Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-20 Thread Katya Titov
ITechGeek: I would just like to chime in as a Comcast customer, tonight was the first time I've tried hopping on tor browser since this rumor surfaced and traditionally when I launch the tor browser I see tor connect and I'm on. Tonight it took a couple minutes before I was able to connect

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-20 Thread ITechGeek
Ok, it did start-up much quicker when I just did it. So I guess Comcast isn't shaping anymore than things like Netflix. I just don't remember it taking so long even w/ a fresh download of TBB. I'll try to remember to try it out on a couple evenings this coming week and see how it works. Once I

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-19 Thread ITechGeek
I would just like to chime in as a Comcast customer, tonight was the first time I've tried hopping on tor browser since this rumor surfaced and traditionally when I launch the tor browser I see tor connect and I'm on. Tonight it took a couple minutes before I was able to connect (I was able to

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Tempest
Mirimir: Also, some of the abusers have reportedly emphasized PinkMeth's supposed invulnerability as a Tor hidden service, and also their own supposed invulnerability as Tor users. and the abusers reasons for defending pinkmeth displays a particular interest, which leaves them incredibly

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/15/2014 10:09 PM, Juan wrote: Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history. WHAHAHAHHA Just how fucking stupid all those people are. Only persons that haven't read actual news reports, from reputable journalists - in the last 10+ years would

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-16 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:41:13 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... If Comcast or any ISP / mobile provider don't monitor their customers' activities, how are they able to regularly SELL such data to LEAs? What they 'sell' (and I'm rather confident they'd rather not do this particular 'business') is

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: I consider PinkMeth to be far worse, and far worse for Tor's public image, than anything I've seen before. It dehumanizes and exploits the women, of course. But it also corrupts and perverts its users, and puts them at risk, by

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Mirimir
On 09/15/2014 12:02 AM, grarpamp wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: I consider PinkMeth to be far worse, and far worse for Tor's public image, than anything I've seen before. It dehumanizes and exploits the women, of course. But it also corrupts and

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/13/2014 06:35 PM, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an “illegal service.” The Comcast agent told

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Mirimir
On 09/15/2014 11:37 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 09/13/2014 06:35 PM, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Juan
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:41:34 -0400 Rick reru...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/15/2014 01:37 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 09/13/2014 06:35 PM, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread Griffin Boyce
John Pinkman wrote: What about facebook, or gmail, or yahoo selling your information to advertisers? These women also send them to multiple random parties, this also makes them not private. What is private anyway? Stupidity just isn't compatible with privacy much. So because other people

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread John Pinkman
   Give me a break.  These women are being exploited against their will. Taking something private and exposing it to the world as a whole is completely despicable.  It's unethical.  It's not comparable to pornography where consenting adults agree to make media and release it. I really don't

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread Andrew Roffey
John Pinkman wrote: And people you might deem as stupid deserve privacy just as much as the rest of us. Too bad, nobody is out there to guard their privacy rights. This is just the fact. Rights are only as strong as the means of their protection. Except that some of us don't believe

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread Sebastian G. bastik.tor
14.09.2014, 08:16 John Pinkman: Give me a break. These women are being exploited against their will. Taking something private and exposing it to the world as a whole is completely despicable. It's unethical. It's not comparable to pornography where consenting adults agree to make media and

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread Mirimir
On 09/13/2014 10:59 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: John Pinkman wrote: As for PinkMeth, disgusting people do disgusting things all the time without using Tor. If I could burn that hidden service to the ground, I would, but that doesn't solve the underlying problem in our society. PinkMeth case

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-14 Thread Öyvind Saether
I really don't understand why you are particularly so upset with PinkMeth. People's information is being exploited all over, with and without tor. What about facebook, or gmail, or yahoo selling your information to advertisers? There can be very intimate info, textual or graphical, there. I

[tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an “illegal service.” The Comcast agent told

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 03:35:56PM -0700, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an ???illegal service.??? The

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread Rick
On 09/13/2014 06:42 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 03:35:56PM -0700, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
Rick wrote: Roger Dingledine wrote: This article confuses me. For example, it has this statement: Because Tor Browser provides online anonymity to its users, only the ISP used along with it can ascertain what activity takes place on Tor. which sure makes it sound like the author thinks that

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread Griffin Boyce
John Pinkman wrote:    As for PinkMeth, disgusting people do disgusting things all the time without using Tor.  If I could burn that hidden service to the ground, I would, but that doesn't solve the underlying problem in our society. PinkMeth case only points out the underlying problem in

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-13 Thread John Pinkman
   As for PinkMeth, disgusting people do disgusting things all the time without using Tor.  If I could burn that hidden service to the ground, I would, but that doesn't solve the underlying problem in our society. PinkMeth case only points out the underlying problem in society, which doesn't