[tor-talk] Expired key for deb.torproject.org?

2020-11-26 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
I am using the Debian Tor repo on quite a few Debian machines and since a few days now, none of these machines are able to use the repo. "apt update" gives me: Err:6 tor+http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org buster InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG

[tor-talk] Tor Browser for advanced users on Android

2020-10-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
I get that Tor Browser by default is supposed to be friendly for the average user and it does this on Android and on a PC with the default settings quite well. However, people who know what they're doing can really tweak TBB on a desktop to their specific needs, like using a system-wide Core

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Bridge and Logs Settings in TBB

2020-07-26 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:00:38AM +0200, Troy Airheart wrote: > Getting to the Logs Settings in TBB is also annoying. I have to click about > 4 times and scroll down to get to the logs button results. I would > appreciate it of you could make it an icon which can be added to the Menu > Bar.

Re: [tor-talk] YouTube Censored Tor

2019-11-10 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 07:50:45AM +, Toptin wrote: > I've been having the same issue, but with a shorter message. Anyway, in > my case I simply close/start TBB. It worked for me because I work with > different FF profiles, hence I do not lose my work. Do yourself a favor and just press Ctrl

Re: [tor-talk] How to configure Tor for use a built-in bridge?

2019-11-06 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 01:10:39PM +, Jason Long wrote: > Hello,I installed Tor on Debian 10.1 x86_64 and I want to configure > "/etc/tor/torrc" for use built-in bridge obfs4.An idea? Run (as root): # apt install obfs4proxy Add the following lines to torrc: UseBridges 1

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Secure laptop advice

2019-03-24 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
I am a big fan of Lenovo (and formerly IBM) ThinkPads. You can buy them online refurbished extremely cheap. I personally have a Lenovo X200 with Libreboot installed. Having a FOSS and controllable BIOS replacement can really be quite a security benefit. For example, with Libreboot it's

Re: [tor-talk] Issue accessing Onion v3 Services#

2019-01-06 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 05:22:56AM +0100, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > I'm using the Tor Browser Bundle (v 8.0.4) on macOS to access the Tor > Network. I am able to access Onion v2 Services without an issue. I am unable > to access v3 Services at all. If it helps I requested bridges with the built

Re: [tor-talk] Why do you use Tor?

2018-12-13 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
I use Tor for almost all of my web browsing. There's pretty much no reason not to use Tor ever. If there's a website which I can't access via Tor, then I probably shouldn't be using that website anyways as they are interested in violating my privacy. So even just my everyday web searching, news

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser evolution mysteries

2018-11-10 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 01:22:00PM +, anan wrote: > How come I have now the same IP address on every tab? Circuit isolation is not per tab, but per site. For example, open two tabs, one with https://ipchicken.com/ and one with https://wtfismyip.com/. The circuits should differ. > How come

Re: [tor-talk] Does Facebook .onion work?

2018-10-15 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:35:12PM -, bobby...@danwin1210.me wrote: > Has anyone successfully created an account using the .onion address? I have succesfully created fake accounts using the .onion address before, however the last time was already a few months ago. Maybe they changed

Re: [tor-talk] privacy concerns with new CAPTCHA-method for obfs4 bridges

2018-10-04 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 06:23:32AM +, ithor wrote: > Ok, correct me if I'm wrong. Is this what happens in a meek request : > 1. unencrypted http request with the hostname I want to connect to in > cleartext. > 2. encrypted https connection to the hostname. > 3. encrypted (http?) relay

Re: [tor-talk] privacy concerns with new CAPTCHA-method for obfs4 bridges

2018-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:25:52PM +, ithor wrote: > So a meek request is sent in clear-text. What exact information is given ? > The exact ip address of the Azure server, its geolocation ? The IP address of the Azure server you're connecting to. In the case of meek-azure the firewall would

Re: [tor-talk] privacy concerns with new CAPTCHA-method for obfs4 bridges

2018-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 08:30:53AM -0400, James Bunnell wrote: > I'm a little curious why some people don't take G Suite into consideration :) Google clearly doesn't like seeing it's services used for censorship circumvention.

Re: [tor-talk] privacy concerns with new CAPTCHA-method for obfs4 bridges

2018-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 08:38:52AM +, ithor wrote: > ever since TBB 8, there's the new moat way to obtain private obfs4 bridges > through a CAPTCHA. In the following webpage it's stated meek is used in > order to communicate with the Tor bridges database. Now, my question is : > which ones

Re: [tor-talk] Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention - Meek?

2018-05-02 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:44:40PM +0200, Marco Gruß wrote: > according to https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/, > Amazon has explicitly denied usage of one of their domains for > "domain fronting". > > As far as I understand it, establishing a TLS connection to > host A, but

Re: [tor-talk] Google Goes Full Retard Against Tor

2017-11-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:16:18PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > And just now google threw up a captcha for Youtube. When using YouTube through Tor, I usually don't get a captcha, but occasionally I do. I'm using it right now as well. I can see no difference. It has always been like this. Maybe the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in Russia, blocked from Nov 1st?

