[tor-talk] New to this list

2015-01-23 Thread Kevin
Hello. I am a programmer and computer security specialist, to name a few things. I am on this list because I have learned of onion botnets and I felt that this would be a good place to research ways to combat them. I hope to gather some meaningful info as well as engage in some tor talk!

Re: [tor-talk] Blockchain down.

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Norcie
Is that common behavior - blocking Tor users from the normal site if they have a .onion? Seems like not the most user friendly design decison. -- Greg Norcie (gnor...@indiana.edu) PhD Student, Security Informatics Indiana University On 1/22/15 11:34 AM, blo...@openmailbox.org wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] New to this list

2015-01-23 Thread Kevin
On 1/23/2015 1:34 PM, Philipp Winter wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:17:30PM -0500, Kevin wrote: Hello. I am a programmer and computer security specialist, to name a few things. I am on this list because I have learned of onion botnets and I felt that this would be a good place to research

Re: [tor-talk] Blockchain down.

2015-01-23 Thread Kristov Atlas
Working fine for me now. I wonder if you tried to access during Blockchain's announced downtime the other day. On Jan 23, 2015 1:36 PM, Michael O Holstein michael.holst...@csuohio.edu wrote: That quota exceeded message just sounds like somebody went over the limit on their vhost someplace.

Re: [tor-talk] Did the CMU team out Silk Road 2 to the FBI?

2015-01-23 Thread Mirimir
On 01/23/2015 02:12 PM, Greg Norcie wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't CERT contract out to federal agencies sometimes? -- Greg Norcie (gnor...@indiana.edu) PhD Student, Security Informatics Indiana University I've read that, but haven't researched the question. But if the CMU

[tor-talk] Vidalia problem

2015-01-23 Thread Grant Mills
I have a little problem...i was using like 2 months ago vidalia to download with utorrent...but one day it stopped working.Everytime i use torrent with vidalia working i get the proxy connect error offline.Someone know if it is a common issue?Thanks --

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia problem

2015-01-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Grant Mills wrote: I have a little problem...i was using like 2 months ago vidalia to download with utorrent...but one day it stopped working.Everytime i use torrent with vidalia working i get the proxy connect error offline.Someone know if it is a common

Re: [tor-talk] Did the CMU team out Silk Road 2 to the FBI?

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Norcie
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't CERT contract out to federal agencies sometimes? -- Greg Norcie (gnor...@indiana.edu) PhD Student, Security Informatics Indiana University On 1/21/15 5:59 PM, Mirimir wrote: OK, so this is very interesting: | The court documents refer to a source that

Re: [tor-talk] New to this list

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Norcie
If you're interested in free literature on anonymity, AnonBib is a great resource: http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ I suggest reading some of the founational papers. Considering your technical background Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router is a good place to start. It has a link on to a

Re: [tor-talk] Did the CMU team out Silk Road 2 to the FBI?

2015-01-23 Thread Lee
On 1/23/15, Greg Norcie gnor...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't CERT contract out to federal agencies sometimes? Maybe CERT isn't technically a federal agency, but it seems pretty darn close. http://cert.org/about/ The CERT Division works closely with the Department of

Re: [tor-talk] New to this list

2015-01-23 Thread Kevin
On 1/23/2015 4:10 PM, Greg Norcie wrote: If you're interested in free literature on anonymity, AnonBib is a great resource: http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ I suggest reading some of the founational papers. Considering your technical background Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router is a

Re: [tor-talk] Blockchain down.

2015-01-23 Thread Öyvind Saether
https://blockchainbdgpzk.onion/wallet has been down since yesterday. It just says quota exceeded. Very annoying especially since you cannot use the non .onion site if you are using Tor! That is actually good news[1] because you should not be using websites to store your BTC and there are

[tor-talk] Problems with TBB in Qubes and whonix in Qubes

2015-01-23 Thread georgeorwellhardwired
Dear tor talk mail list. I have a problem with trying to install TBB in Qubes, I used Micahf Lee's guide: https://micahflee.com/2014/05/using-tor-browser-launcher-in-qubes/ And almost everything worked fine, got TBB build in VM. But when I use the sudo yum install

[tor-talk] Deep Web Business Models

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
I'm taking this as a good sign that real businesspeople are starting to get interested in deep web marketplaces, where customer data isn't the primary product. Here's one investor's thoughts, http://joel.mn/post/108657860988/deep-web-marketplaces -- Andrew +1-781-948-1982

Re: [tor-talk] Deep Web Business Models

2015-01-23 Thread Ben Tasker
Interesting reading, although I couldn't help but facepalm when seeing someone involved in investment write the following Perhaps the answer is to have the best product and user experience Well... yes. One thing that he observes, and I definitely agree with, is that the markets have shown that