Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service (Nginx) setup guide

2015-02-13 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That idea is very similar to the design of Whonix which I've used in the past, but not ideal for a tiny VPS perhaps where the goal is to make the site accessible via .onion. For sensitive publications, as I tried to make clear, more steps are required

Re: [tor-talk] Project MEMEX's search engine

2015-02-13 Thread Juha Nurmi
Hi V, On 13.02.2015 09:56, Virgil Griffith wrote: Is there any difference between the MEMEX dark-web search engine and something like ahmia.fi or onion.city? Not sure. Because if they are funding a search engine I'd claim leveraging extant community projects is a good idea. I am going

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service (Nginx) setup guide

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Ingle
Setting up the hidden service itself is easy. Steps 1 thru 97 are set up your website and get it working and secured. Step 98: add a few lines to your torrc, possibly set some directory permissions. Step 99: restart Tor, get your hidden service address. Step 100: test using Tails. The hard

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service (Nginx) setup guide

2015-02-13 Thread WhonixQubes
Hi! Nice to see more user friendly information on setting up hidden services being published. :) I'm a maintainer of the Qubes + Whonix platform. Correct that Whonix or Qubes + Whonix is not optimized for remote server configurations (but can be used if one has the resources and is a more

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread George Kadianakis
Virgil Griffith i...@virgil.gr writes: I present: http://onion.city currently searching ~348,000 pages according to site:onion.city on GOOG. -V Ah, exciting! The use of a custom google search is an interesting idea. I also like the motto and the logo! (although search engine logos are

Re: [tor-talk] Rip Off

2015-02-13 Thread Kevin
On 2/12/2015 11:51 PM, evervigil...@riseup.net wrote: I'd seen this earlier on the tor talk lists (http://cryptographi.com/products/snoopsafe) and realized that this could just as easily be done on a raspberry pi with some creative reprogramming for a hundred bucks less.

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread l.m
Alas no. I'm aware this is suboptimal. I see GOOG search engine as a temporary-ladder just to get the ball rolling. I am open to using any other index. For what it's worth I'm very pleased with GOOG's performance---right now it's searching an index of 650k onion pages and the number grows

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
- How does the custom google search thing works? Where does it get its index? You expose all the tor2web onions on your sitemap, so google crawls them and generates an index? Correct :) Everything available on the Google Custom Search is also available on a regular google search with the

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-02-13 15:30, l.m wrote: If you instead use a google search appliance couldn't you use google engine for indexing without having to use google itself? Wouldn't that also avoid the problem of google queries being associated with the client making the request? It might, but it's licensed

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Virgil Griffith
Are OnionCity staff reviewing and redacting those lists to protect users from themselves? Or is redaction based only on complaints? We do both. For some privacy, users can instead search https://startpage.com/ with site:onion.city, and then view using the Ixquick Proxy. Could OnionCity script

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread Mirimir
On 02/13/2015 03:19 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote: SNIP - How do you crawl for more onions? Right now I aggregate existing lists of onion sites and put them into the site map. * https://ahmia.fi/onions/ * http://skunksworkedp2cg.onion.city/sites.txt *

Re: [tor-talk] Funded search engine for onionspace?

2015-02-13 Thread l.m
Leeroy, to avoid being indexed by Googlebot et al, place the appropriate /robots.txt at your root. It's described in the FAQ. Yes I'm aware of the faq. It's just that in using google you'll always be incomplete compared to ahmia.fi but thats ok by me. --leeroy -- tor-talk mailing list -