2017-10-16 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:16:45PM +0300, xxx wrote: > Seems that TOR will be blocked from Nov 1st in Russia. Any info on this? In > such a case, will it be possible to use Tor through "bridges"? It is likely that at the very least meek would work in such a scenario. obfs4 bridges probably work

Re: [tor-talk] Document Leak: German Agency BND cooperates with NSA and GCHQ to attack Tor

2017-09-20 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Could you please quote the part of the article or source documents that > lead you to the conclusion that "[a]ll three agencies run their own > exit nodes"? > Unless I missed it, however, there's no claim that the BND itself > is

[tor-talk] Document Leak: German Agency BND cooperates with NSA and GCHQ to attack Tor

2017-09-14 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-das-anonymisierungs-netzwerk-tor-angegriffen-und-warnt-vor-dessen-nutzung/ (German link) Netzpolitik.org (a german news blog focused on politics surrounding the digital world) today released a leak of internal emails and documents of the

Re: [tor-talk] How can I re-enable some of Tor browser's features? (like saved form & password entries)

2017-06-20 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:31:29AM +, Mark Reese wrote: > 2) is there a way to get tor browser to save form history & passwords the way > firefox does? Go to about:preferences#privacy Do the following settings: Tor Browser will: Use custom settings for history Uncheck "Always use private

Re: [tor-talk] should minimizing Tor Browser reset screen size?

2017-06-03 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 05:58:40PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > In Linux, it's very easy to grab TBB's drag screen bar when reaching for > scroll bar. I've done it several times now. > If you only move it a few px, it's hard to tell if it changed, unless go to > a browser check site. > > Appears

Re: [tor-talk] TOR problems - seriously PLEASE HELP ME!

2017-04-24 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
By the way: Please don't cross-post across multiple mailing lists. Because I didn't notice it, you just made me spam these lists when replying to you. Sending to tor-talk would have been enough. -- 4096R/1224DBD299A4F5F3 47BC 7DE8 3D46 2E8B ED18 AA86 1224 DBD2 99A4 F5F3 signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] TOR problems - seriously PLEASE HELP ME!

2017-04-24 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:16:23PM +0200, unpublished wrote: > 1. Many web pages display information that I do not support "TOR > connections"? Not sure, what you mean here. Perhaps THEY don't support (i.e. block) connections from Tor users, because they are afraid of spam or other stupid

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Linux_don't extract to root

2017-04-14 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Look, if you have malicous software running on the system with normal user priviliges, you are in big trouble anyway. There's so many things that malicous software could do even if TBB was installed at a non-writable location. Just as a simple example, malware could just change the location in

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Linux_don't extract to root

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:18:38PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > I'm not "doing" anything with /home permissions - it's Linux defaults. > AFAIK, once a user logs into their 'nix acct, anything that writes to (most) > files in /home can do so - w/o any prompting. I think the confusion comes from the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Linux_don't extract to root

2017-04-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:11:48PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > What is the reason(s) the TBB instructions say do not install (extract) TBB > to root? > Is it so the TBB files will be in a location where the user has write > permissions, so that TBB updates can automatically D/L and install? Yes,

Re: [tor-talk] A Pluggable Transport based on i2p?

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:43:10PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Jonathan responded with: > > You want to hide the fact that you are using an anonymization network > > by using an anonymization network. This idea seems pretty stupid to me. > > But I think that's taking a very narrow view of

Re: [tor-talk] A Pluggable Transport based on i2p?

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 06:20:53AM -0400, Lolint wrote: > Hi, > > Could it be possible to implement a pluggable transport using i2p? The way > this could work > is that a server would function as a bridge node, and will also have the i2p > router installed, > and the client will connect to this

Re: [tor-talk] Possible solution to next-gen onion services UX disaster

2017-03-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 01:50:09PM -0400, Lolint wrote: > Hi, > > I just thought about a possible (partial) solution to solve the "UX disaster" > of next-gen onion services, namely the very long addresses. Tor Browser > already ships with HTTPS > Everywhere, and one can easily write rules that

[tor-talk] Setting up own meek servers

2017-03-08 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
So, when meek-google was suspended, one of the recommendations for people was to set up their own apps in AppEngine as meek servers. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041699.html Wouldn't it be a good idea to encourage people to do so, but in a way that everyone and not

Re: [tor-talk] Transparent Proxy with iptables

2017-01-26 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Apparently attachments don't work here. So I uploaded it do my webserver: https://www.parckwart.de/files/nuclear_waste/transproxy.sh.txt -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

[tor-talk] Transparent Proxy with iptables

2017-01-26 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Hello! I made my own iptables bash script for redirection of local traffic through Tor. I built upon the examples from https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy while adding in some extra functionality that I'd like. This being: - Disable redirection for every user in

Re: [tor-talk] [GetTor] Simple way of getting Tor countering TorProject.org and its mirrors censorship using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

