Re: [tor-talk] A 2nd Tor Browser (partial) profile?

2020-12-19 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 04:36:53PM -0600, JoeB wrote: > In TorBrowser 10.0.7 why is there a 2nd (partial) "profile.default", > just above the original profile.default?  I thought TBB's auto update > function had gone hay wire, but a clean install also creates 2 > profile.default folders. > >

Re: [tor-talk] Where is the tor signing key?

2020-12-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:19:46AM +, Colin Baxter wrote: > > The URL https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/ > gives the impression that the signing key email address is > torbrow...@torproject.org. However > > gpg2 --search-keys torbrow...@torproject.org > > gives >

Re: [tor-talk] Fake Tor Browser on Google play store

2020-10-08 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:23:23PM +, torrio888 wrote: > On Google play store there is a fake Tor Browser called "Torn Browser" that > claims to be "the only official mobile browser supported by the Tor Project, > developers of the world’s strongest tool for privacy and freedom online". > If

Re: [tor-talk] TBB-10 cursors, pointers location

2020-10-06 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:57:54PM -0500, joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: > This is in Linux Mint 18.1 - Cinnamon. > I know all cursor themes installed in my Mint installation. > > After a fairly recent Tor Browser update - a few months?? ago, the > "default" mouse pointer TBB used and the weird

Re: [tor-talk] Idea for a stand-alone browser based on Tor browser source code

2020-07-09 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 12:12:55PM -0700, joel04g_t5...@secmail.pro wrote: > Tor browser has good defense against many tracking techniques, however, > internet users may want a way to browse the web without anonymity but with > some of the great features Tor browser provides. (Security Level, >

Re: [tor-talk] Browser want UNIX sys_admin capability

2020-04-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:49 PM Nicolas Vigier wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Mr. Bob Dobalina wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > it happen to see Firefox and tor bundle browser (linux64) both demand for > > sys_admin capabilities, see man 7 capabilitites. > > > > Why exactly they need the

Re: [tor-talk] Revisiting youtube blocking TBB, virtually all 1st attempts to load YT

2020-03-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 04:49:16PM -0600, joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: [snip] > It's unclear if the exit relay's country was / is a factor - too little > testing by me to be conclusive. > But, I found that manually clearing TBB's cache in about:preferences, > THEN restarting TBB worked a high

[tor-talk] .onion alt-svc issues?

2020-03-02 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hello everyone, I'm curious if anyone has recently experienced issues with websites offering .onion alternative services. We have a slightly old Tor Browser ticket for "prioritizing" .onion alt-svc entries over non-.onions, but in my testing I could not reproduce the described behavior. I am

Re: [tor-talk] Validating the DA authority document

2020-02-23 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:13 PM Gary Chapman wrote: > > Hi community, > > I've tried reading the TOR docs, but I can't seem to wrap my head around "Tor" [0] > how the authority document works (as regards signature validation) ... I've > gotten circuit building working in a standalone c#

Re: [tor-talk] TBB "Security Level" Question.

2020-02-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:56 PM wrote: > > Reading documents like https://tb-manual.torproject.org/ answers a lot > of questions for newer TBB users. Also, just as Firefox changes > constantly, TBB has ongoing changes. > > On 2/8/20 3:53 PM, mimb...@danwin1210.me wrote: > > My impression is that

Re: [tor-talk] loading some content changes Tor Browser 9.0 to full screen

2019-11-19 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hi! Sorry for the delay, thanks for your questions. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 9:16 AM Joe wrote: > > In TBB 9.0, should about:config "full-screen-api.enabled" be "true?" > It is =true by default, in my auto-updated TBB 9.0, in Linux Mint. Yes. > > I also see similar (default value) prefs, that

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser is only showing a black windows after today's update

2019-10-23 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:28 PM Nirgal wrote: > > Hi > > I'm using Tor Browser Bundle on Debian stable, with xfce. > > After last update, tor is only showing a black windows. > > I get the first small window "Establishing a connexion..." then the regular > big window "Tor Browser", so I guess

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and Importing Cookies.

