Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread grarpamp
1) Has there been any discussions regarding the severity of the problem Seems not much tech issue here, the tor client treats .onion as special and funnels the whole thing to the dht. tor will get a new config bitmap that says 'set priority to resolve .onoin in dht or external first, or remain

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread grarpamp
Some people think the only valid / conceivable form of community / comms on the net are 'forums'. Well, they're free to set one up. And if it takes off, then have it integrated into tpo and use the tor name. And if facebook/twitter is their thing they can chime in there already today. No project

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:27:27AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: I've not read a tpo filing in years, so if not already, a yearly 'where does the money go' bar chart would be nice. Maybe you read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2012-financial-docs only 9 months ago?

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Users leaking dns / failing to redirect dns into tor is not a tor problem. I think that's a rather arrogant point of view. If it was not a Tor problem, .onion would not be needed in the first place. Tor developers do seem to

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
p...@crable.us: I just received a message from the Free Software Foundation advising me that Mozilla has climbed in bed with Adobe Corporation and will implement digital rights management, DRM, in FireFox. Until now they had not supported DRM. They claim to take this act to preserve market

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Wolf
On 5/19/2014 6:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: snip Due to the ubiquity of deployment of this scheme, it is likely that this identifier will soon be abused by all sorts of entities, likely starting with banking and government sectors, and quickly moving on to the advertising industry (why not play a

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:24:06AM +0200, pipat...@gmail.com wrote 1.5K bytes in 0 lines about: : I think that's a rather arrogant point of view. If it was not a Tor : problem, .onion would not be needed in the first place. Tor developers do : seem to work hard on making it difficult for a user

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/19/2014 06:24 AM, Anders Andersson wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Users leaking dns / failing to redirect dns into tor is not a tor problem. *** That is a common technologist / U.S. liberal /

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Patrick Schleizer
The discussion Tor needs a forum is old. I see two problems on that topic. 1) Tor has no competition (In the NSA's Tor Stinks presentation, they call Tor the king of high-secure [sic] low-latency Internet anonymity with no contenders for the throne in waiting [you find that quote on search

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/18/2014 9:54 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: And your intuition might be (mine was) that removing those small relays really harms diversity (and thus anonymity), but actually, Tor's load balancing and path selection means those relays are very rarely chosen anyway, so they don't contribute

[tor-talk] HTTP2 and TBB

2014-05-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Greetings, any plan to introduce support for HTTP2 in TBB given it's nice opportunistic encryption features? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Networking/http2 -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org -

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Akater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for yuour response, I'm very glad that the topic is not ignored. The discussion Tor needs a forum is old. I would never advocate for a forum! Forums are dreadful for a multitude of objective reasons. My messages are wordy enough, so I'll

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Akater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some people think the only valid / conceivable form of community / comms on the net are 'forums'. Well, they're free to set one up. No pro-forum argument, but one can see why someone would prefer forums to mailing lists. Some reasons can be

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/19/2014 1:26 PM, Akater wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some people think the only valid / conceivable form of community / comms on the net are 'forums'. Well, they're free to set one up. No pro-forum argument, but one can see why someone would prefer forums to