Re: [tor-talk] OFTC and Tor

Spencer wrote: Patrick Schleizer: What are your experiences with OFTC and Tor blocking recently? The exchange is from early October after a few months of the same - but only through browsers; clients seem to work fine. OFTC has been consistently blocking exits and limiting the number of

[tor-talk] OFTC semi-permanent Tor Blocking

The OFTC servers have been blocking Tor users for weeks and the #tor is no longer a viable support channel for anonymous users. We are looking for other Tor friendly options at the moment and it would be great if you consider moving your channels too. Options we are considering for Whonix are

[tor-talk] OFTC and Tor

Hi, Patrick Schleizer: What are your experiences with OFTC and Tor blocking recently? See: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2016-January/009980.html The exchange is from early October after a few months of the same - but only through browsers; clients seem to work fine.

Re: [tor-talk] OFTC semi-permanent Tor Blocking

Is there a reason why hackint should not be considered? On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 10:14:13PM +, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: > The OFTC servers have been blocking Tor users for weeks and the #tor is no > longer a viable support channel for anonymous users. We are looking for > other Tor

[tor-talk] On further minimizing harassment for Tor Exit Nodes

Hi, I: No it's not! Have a look for VPSs. There are many and they are very easy to get over the 'net: paying and setting-up. Thanks for this and the link :) Wordlife, Spencer -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

[tor-talk] Metrics shows drop of users

Metrics portal shows a drop of around half million direct connecting users: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html Does someone has a good explanation what happened? The top 5 countries show the same drop. Is this another botnet that got knocked out? torland -- tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

Great stuff! Do you plan on bringing back your Onion site? Will there be a eepsite address for ahmia? -- 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] On further minimizing harassment for Tor Exit Nodes

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:45:15PM +0200, s7r wrote: > Altering Tor's path selection is something we shouldn't play with > until we have concrete papers that suggest it is wrong. Right. > Anyway, your suggestion might actually happen automatically along with > a more important fix, which is AS

[tor-talk] Fwd: Orbot v15.1.0 Alpha 1

- Original message - From: Nathan of Guardian To: guardian-...@lists.mayfirst.org Subject: Orbot v15.1.0 Alpha 1 Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:04:44 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Happy 2016... and here's an update for Orbot to test

Re: [tor-talk] Metrics shows drop of users

tor-ad...@torland.me: > Metrics portal shows a drop of around half million direct connecting users: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html > > Does someone has a good explanation what happened? The top 5 countries show > the same drop. Is this another botnet that got

Re: [tor-talk] Why most democratic contries are most active users of TOR... except Russia of course

Hi, On January 2, 2016 at 10:49 PM Justin wrote: > I really doubt that 1.5 million bots are using Tor everyday by the way. The Mevade.A botnet had 4 million bots, which were using Tor in summer 2013. Some links:

[tor-talk] torbirdy random mailbox check time

This is a feature request for the torbirdy. It would be nice if torbirdy took control of interval of email box checking and make it random. very true for that user with many inboxes, so he can avoid mixing into the same tor nodes. Attacher can match time stamp too! Thanks!! -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Why most democratic contries ­are most active users ofTOR... except Russia of course (k­arste...@mailbox.org)

While Tor may be used for malicious purposes that's an academic issue.  Many people misuse the law to do illegal activities (crooked cops) does that mean we should abandon all law? -- Sent from Mail.Ru app for Android Sunday, 03 January 2016, 11:00pm +11:00 from

Re: [tor-talk] Why most democratic contries are most active users of TOR... except Russia of course

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:00:21AM +0100, karste...@mailbox.org wrote: > Hi, > > On January 2, 2016 at 10:49 PM Justin wrote: > > I really doubt that 1.5 million bots are using Tor everyday by the way. > > The Mevade.A botnet had 4 million bots, which were using Tor in summer > 2013. Some links:

Re: [tor-talk] On further minimizing harassment for Tor Exit Nodes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Altering Tor's path selection is something we shouldn't play with until we have concrete papers that suggest it is wrong. As Moritz said, having a GeoIP database to make path selection changes is probably a terrible idea, due that such databases are

Re: [tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Nurmi, Juha wrote: > I released refactored new version of Ahmia search engine :) > > It's not finished yet but the main parts are working. Be patient, it's far > from perfect. It has some performance issues etc. Seems to work well, except for

Re: [tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

On 1/3/16 6:52 PM, Nurmi, Juha wrote: > Hi, > > I released refactored new version of Ahmia search engine :) > > It's not finished yet but the main parts are working. Be patient, it's far > from perfect. It has some performance issues etc. > > Deeper than ever: you can also search i2p network

[tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

Hi, I released refactored new version of Ahmia search engine :) It's not finished yet but the main parts are working. Be patient, it's far from perfect. It has some performance issues etc. Deeper than ever: you can also search i2p network https://ahmia.fi/i2p/ Happy new year 2016! -Juha --

Re: [tor-talk] OFTC and Tor

What are your experiences with OFTC and Tor blocking recently? Cheers, Patrick -- 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

[tor-talk] On further minimizing harassment for Tor Exit Nodes

Hi, Moritz Bartl: How so? I take an operational approach and prefer to have physical access; should've mentioned that up front :( Well, it's not as clean and simple as it sounds like Seems like something any operator can, or should, quickly be able to do. Wordlife, Spencer --

Re: [tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

On Sunday 03 January 2016 18:52:29 Nurmi, Juha wrote: > Hi, > > I released refactored new version of Ahmia search engine :) > Thanks. It seems that Ahmia does not like adding hidden services with https URLs. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change