[tor-talk] Differences between real exit traffic and exit-generated traffic ?

2011-12-30 Thread John Case
Let's say I have an exit node handling average traffic and number of connections (whatever that is). Let's also say that port 22 is included in my exit policy. Now let's say that I, as the administrator, log onto the exit node and: ssh u...@host.com I understand that a global observer

Re: [tor-talk] Differences between real exit traffic and exit-generated traffic ?

2011-12-30 Thread John Case
Robert, On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Robert Ransom wrote: On 2011-12-30, John Case c...@sdf.org wrote: Let's say I have an exit node handling average traffic and number of connections (whatever that is). Let's also say that port 22 is included in my exit policy. Now let's say that I, as the

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew R
Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to start from the beginning because Vidalia is still weird but Tor seems OK now. First, I removed everything: apt-get purge tor vidalia Second, I installed as suggested here (option two) for Ubuntu lucid: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

[tor-talk] TBB on GNU and Windows

2011-12-30 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi I realized that the tbb is behaving differently on GNU and Windows. In Windows, one may start tbb before or after starting an instance of Mozilla Firefox. In GNU, one may start tbb only after opening Firefox first. If tbb is started and I attempt to start a fresh instance of Firefox, it will

[tor-talk] Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore?

2011-12-30 Thread M Robinson
Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore? -- GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). Extensible, customizable text editor---GNU Emacs; Where's yours? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] TBB on GNU and Windows

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:59:14 +0800 Koh Choon Lin 2choon...@gmail.com wrote: I realized that the tbb is behaving differently on GNU and Windows. In Windows, one may start tbb before or after starting an instance of Mozilla Firefox. In GNU, one may start tbb only after opening Firefox first. If

Re: [tor-talk] Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore?

2011-12-30 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:00 PM, M Robinson mr.m.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore? Related to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4795, maybe? -- Runa A. Sandvik ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore?

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:00:55 -0500 M Robinson mr.m.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore? What are you trying to hide/minimize? which os? which desktop? etc? -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x74ED336B ___ tor-talk

[tor-talk] newbie: tor browser bundle and privoxy

2011-12-30 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, list. I am newbie in Tor. By reading an information about tor i found article( http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-anonymous-communication-with-tor-some-hints-and-some-pitfalls ), that says: The biggest problem with many applications is that they /leak DNS requests/. That is,

Re: [tor-talk] Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore?

2011-12-30 Thread M Robinson
Windows 7 65-bit It's not Ticket #4795 (new defect) Everything is fine, but PMW (Process Manager for Windows) cannot affect the Tor Window anymore. I'm trying to hide/minimize the aurora window to the tray. this hasn't been a problem in past versions, but now NONE of these type (PMW, DM2, etc)

Re: [tor-talk] newbie: tor browser bundle and privoxy

2011-12-30 Thread Julian Yon
Привет Иван, I am not a Tor developer but I will try to answer (in English, as my Russian is appalling). On 30/12/11 16:31, Ivan Ivanov wrote: i found, that *Tor Browser Bundle* consist of: * Vidalia 0.2.15 * Tor 0.2.2.35 (with libevent-2.0.16-stable, zlib-1.2.5, openssl-1.0.0e) *

Re: [tor-talk] newbie: tor browser bundle and privoxy

2011-12-30 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi So, Tor Browser Bundle does not contain Privoxy. Now question: does this mean, that Tor Browser Bundle is less secure than separately installed Tor + Privoxy? IIRC I think Privoxy has been replaced by Polipo. -- Regards Koh Choon Lin ___

[tor-talk] Exit/VPN payment and separation options

2011-12-30 Thread grarpamp
 Without question you can find one that will respond very nicely to an official RFQ and a money order. The real hook is a single, annual payment, which will be impossible for them to resist. True, RFQ puts you in control, and they love prepaid. Though putting a year of funds at risk of a

Re: [tor-talk] Differences between real exit traffic and exit-generated traffic ?

2011-12-30 Thread grarpamp
Ok, so there is a response speed fast enough that it *couldn't* have just done a three-hop back and forth ... that's interesting. This is it, a timing and connection pairing thing. If you come in direct from your base to clearnet 22, your outbound line will be extremely keystroke responsive to

Re: [tor-talk] Why can't I hide/minimize to tray anymore?

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:59:50 -0500 M Robinson mr.m.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Windows 7 65-bit You probably mean 64-bit. What patch level are you at? I cannot replicate this on my win7 64bit test machine. TBB 0.2.3.35-3 works fine. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x74ED336B

Re: [tor-talk] Exit/VPN payment and separation options

2011-12-30 Thread Martin Hubbard
On 2011-12-30, grarpamp wrote: [On 2011-12-28,John Case wrote:] Alternatively, a pre-paid visa from somewhere like Simon malls, etc., works Non in-country transactions may be denied along with other prepaid curiosities such as Netflix denials. Read the fine print. Be prepared to

Re: [tor-talk] newbie: tor browser bundle and privoxy

2011-12-30 Thread andrew
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 08:31:18PM +0400, grobokopa...@list.ru wrote 1.5K bytes in 35 lines about: : So, Tor Browser Bundle does not contain Privoxy. : Now question: does this mean, that Tor Browser Bundle is less secure : than separately installed Tor + Privoxy? No. The old answer for this is

Re: [tor-talk] Automatic vulnerability scanning of Tor Network?

2011-12-30 Thread andrew
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 04:50:57AM +, c...@sdf.org wrote 1.4K bytes in 38 lines about: : Either way your name is not attached to it, and your home address, : etc., isn't either. It's trivial for law enforcement to make the one hop from your company to you and then to your house. Stupid

[tor-talk] remailers

2011-12-30 Thread cmeclax-sazri
I used to run a remailer and would like to again. There is a Mixminion package, so I installed it and tried to join the group. What's going on these days with remailers? Should we design a remailer that uses Tor in some way? cmeclax ___ tor-talk