2019-10-02 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hi, Interesting question. On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:03 PM wrote: > > Just a quick question about how cookies are used in Tor. > > Just for an experiment, I exported cookies from Firefox in JSPN format and > imported then into TBB (via an add-on that allows the import of JSON > data). > >

Re: [tor-talk] stay clear from exit "BSDNow2016"

2019-07-02 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:35 PM nusenu wrote: > > Hi, Hi nusenu, > > the tor exit relay "BSDNow2016" [1] reroutes > traffic back into the tor network instead of exiting it. > It uses other exits instead of being > an actual exit. This allows it to inspect traffic without having to deal > "Stay

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Android 8.5.1 obfs4 Bridges Problem

2019-06-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:02 AM Georg Koppen wrote: > > Lotta Kallio: > > Yes, i tried. It is not working. If someone can interest with this issue we > > would be appreciated in here. > > It is weird that those bridges are working for you on desktop and not on > mobile. Are you on the same

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-relays] ALL GREYPONY SERVERS ARE OPEN FOR DDOS

2019-05-03 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:27:14AM +, Stirling Newberry wrote: > ATTENTION GREYPONY USERS > > ALL GREYPONY EXITS WILL BE TARGETED FOR DDOS. THIS REQUEST HAS COME FROM > PRETTY HIGH UP. GAME OVER BITCHES. YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE DONE. LOIC WILL > BE USED TO TARGET THE NODES. DON'T SAY YOU

Re: [tor-talk] How Tor Browser changing circuits for tabs?

2019-04-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:55 AM wrote: > How does Tor Browser change circuits for each tabs? > You may find this section of the Tor Browser design document of interest: https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability > > In Tor Browser, a circuit for tabs

Re: [tor-talk] tor in arm

2019-04-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:53:39AM +, Linklinklink wrote: > tor browser doesn't work in a arm based system, i tried with raspberri pi 3. > Who know a very nice alternative for this shit? thanks Thanks for your interest! "this shit" isn't appropriate for this mailing list, please be

Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change

2019-03-29 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 05:39:00AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > On 03/28/2019 02:27 AM, Nicolas Vigier wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Mirimir wrote: > > > >> On 03/27/2019 08:01 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> Who changed the web content at https://www.torproject.org/download/

Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change

2019-03-27 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 04:01:04PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, > > Who changed the web content at https://www.torproject.org/download/ ? > Previously I could relatively easily check for the latest tor version > but now I get only a number of tor browser options in a page that is way

Re: [tor-talk] Moving stuff between Tor Browsers

2018-12-21 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 04:24:30PM +0100, Robin Lee wrote: > Hi list > > I'm wondering what is the proper way to move all the > settings/bookmarks/saved passwords from one instance of Tor Browser to > an other? It doesn't matter if information gets overwritten on the > receiving end. Same version

Re: [tor-talk] Get relay information from the "Network Status Consensuses" file?

2018-11-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 03:57:34PM +0800, Lucon Yang wrote: > The "Network Status Consensuses" file contains some relay information I > need. Now I have a relay's fingerprint, but I did't find a fingerprint > field in this file. > How can I get a relay's information from the file by the relay's >

Re: [tor-talk] Exit nodes can redirect requests?

2018-08-09 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:14:03PM +0200, onionsmas...@tutanota.com wrote: > > So I was browsing some old clearnet forum posts using Tails and Tor browser. > Some posts had embedded images from a Tor hidden site via onion.casa gateway. > That gateway site seems to be inactive nowadays. > I

Re: [tor-talk] HSTS forbids "Add an exception" (also, does request URI leak?)

2018-08-08 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 04:27:33PM +, Need Secure Mail wrote: > On August 8, 2018 1:57 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > > > Right. This is the recommendation in the RFC [0]. It would be > > counter-productive if the webserver informed the browser that the > > website sh

Re: [tor-talk] HSTS forbids "Add an exception" (also, does request URI leak?)

