which works fine on all major linux distributions... Sent from my Android so do not expect a fast, long, or perfect response... On Sep 25, 2013 4:31 PM, Robert K kjtre...@rocketmail.com wrote: Does the tor project properly work on a Ubuntu operating

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:32:32PM -0400, Nathan Suchy wrote: Yes. You can download the Tor browser bundle which works fine on all major linux distributions... Right. https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads On Sep 25, 2013 4:31 PM, Robert K kjtre...@rocketmail.com

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread David Green
Great Krishna, a much more complete context for MacPorts and (the) Darwin(s). I am slowing working on an 'old' netbook with Linux; it could be interesting to use it to further explore Open/PureDarwin. In the short term I would be interested in discussing / researching how to configure tor to

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-25 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 25 Sep 2013, at 23:03, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Sep 25, 2013 4:31 PM, Robert K kjtre...@rocketmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1z2K1Izur4 But be careful following the instructions in the youtube video. It looks like they made some deb somewhere and stuck

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:17:20PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: This is true, but people will use what they can if they have difficulties. Anything that helps people installed TBB must be useful, right? No? As one example, if you're an activist in country X you maybe shouldn't get TBB