2017-01-05 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
The problem with this of course is that you need to trust a third party: The Internet Archive. Unless you have some checksums of binaries or - much better of course - the Tor developer's PGP keys. If you have some way of verifying what you download, this circumvention method might be a good

Re: [tor-talk] confusion over verification instructions for build verification on Mac OS X

2016-12-13 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:48:46AM -0500, Tor-talk wrote: > Reading through this: > https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en#BuildVerification > > Trying to do this on Mac OS X. > > `shasum -a 256 .dmg` clearly gives me a checksum that > doesn't match the one in the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 01:52:22AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > Sorry about missing the typo in my initial reply. It _was_ an invalid > rule. But accepting lo is necessary with default deny, right? Yes, sorry, you're right. My bad. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:12:54AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > Oops. Sorry. I'm used to straight Tor and Whonix. So how does one lock > down Tor using Tor browser? Well, given the way OP phrased his question, I just assumed he wanted to prevent any unwanted input to his system, which is why I gave

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

2016-12-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:33:23PM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > On 12/10/2016 07:16 AM, Jason Long wrote: > > Hello. > > I like to close all INPUT connections via iptables but I like to use > > TorBrowser, Then Which port(s) must be open? > > > > -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9151 -j ACCEPT > > >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

2016-12-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 12:26:47PM +, Jason Long wrote: > Excuse me, I must allow input to my system? It is so bad :(, I don't like to > allow everyone. This has nothing to do with Tor. It's just the general way how the IP protocol works. Without allowing stateful input, you couldn't do any

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and iptables.

2016-12-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
You always need to allow some input as well in order for the Tor guard node to talk to your computer. Stateful Inspection is used for this. Here's a complete ruleset to accomplish what you asked for. All output is allowed, but no input, except it belongs to some output your computer previously

Re: [tor-talk] Fedora repo Tor broken?

2016-12-10 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
> Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost Tor[4096]: Couldn't open "/var/lib/tor/lock" for > locking: Permission denied > Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost Tor[4096]: set_options(): Bug: Acting on config > options left us in a broken state. Dying. (on Tor 0.2.8.9 ) > Dec 09 11:59:12 localhost systemd[1]: tor.service:

Re: [tor-talk] Self-deleting scripts in http connections

2016-12-08 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
> This sequence of events got me thinking; the exit node queries servers on > the behalf of the Tor Browser. Some sites simply cannot be connected to via > HTTPS. Thus, the exit node must query the site requested in HTTP, which can > be modified in transit. If done, what form of protections could

Re: [tor-talk] Self-deleting scripts in http connections

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:47:11PM -0800, Rythyrix wrote: > Greetings, all. > > Recently, as I was browsing over to coppersurfer dot tk , I on a whim opened > up Firefox's Element Inspector (right click -> Inspect Element (Q)) . > Imagine my surprise when I find a script before the title tag.

Re: [tor-talk] Find Real IP via ISP.

2016-11-23 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Yes, luckily that's not happening yet. At least not on a large scale. In order for that technique to really work out, all ISPs in all countries your Tor connection goes through would need to work together. The more geographically and politically diverse the countries your Tor circuit goes

Re: [tor-talk] is it compulsory to enable bridges or apps VPN mode on orbot

2016-11-15 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:33:53AM +0530, krihsna wrote: > orbot version: 15.2.0-rc7 > os: android asop 5.1 > > recently i have downloaded & installed orbot on my device. > > i have a few questions about the app: > > [q] is it absolutely necessary to enable bridges or apps VPN mode ? > Bridges

Re: [tor-talk] How to use Torsocks in Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit?

2016-11-11 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 05:24:42PM +, blo...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Using the latest version of Torsocks with: torsocks ssh root@111.222.222.111 > gives: > > PERROR torsocks[13225]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in > socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202) > ssh: connect to host

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-08 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
g wrote: > How can I find a good list of secure Bridge? > > On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 1:38 PM, Jonathan Marquardt > <m...@parckwart.de> wrote: > > > One thing should be clear: > > If one is not using a bridge, it is trivial for any network observer

Re: [tor-talk] Please Remove Tor bridge and... from Censorship countries.

2016-11-08 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
One thing should be clear: If one is not using a bridge, it is trivial for any network observer (University firewall admin, Iran ISP) to see if one is using Tor. However, with the right bridge setup such a detection can ultimately be prevented. I guess meek is the best candidate for an

Re: [tor-talk] Unable to enforce exit node country (ubuntu)?

2016-11-07 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Tor Browser does not use the Tor process installed on our system. In fact, if you only want to use Tor Browser you don’t even need any Tor package. In your Tor Browser directory, navigate to Tor Browser -> Data -> Tor. In there you’ll find Tor Browser’s torrc file. On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at

Re: [tor-talk] Google indexing the onion

2016-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
Look at the exact URLs of the pages that are indexed. They are Tor2Web sites (onion.to, onion.link etc.), right? Those have always been indexed, nothing special. On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 11:20:51AM -0400, Kevin wrote: > Has anybody else noticed that onion sites are starting to come up on Google