2018-08-08 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:59:23AM +, Need Secure Mail wrote: > On August 7, 2018 11:14 PM, nusenu wrote: > >> did you notice the non-HSTS/HSTS distinction when trying to add an > >> exception? > > On August 8, 2018 1:51 AM, grarpamp wrote: > > If there is, would have to look closer, thx.

Re: [tor-talk] torjail - run programs in tor network namespace

2018-07-24 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:44:36PM -0800, I wrote: > > "Tor", and not "TOR". > > -- > > With respect, > > Roman > > Is this list for capital punishment? > Or is this a community for freedom? This is a list for empowering each other and building a community and technology for helping those who

Re: [tor-talk] torjail - run programs in tor network namespace

2018-07-23 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:51:53AM +0200, bic wrote: > Hello, > > I want to share a project made in _to hacklab. > > https://github.com/torjail/torjail Nice! Very interesting. > > We would like to have some feedback about the project, particularly if you > find some way to deanonimize a

Re: [tor-talk] GNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Apps from Nautilus

2018-05-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:48:00PM +, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > According to recent commits the desktop enviroment GNOME is removing the > ability to launch apps from Nautilus. This will likely affect all Tor > Browser users on Ubuntu in the name of "security". What steps will / >

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser "Sandbox" Development Status?

2018-05-01 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:48:00PM +, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > Hello, > > So I see there is a download available, that's Linux exclusive, for Tor > Browser "Sandbox", is this a stable or alpha build? Is this considered > production ready or still an experiment? Please see both

Re: [tor-talk] Fingerprinting issue in Tor Browser for macOS

2018-04-30 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:26:00AM +, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > When using Tor Browser for macOS, the EFF's tool panoptclick shows that > a large amount of fonts are available, while Tor Browser for Linux > claims only Wingdings is available. This could allow a website know > whether

Re: [tor-talk] How do the OBFS4 "built-in" Bridges work?

2018-04-30 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:21:00AM +, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > So the concerns I brought up are already addressed in an upcoming update? Yes, and/but no. Moat is a good step in the correct direction, but it by no means solves all the problems. Moat simply retrieves bridges from

Re: [tor-talk] How do the OBFS4 "built-in" Bridges work?

2018-04-30 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 03:41:47PM -0400, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > Thank you for clarifying that. The obfs4 bridges you can get at > bridges.torproject.org also pose an interesting risk, the ports each > Bridge IP Address is using seem to be non-standard, I'm in the US and > most

Re: [tor-talk] How do the OBFS4 "built-in" Bridges work?

2018-04-29 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 02:06:49PM -0400, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > I see that Tor Browser, for users who are censored in their country, > work, or school (or have some other reason to use bridges) has a variety > of built in bridges. Once of those are the OBFS4 bridges. My first >

Re: [tor-talk] Structured Information on Tor

2018-04-13 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 03:30:15AM -0400, sVYVGcT5jfBv9vnfL0Ey wrote: > Hey Guys! Hi! It's great you're interested this! Just so you know for next time, as a matter of respect for everyone on this list, we use "y'all" or "everyone" (or something similar). > > I am a total Tor-Newbie and wanted

Re: [tor-talk] Intercept: NSA MONKEYROCKET: Cryptocurrency / AnonBrowser Service - Full Take Tracking Users, Trojan SW

2018-03-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:21:40AM -0400, Wanderingnet wrote: > I'm puzzled by the entire basis of this posting. Bitcoin is, in itself, > well-known to be completely transparent on the blockchain, making > transactions traceable as a matter of course. Considerable study has been > done in this

Re: [tor-talk] Tor4

2018-03-06 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 06:06:21AM -0500, Anon Hyde wrote: > I've poor slow english and apologize for any possible inaccuracies. Who is > "shill"? This isn't related to your below question, and it's not related to Tor, so this topic should be dropped. "A shill, also called a plant or a

