[tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread DeveloperChris
Hi all I am new to this list and to TOR in general Recently I have been thinking about creating a TOR exit node, but my discussions with other people now make me concerned. An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned by

[tor-talk] Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters

2013-10-25 Thread grarpamp
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/25/015254/online-retailers-cruising-tor-to-hunt-for-fraudsters -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Wolf
On 10/25/2013 3:31 AM, DeveloperChris wrote: Hi all I am new to this list and to TOR in general Welcome! An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned by services such as skype and ebay. and apparently the machine he used was

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread DeveloperChris
Thanks Michael Yes he was running it from home. Ok so that's a bad idea, I can certainly see why. I thought the best way to help Tor (nod to Eugen) was to become an exit node. Does it aid the Tor project to have more relays, or is there enough of them? How does the Tor project increase the

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-25 Thread Philipp Winter
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:21:19PM -0700, Arlo Breault wrote: We're considering launching a new check, https://check2.torproject.org/ It'd be appreciated if you could take a moment to look for false negatives, and let us know. I just iterated over all active exit relays and used Python's

[tor-talk] TOR network topology

2013-10-25 Thread Mads Tinggaard Pedersen
Hi all, I am a student writing my master's thesis. I am, among other things, analyzing the degree of anonymity in a network and would like to investigate real life examples of TOR networks. However, all I could find is https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html which can tell me about the

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 10/25/2013 06:40 AM, DeveloperChris wrote: I thought the best way to help Tor (nod to Eugen) was to become an exit node. Most people who run an exit node pay a hosting provider to run the exit off of their server. Check out TorServers for an overview of which companies and collectives

Re: [tor-talk] TOR network topology

2013-10-25 Thread Philipp Winter
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:17:57PM +, Mads Tinggaard Pedersen wrote: I am not concerned about the practical stuff, such as IP addresses, version numbers, etc. Only what nodes in the network graph is connected to one another. This paper might interest you:

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread Lunar
DeveloperChris: Does it aid the Tor project to have more relays, or is there enough of them? There will never be enough. See “Fix 4: We need to make the network bigger” in Roger's last blog post about the current issues with guards:

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-25 Thread Lunar
Philipp Winter: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:21:19PM -0700, Arlo Breault wrote: We're considering launching a new check, https://check2.torproject.org/ It'd be appreciated if you could take a moment to look for false negatives, and let us know. I just iterated over all active exit

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-25 Thread Philipp Winter
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:35PM +0200, Lunar wrote: Philipp Winter: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:21:19PM -0700, Arlo Breault wrote: We're considering launching a new check, https://check2.torproject.org/ It'd be appreciated if you could take a moment to look for false

Re: [tor-talk] TOR network topology

2013-10-25 Thread Martin Kepplinger
Mads Tinggaard Pedersen: Hi all, I am a student writing my master's thesis. I am, among other things, analyzing the degree of anonymity in a network and would like to investigate real life examples of TOR networks. However, all I could find is https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-25 Thread grarpamp
We're considering launching a new check, It'd be appreciated if you could take a moment to look for false negatives, and let us know. I found 15 relays where check2 told me that I'm not using Tor. Very good idea! :) Did you also run the same test against

Re: [tor-talk] TOR network topology

2013-10-25 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:17:57 + Mads Tinggaard Pedersen m...@itu.dk wrote: shape of the network, perhaps based by country? what nodes in the network graph is connected to one another. There is no real shape or topology or any fixed node-to-node connections to speak of, really. Each client

[tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Tim Wilson
Is there a tor version available for the iphone 5? Thank you -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 06:01:51PM +1030, DeveloperChris wrote: An acquittance of mine created a tor exit node, I know little detail more than that other than he was banned by services such as skype and ebay. and apparently the machine he used was hacked. Now I know he is very security

