Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-27 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 03:08:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?), but some good solid facts would sure be useful. Hello, Just in these recent

Re: [tor-talk] Default clients to be non-exit relay LibTech x

2013-08-27 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:29:48 -0700 Percy Alpha percyal...@gmail.com wrote: There're few problems with ISP when running non-exit relay. Users in moderately censored areas can act as non-exit relay without causing problem to the circuit. So why doesn't Tor default to non-exit relay? Users with

Re: [tor-talk] Default clients to be non-exit relay

2013-08-21 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:32:55 -0700 Percy Alpha percyal...@gmail.com wrote: There're few problems with ISP when running non-exit relay. Users in moderately censored areas can act as non-exit relay without causing problem to the circuit. So why doesn't Tor default to non-exit relay? Users with

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:32:13 -0700 Gordon Morehouse gor...@morehouse.me wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 B Sairafi: Hello I'm using Tor Browser, and I need to be seen by a specific website as if I'm in the US. Is

Re: [tor-talk] Flattor: A practical crowdfunded Flattr-like incentive scheme for Tor relays

2013-08-17 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:25:41 +0300 George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: Currently, (we want to believe that) the Tor network is run by a bunch of cypherpunks that are contributing bandwidth because they believe in the Cause. If relay operators start getting money for their

[tor-talk] torproject.us?

2013-08-09 Thread Roman Mamedov
Hello, What is www.torproject.us, and is it a scam clone website serving trojaned copies of Tor and TBB? I always thought the Tor website is only www.torproject.org, but today I see a link to the .us site, with no explanation of what's the relation to .org and why on earth something like that

Re: [tor-talk] Introducing Tor Forums :-)

2013-08-06 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:14:13 -0400 Nathan Suchy theusernameiwantista...@gmail.com wrote: Admin of Tor Forums http://www.torforums.tk/ The amount of seriousness and dedication with which you approach this project truly shines through the fact that you couldn't even spare $7 for a real domain --

Re: [tor-talk] Feasability of Network Backbone growth via hardware rollout

2013-07-29 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:19:07 -0400 JC Biggs j...@motorsports-x.com wrote: However the main goal of the system is to offer a simple built in OS, with a facebook like networking experience, self hosted email, self hosted picture storage and most importantly a distributed computing platform

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-07-24 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:24:26 +0600 Roman Mamedov r...@romanrm.ru wrote: you're probably going to be building Firefox on a Raspberry Pi, Sorry: probably NOT going to be building...* where you only have 256 or 512 MB of RAM, slow CPU and slow and prone to dying from wear-out SD card

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-07-23 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:47:37 -0400 David Huerta huerta...@opentil.com wrote: based on GNU/Linux and thus compatible with the GNU/Linux Tor browser bundle. That's just beyond hilarious, mind pointing us to a download link of TBB for the ARM architecture? Or which of the two available ones should

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:36:50 +0200 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Why not FB or G+, or whatever. Well for one, because it will be kind of hilarious when you won't be able to use the Tor forum/group/circle/whatever _via Tor_. Google already does hassle Tor users with their constant captchas

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: real solution = discussion forum Following a dozen forums is a time-consuming hassle, but keeping up with a dozen of mailing lists in a proper client with filtering set-up is just a breeze. The best you will get from

[tor-talk] E-Mail delays // Re: Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:40:07 -0700 Asa Rossoff a...@lovetour.info wrote: Hi Cat, You've been more involved in the Torr community than I over the past 10 years; I'm only newly trying to get really actively involved, and am pretty much new to the scene, so you can bear that in mind. OK,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha is out

2013-06-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:18:47 -0700 Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: Roger Dingledine: Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch

Re: [tor-talk] DNS provider that does not hijack failures

2013-05-31 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 31 May 2013 15:07:13 -0400 Ted Smith te...@riseup.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 21:02 +0200, Andreas Krey wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:32:27 +, Ted Smith wrote: ... 30 second brainstorm of reasons why Google would run a public DNS: * Reduce load times/increase

Re: [tor-talk] What are some good VPS providers for Tor?

2013-05-28 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:41:05 -0400 Nathan Suchy theusernameiwantista...@gmail.com wrote: Would running a bridge on Amazon be a bad idea? I could afford that. I know of an offshore provider that loves privacy projects. Virtually any provider will allow you to run a relay or bridge. Next to none

Re: [tor-talk] The Google Browser, Sand boxing and Tor.

2013-05-23 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 23 May 2013 10:32:07 -0700 Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Andrew F writes: I does appear that chrome is a free software but not open source. They call it proprietary but free software. Is the licensing the issue? Apparently they locked down the code with there terms of

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-04-23 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:05:19 - uru...@tormail.org wrote: i read the messages about websites making it hard to register for torians. these guys throw out the wheat with the chaff. but dont you know to separate wheat from the chaff? As much as I hate to say it, a shortcut to the byzantine

Re: [tor-talk] Need Help with limiting nodes to USA (Was: Need Help)

2013-03-29 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:45:24 +0100 Sebastian G. bastik.tor bastik@googlemail.com wrote: without showing up anonymous made me wonder a bit if I would get what you are trying to achieve. If your threat-model or use-case doesn't require to be anonymous (to a higher degree than you could) you

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-12 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:47:53 +1100 bvvq beveryveryqu...@lavabit.com wrote: Hi tor-talk, I'm not sure where else to ask this question so I give my apologies if this is off-topic. Please feel free to suggest a better list/forum/website. I've had a personal email account with GMail since it

[tor-talk] Guard flag vs relay bandwidth

2012-11-14 Thread Roman Mamedov
Hello, I am looking for ways to optimize several relay nodes to ensure maximum possible bandwidth consumption. The actual numbers I have are within 20-50 megabits in one direction per node (i.e. not the gigabit-scale tuning discussed in the FAQ). From what I can tell the Guard flag affects

Re: [tor-talk] Guard flag vs relay bandwidth

2012-11-14 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:47:38 -0500 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: Right. I've got a half-drafted the lifecycle of a new Tor relay blog post sitting around here somewhere. That would be great. :) If you want to read a lot more about guard flag allocation, see Changing of the Guards: A

Re: [tor-talk] Unsigned Mac OS X binary for TorBrowser

2012-11-10 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:05:58 -0500 Matthew Fisch mfi...@mfisch.com wrote: The installer can be verified with PGP using the published signature and GPG or PGP software. This however, is beyond the technical prowess of the vast majority of Mac OS X users of the torbrowser bundle. Well maybe

Re: [tor-talk] Tor on Plug PC running Arch

2012-10-29 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:38:56 -0500 Chris teslas_mousta...@riseup.net wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get Tor running on a plug computer (used to be a Pogo Plug) that's running Arch Linux ARM on it. I'm SSH-ing to it from my laptop as it doesn't have video out. I'm just having some trouble

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