Re: [tor-talk] Exits: In Crossfire on the Front Lines

grarpamp writes: > [quoting movrcx] > In today’s cyberwar, Tor exit nodes represent the front line of > battle. At this location it is possible to directly observe attacks, > to launch attacks, and to even gather intelligence. An alarming figure > disclosed by The Intercept’s Micah Lee attributed

[tor-talk] Exits: In Crossfire on the Front Lines

https://medium.com/@movrcx/russian-crossfire-on-the-tor-project-ec65b7b8b52f Russian Crossfire on the Tor Project Welcome to the first quarter of 2017. The Ruskies have successfully completed a major full-scope information operation aimed at installing the next leader of the free world. And it’s

Re: [tor-talk] List of ways to attack Tor

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:25:20PM +1030, windows95@national.shitposting.agency wrote: > I'm tasked with doing a short report on the ways in which Tor can be > attacked. > I've brainstormed and done research for few hours and this is the > list I've come up with. > Is there anything big that I've

[tor-talk] TBB initial default UI size overlaps Win task bar

Key words are "initial default UI size." Like many, I've had problems with TBB spoofing the correct screen sizes to sites like browserspy.dk & panopticlick.eff.org. The https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9268 - about TBB screen sizing (rounding, spoofing) says it's closed. Mike

[tor-talk] List of ways to attack Tor

Hello I'm tasked with doing a short report on the ways in which Tor can be attacked. I've brainstormed and done research for few hours and this is the list I've come up with. Is there anything big that I've missed? I feel I might be a bit light on more technical attacks. Your help is greatly

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Alec Muffett wrote: > On 4 January 2017 at 19:39, grarpamp wrote: > >> > But me, I want to get _everybody_ - teachers, journalists, kids, >> everyone. >> >> Absolutely. Same for whatever functions other overlay networks

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> On 04 Jan 2017, at 12:24, Alec Muffett wrote: >> Large chunks of the Tor community are focused on Tor's primary purpose as >> an anonymising proxy, and that's very, very important. >> >>

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

On 4 January 2017 at 19:39, grarpamp wrote: > > But me, I want to get _everybody_ - teachers, journalists, kids, > everyone. > > Absolutely. Same for whatever functions other overlay networks are > good at too. Yet at least with tor, how will that happen when it is >

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > Aside: this was part of why we drunken reprobates were doing this stuff at > 33c3 -- https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/814641733212536832 -- Some dreprobs in the onions have been doing this for years with

[tor-talk] [GetTor] Simple way of getting Tor countering TorProject.org and its mirrors censorship using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Hi, I've found a very neat way (which seems to work) for getting Tor in areas/network in which TorProject.org and its mirrors are blocked using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (assuming archive.org isn't blocked, which may not be the case for China, but it is for many other countries

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

Hi Alec, > On 04 Jan 2017, at 12:24, Alec Muffett wrote: > > Actually, I don't believe that you do disagree with the problem statement > :-) > > I believe that you may concerns with one of my proposed solutions to the > problem, and that's okay because I do too. :-) >

Re: [tor-talk] Possibly Smart, Possibly Stupid, Idea Regarding Tor & Linux Distributions

Hi Sebastian! On 4 January 2017 at 06:24, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > Hi Alec, > > thanks for your thoughts. I have just one very quick comment, but > it seems you haven't addressed it yet: > Okay, I'll give it a go :-) I install Debian stable on my servers precisely