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

2014-03-09 Thread Paul Syverson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Il 3/8/14, 8:39 PM, Paul Syverson ha scritto: If you naively view Tor as Yet Another Pulbic Proxy, I agree. But this is the same thinking that leads you to block all encrypted traffic you aren't MITMing. There may be

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

2014-03-08 Thread grarpamp
Regarding 'Tor users are worse than Internet users' and what to do as a Project/Users about blocking... As an example, here are 105,000 hits from people who had to (according to what appears to be Craigslist's current unwritten policy) do two generally non-anonymous things: - post from Clearnet

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

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:22:14AM -0500, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 3.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Theory: Tor is being blocked mostly due to negative news media : perception, and kneejerk catchall solutions taking the cheap and : dumb route to systems and policy... not due to balanced acceptable

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

2014-03-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 2/7/14, 4:46 AM, grarpamp ha scritto: What can we do, as a collective social entity, to put an end to this madness? From a Security-Wise point of view, if i was the IT Security Manager of a company, i would definitively block Tor's access to my IT infrastructure. I would also block most of

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

2014-03-08 Thread Paul Syverson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 08:06:11PM +0100, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Il 2/7/14, 4:46 AM, grarpamp ha scritto: What can we do, as a collective social entity, to put an end to this madness? From a Security-Wise point of view, if i was the IT Security Manager of a company, i would

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

2014-03-08 Thread Akater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The Internet will become more Tor-friendly only when Tor becomes (relatively) mainstream. Unless 1 out of (say) 14 internet users run Tor exit relays, Tor will be blocked, gradually more and more aggressively. Tor community should advertise it,

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

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 08:06:11PM +0100, li...@infosecurity.ch wrote 1.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : From a Security-Wise point of view, if i was the IT Security Manager : of a company, i would definitively block Tor's access to my IT : infrastructure. As a former head of IT for a global

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

2014-02-07 Thread Andrea Shepard
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] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-02-07 Thread Lunar
grarpamp: 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 legitimate users of their services and quite

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

2014-02-07 Thread Paul Syverson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:33:08AM -0800, Al Jigong Billings wrote: Or maybe people got tired of the minority of trolls and nazis that seem to come through Tor to infest some sites. I know people who block Tor. It is usually because a disproportionate amount of the abuse on their site comes

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

2014-02-07 Thread Öyvind Saether
What can we do, as a collective social entity, to put an end to this madness? It is not as if we, as Tor users, present any more of a load upon their help/fraud/abuse desks than the wider open internet as a whole, even when if perhaps adjusted for market share of source IP's. So what can we

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

2014-02-07 Thread shm...@riseup.net
grarpamp: 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 legitimate users of their services and quite

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] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-02-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/7/2014 12:42 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: This is in re: Hulu (whis is presumably authenticated)... but really, it applies to any service which we, the legitimate users of Tor, are denied access to. It has simply gone too far and we should be putting effort into reversing this trend by

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

2014-02-07 Thread Mirimir
On 02/07/2014 01:55 PM, James Marshall wrote: As others have pointed out, the fact (?) that Tor users are no more likely to abuse may not matter as much as the *perception* that they are. However unfairly, the perception of something often carries the day more than the facts, and should be

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

2014-02-07 Thread Mirimir
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[tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-02-06 Thread grarpamp
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 legitimate users of their services and quite frankly, I've had