Re: [tor-talk] Launching new tabs in existing TBB from the shell

2018-02-17 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 09:29:15PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 02/17/2018 07:52 PM, Rusty Bird wrote: > > Lars Nood�n: > >> I've looked around a bit and wonder how to launch new tabs from the > >> shell into a running TBB instance. > > > > $ ./Browser/start-tor-browser --allow-remote # for

Re: [tor-talk] company devised process to disable Intel Management Engine

2017-12-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 04:29:16PM -0600, Joe wrote: > Not sure if this info has been posted before > >"Purism disables intel's flawed management engine on linux-powered laptops > LINUX PC MAKER Purism has devised a process to disable the flawed Intel > Management Engine" >

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:36:25PM +0200, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > Some extra info... > > > I use expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion (www.torproject.org) as test .onion > > address but this address does not seem very stable to me. Getting a > > response will frequently take several minutes. Is there an

Re: [tor-talk] help

2017-08-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
Hi Petey, On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 03:46:59AM +, petey lean wrote: > I don't understand why i can't connect to the tor browser, i've joined the > IRC I just kept getting link to the support page only thing on support page > i saw about loading tor log files to get help when having a problem

Re: [tor-talk] How stealth onions actually function?

2016-08-06 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 10:24:53AM +0300, Nurmi, Juha wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing with stealth onion services[1] to protect some of my > SSH servers from SSH MITM. I like to keep my servers as hidden as possible. > > Great to have this option on Tor :) I have some questions about it and

Re: [tor-talk] Get Tor bridge via python code

2015-10-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:52:33PM +0330, Farbod Ahmadian wrote: > Hello every one: > How can i get tor bridges via a python code? > I mean i run the python code and it give me my bridges. > Thank you :) Hi Farod, Sadly no, you can not retrieve bridges easily using a python script. The website

Re: [tor-talk] ISP CenturyLink Blocking Tor?

2015-02-01 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 04:14:26PM +, nathan...@moltennetworks.co.uk wrote: I have been at a close friend's house recently and his provider is CenturyLink (at home I use TimeWarner Cable). I tried to download Tor Tails (over BitTorrent) and the Internet literally dropped so I closed

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and solidarity against online harassment

2014-12-11 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:56:36PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi Gregory,Do you stand in solidarity with the Tor devs against online harassment?  A wish to refrain from deflecting a conversation isn't exactly the same thing. I stand in solidarity with the Tor community against online

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.3 released - Our fourth beta release!

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:33:27PM +0530, Sukhbir Singh wrote: The plugin on AMO has been preliminarily reviewed and we are still in the review process. It is again possible (Hooray!) to install TorBirdy directly from Thunderbird or by downloading the extension in a web browser from

Re: [tor-talk] misleading advice in Ars Technica article about patched binaries

2014-11-17 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:16:58AM +, wyory wrote: Hello Tor friends: AN article on Ars Technica about the malicious exit nodes contains some misleading advice attributed to Tor officials. From end of article: Tor officials have long counseled people to employ a VPN when using the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Blog: Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous

2014-11-09 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:48:35AM -0800, coderman wrote: Griffin, Matt, Adam, Roger, David, George, Karen, and Jake worked on a wonderful write up of all the questions and concerns regarding this Op: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous Thanks

Re: [tor-talk] Facebook brute forcing hidden services

2014-10-31 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:07:24PM -0400, Mike wrote: Here is an obvious question that I can't figure out. Why would you use a service that cares nothing about keeping your details secret? They'll give you up to the state faster than you can blink. If you are in a country that blacklists

Re: [tor-talk] New SSLv3 attack: Turn off SSLv3 in your TorBrowser

2014-10-15 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:15:26PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: Hi! It's a new month, so that means there's a new attack on TLS. This time, the attack is that many clients, when they find a server that doesn't support TLS, will downgrade to the ancient SSLv3. And SSLv3 is subject to a new

Re: [tor-talk] orWall 1.0.0 released!