Re: [tor-talk] TOR network topology

2013-10-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:17:57PM +, Mads Tinggaard Pedersen wrote: I am a student writing my master's thesis. I am, among other things, analyzing the degree of anonymity in a network and would like to investigate real life examples of TOR networks. However, all I could find is

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Sherief Alaa
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Tim Wilson twilson4...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a tor version available for the iphone 5? Thank you No, but the guardian project is looking for a the developer to work on one. -- Sherief Alaa pgp 0x8623B882 -- tor-talk mailing list -

[tor-talk] tor browser bundle uninstalled

2013-10-25 Thread e-letter
Readers, For some unknown reason, after installing an extension, the firefox browser failed to start with the tor network activated. The error log stated something about a port process being open. Anyway, the tor browser directory was 250 mb, considered excessive and therefore removed. As

Re: [tor-talk] tor browser bundle uninstalled

2013-10-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:54:15PM +0100, e-letter wrote: Readers, For some unknown reason, after installing an extension, the firefox browser failed to start with the tor network activated. The error log stated something about a port process being open. Totally depends what extension you

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Nathan Freitas
Sherief Alaa sheriefala...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Tim Wilson twilson4...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a tor version available for the iphone 5? Thank you No, but the guardian project is looking for a the developer to work on one. See the Onion Browser open-source

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:24:27PM -0400, Nathan Freitas wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Tim Wilson twilson4...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a tor version available for the iphone 5? Thank you See the Onion Browser open-source project and iOS app in iTunes. The best option at the

Re: [tor-talk] tor browser bundle uninstalled

2013-10-25 Thread Sherief Alaa
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:54 PM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: Readers, For some unknown reason, after installing an extension, the firefox browser failed to start with the tor network activated. The error log stated something about a port process being open. Anyway, the tor browser

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread coderman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: ... Speaking of Onion Browser, it looks like it went open source a year or so back when we weren't looking... Is it worth building on? also http://was.fm/ios:tor which required jailbreak / Cydia and provide a Tor toggle

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread coderman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... i much prefer this approach if anyone has tried the Apple Configurator system to enforce a global proxy setting i'd love to hear about it. this would be a further improvement on the configuration discussed above, and

Re: [tor-talk] New to list and questions about exit nodes

2013-10-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:25:45AM +1030, DeveloperChris wrote: I appreciate the links. I am trying to come up to speed in double quick time. I have some pretty big plans where I hope to convince lots of people too join Tor. but I cannot in all good conscience, if it opens them up to any form

Re: [tor-talk] Shout out to Google from Tor users everywhere

2013-10-25 Thread David Huerta
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Anonymous anonymou...@privatdemail.netwrote: 22.10.2013 14:07, mick wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:56:03 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: Yeah, whatever Google, you were cool once, but now, soo lame. They stopped being cool a long time

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Nathan Freitas
On 10/25/2013 06:28 PM, coderman wrote: if anyone has tried the Apple Configurator system to enforce a global proxy setting i'd love to hear about it. this would be a further improvement on the configuration discussed above, and apply to all networks not just the WiFi profiles with a proxy

Re: [tor-talk] tor available for the iphone 5?

2013-10-25 Thread Nathan Freitas
On 10/25/2013 05:38 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: Nathan, have you done anything to draw the Onion Browser developer/development into our broader community? Yes, a bit. Mike Tigas is actually a very interesting guy. He was just a Knight Mozilla News Fellow for 2013, and some of the GP team has

Re: [tor-talk] Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters

2013-10-25 Thread andrew
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:20:06AM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 0.3K bytes in 0 lines about: : http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/25/015254/online-retailers-cruising-tor-to-hunt-for-fraudsters Apparently slashdot bans many of the tor exit relays now. I tried around 20 of them and kept

[tor-talk] x.509 for hidden services

2013-10-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
==Background== (you can skip to the Tor section if you don't care) The Bitcoin universe is in the process of creating a specification for digital invoices called the bitcoin payment protocol. (More info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300809.msg3225143#msg3225143) The payment protocol