2014-10-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 09:37:42AM +0200, CJ wrote: Hello! just a small update regarding orWall: it's released 1.0.0! There's still *one* annoying issue regarding the tethering, but it should be OK next week. Just have to take some time in order to debug this for good. orWall provides

Re: [tor-talk] Why adding Guard-Exit (EE) node in Tor yeild more catch probability than adding guard and exit node separately?

2014-08-05 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:40:17AM +0900, saurav dahal wrote: I am trying to observe the catch probability i.e. probability that a client selects my added guard as well as exit node while making a circuit. First I inserted certain number of guard nodes and certain number of exit nodes in Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-27 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 02:09:52AM -0400, The Caped Wonderwoman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The difficulty of obtaining a Riseup account may be prohibitive for a lot of people, especially if they need a bridge quickly for whatever reason. Anecdotally, I

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 03:44:21PM +, obx wrote: Because we need an adequately popular provider that makes it hard to generate lots of addresses. Otherwise an attacker could make millions of addresses and be millions of different people asking for bridges. I know this is the reason,

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-24 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29:49PM +, ideas buenas wrote: I don't trust Gmail nor Yahoo. Roger, found another way. No excuses, please. This actually has very little to do with trust, and (as Roger said) these providers were chosen because of the difficulty of creating new accounts. Out of

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-24 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 06:37:27PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: On 14-07-24 06:29 PM, ideas buenas wrote: I don't trust Gmail nor Yahoo. Roger, found another way. No excuses, please. I am curious why Riseup.net isnt in the list of popular and relatively secure email providers. Also there

Re: [tor-talk] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:36:23PM +, isis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Eugen Leitl transcribed 5.8K bytes: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/jamming-xkeyscore_4.html?m=1 Errata Security Advanced persistent cybersecurity Friday, July 04, 2014

Re: [tor-talk] Security concerns with running an exit relay

2014-06-05 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:58:46PM -0800, I wrote: S7R, That is a start. But where is the full and exemplary answer for someone like me who really wants to get it right but doesn't know how to set the DirFrontPage up or the NTP syncing? Roger says to try the tor-relay list but that has

Re: [tor-talk] Can someone please help me understand section 1.10 of the rendezvous spec

2014-06-03 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 07:47:29PM +, Yaron Goland wrote: I'm trying to understand section 1.10 of https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt It seems to say that Alice and Bob directly negotiate a shared symmetric key. Is that true? Does it mean

Re: [tor-talk] Does Tor need to be recompiled *after* the openssl update?

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:04:27AM -0400, hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: For those of us who compile Tor from source, does Tor need to be recompiled *after* the openssl update from our OS vendors? Maybe. If you are upgrading OpenSSL from a much older version then you may need to recompile Tor (so

Re: [tor-talk] IMPORTANT: Heartbleed vulnerability impact on Hidden Service experiment

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:16:18PM +0300, s...@sky-ip.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, After seeing the challenge done by CloudFlare, to setup a server open to the internet with that vulnerable OpenSSL version so everyone could try and get its private keys

Re: [tor-talk] Viewing current Dir Auth votes

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:59:32AM -0400, Michael Wolf wrote: Is there a way to view just the most recent directory authority votes? I found the archives here: https://metrics.torproject.org/data.html April is 1.5 GB, which is a lot when I only want to see set of votes. If there is

Re: [tor-talk] Does Tor need to be recompiled *after* the openssl update?

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:51:46PM +0200, Nicolas Vigier wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 05:04:27AM -0400, hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: For those of us who compile Tor from source, does Tor need to be recompiled *after* the openssl update

Re: [tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 2014 20140309 released

2014-03-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 06:38:23PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686, x86_64 or MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an

Re: [tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-02-07 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:46:32PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: So many sites that we all use are now blacklisting Tor. It's unclear whether it is via their use of tools that blindly utilize blacklists, or if they are making a conscious choice to deny Tor users. As far as I'm concerned, we are all

Re: [tor-talk] question about bridge relays

2014-01-27 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:09:39AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:43:02PM -0600, Kevin Nestor wrote: all of your posts and videos about setting up for to use a bridge rely on an older version of bridge that uses vidalia separately. Now that everyone can only

Re: [tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-07 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 06:19:57PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 10/7/2013 5:27 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:18:17PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Haven't been able to reach StartPage or Ixquick sites or do search for a week or more, in TBB 2.3.25-12. Can't even reach

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-13 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0700, lee colleton wrote: I'd like some help getting obfs3 set up. I'm seeing an error when I attempt to start an obfsproxy bridge: Aug 13 06:49:17.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.4.15-rc (git-f41c20b344fb7359) opening new log file. Aug 13 06:49:17.000 [notice]

Re: [tor-talk] So what about Pirate Browser?

2013-08-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 05:20:47PM +, adrelanos wrote: Jerzy Łogiewa: Hello! It looks that The Pirate Bay will enter secure browser market, http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-releases-pirate-browser-to-thwart-censorship-130810/ http://piratebrowser.com/ I do not understand

Re: [tor-talk] [Tails-dev] secure and simple network time (hack)

2013-04-12 Thread Matthew Finkel
I don't really understand your reservation about this project. It's reasonable to want authenticated time to a non-webserver of ones choice. Depending on your environment, tlsdate is complementary to the various other programs. You can (and will) use whatever you decide fits your needs, but please

Re: [tor-talk] Can't connect to http://jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion/roundcube/

2013-03-27 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:15:45PM -0500, Gramps wrote: When I attempt to logon to http://jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion/roundcube/ I get an error message DATABASE ERROR: CONNECTION FAILED! Unable to connect to the database! Please contact your server-administrator. Does anybody have

Re: [tor-talk] Please help w...@lksne.go-plus.net

2012-12-29 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 07:56:55PM +, W. Alksne wrote: *As I cannot get the Tor Browser to work I wanted to uninstall it BUT nowhere can I find an '_uninstall option_'. I would appreciate your advice or recommendations . Faithfully , *Wolfram Alksne .* * Hi Wolfram, The Tor Browser

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

2012-12-01 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 12/01/2012 06:14 PM, John Case wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, grarpamp wrote: I don't agree. torsocks is still useful to prevent identity correlation through circuit sharing. Pushing all traffic through Trans- and DnsPort is not the answer. Also, I don't want all of my applications using

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

2012-11-03 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 11/03/2012 08:38 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/02/2012 07:36 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Nick Mathewson: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Could you blog it please

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

2012-11-02 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 11/02/2012 07:36 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Nick Mathewson: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Could you blog it please? I'd like to see more discussion from more people here first, and see whether somebody steps up to say, Yeah, I can maintain that

Re: [tor-talk] VPS provider

2012-09-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 09/25/2012 01:42 PM, Flo wrote: +1 This. The problem is especially on container-virtualizations like OpenVZ is that the admins of the hostnodes must just type something like 'vzctl enter 123' and they have a shell in your VPS... So you should have at least Xen/KVM where you can use

Re: [tor-talk] VPS provider

2012-09-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 09/25/2012 04:00 PM, irregula...@riseup.net wrote: On 09/25/2012 10:18 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: On 09/25/2012 01:42 PM, Flo wrote: +1 This. The problem is especially on container-virtualizations like OpenVZ is that the admins of the hostnodes must just type something like 'vzctl enter

Re: [tor-talk] http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Randolph D. rdohm...@gmail.com wrote: TBB =/ Torbrowser website redesgined in blue Though imitation is the highest form of flattery, you should really just redesign your site. Create your own CSS and maybe try using a 3-column design instead of just 2...provides

Re: [tor-talk] HTTPS to hidden service unecessary?

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Juenca R jue...@yahoo.com wrote: T or HS provide end-to-end encryption, however imho SSL it still maybe useful if: - You use a Tor Gateway (for example in a Lan or WiFi) to reach the .onion darknet space and you don't want to trust your Tor Gateway or