Re: [tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

2013-05-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/24/2013 12:39 PM, Chris Patti wrote: I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack someone else's Gmail account :\ Dunno how I could get around this other than by blocking port 80, which is kind of the point :) How exactly does their hijacking attempt implicate

Re: [tor-talk] DNS provider that does not hijack failures

2013-05-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/30/2013 6:07 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:42:48PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: We use OpenDNS on our network, and I know they provide an info page if someone attempts to browse to a non-existant address. This isn't a big issue normally, but I can see how it's a

Re: [tor-talk] DNS provider that does not hijack failures

2013-05-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/30/2013 8:11 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 07:15:36PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Google? Oh, my. Not ideal, I agree. What would you use, if your ISP's resolvers weren't an option? Also, let's say you don't want to run your own DNS resolver. (Running your own resolver

Re: [tor-talk] DNS provider that does not hijack failures

2013-05-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/31/2013 8:54 AM, Robin Kipp wrote: Hi Joe and Sean, thanks a lot for your suggestions and discussion! I have to say Google DNS really isn't an option for me, because I simply don't trust Google. Even if they do have a decent privacy policy for their DNS service, they do store geographic

Re: [tor-talk] Questions about IT security - can TOR help? Are theyre other systems out there?

2013-06-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/2/2013 7:22 AM, Randolph William Scott wrote: Does Tor browser support a java plugin? No And if you download TOR, are there any insecure parts of the process? No, don't think so. It's a secure site. Any insecurity would likely be in your browser; presence of *possibly* insecure

Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] NSA, FBI, Verizon caught red handed spying on US citizens in the US

2013-06-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/7/2013 9:34 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Richard Brooks r...@acm.org - Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:20:26 -0400 From: Richard Brooks r...@acm.org To: liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] *NSA, FBI, Verizon caught red handed spying on US

[tor-talk] stop page image_thumb from appearing in tabs

2013-06-17 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Must have missed a memo about actual thumbnails (tiny) of pages appearing in each tab, in TBB 2.3.25-8. Not icons - actual thumbs of pages. I don't see that in regular fox, but maybe other addons block that behavior. Do you have to edit an about:config entry to stop them from showing in

[tor-talk] pages time out very fast_no network.http.proxy.keep-alive

2013-08-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Often sites I try to access w/ TBB time out almost instantly, where in Fx (23) same page, at same time - loads OK. The pages aren't Tor aphobics - as they will sometimes load in TBB. Part could be THE IP address being used in TBB, to access a page, at specific time. Some IPs could be on a /

[tor-talk] Startpage, Ixquick not accessible

2013-09-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Has anyone else had problems accessing startpage, Ixquick DuckDuckGo search engines w/ TBB recently? For several days several restarts of Windows TBB 2.3.25-12, their pages time out almost immediately on accessing them. Restarted TBB, changed identities closed current relays several times

Re: [tor-talk] Startpage, Ixquick not accessible

2013-09-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/30/2013 10:01 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Has anyone else had problems accessing startpage, Ixquick DuckDuckGo search engines w/ TBB recently? For several days several restarts of Windows TBB 2.3.25-12, their pages time out almost immediately on accessing them. Restarted TBB, changed

[tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-09-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Info given on panopticlick.eff.org is a bit confusing in that some of it seems incorrect. If that makes a browser more common, I guess it's a good thing. But some of the info it shows as incorrect is very uncommon. That doesn't mean someone trying to finger print a browser would get the same

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-10-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/1/2013 12:48 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:08:58 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... No cookies are set, so that doesn't affect outcome. In fact, the bits of identifying information shown in results chart largely remain identical (except screen size sometimes changes

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-10-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/1/2013 12:06 PM, Nicolas Vigier wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Not sure I understand the question in this context. Without cookies, I don't expect them to identify repeat visitors. I read their full paper on how they use the data collected https://panopticlick.eff.org

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-10-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/2/2013 12:08 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:43:10 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... I believe in same TBB version (maybe the same in many versions) they spoof the useragent time zone, but wouldn't differences in screen sizes color bit ALONE, among a few users on one entry

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/2/2013 7:00 AM, harmony wrote: Tor Weekly NewsOctober 2nd, 2013 On September 28th, Mike Perry released

Re: [tor-talk] Adblock for everyone

2013-10-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Thanks for your insight. On 10/6/2013 10:18 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: Adblock whitelists certain advertising companies and ads themselves: These white lists can easily be disabled, but then that conflicts w/ Tor's concept of damaging sites' acceptance of Tor (interesting point). However,

Re: [tor-talk] Adblock for everyone

2013-10-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/6/2013 3:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Thanks for your insight. On 10/6/2013 10:18 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: Adblock whitelists certain advertising companies and ads themselves: These white lists can easily be disabled, but then that conflicts w/ Tor's concept of damaging sites' acceptance

[tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Haven't been able to reach StartPage or Ixquick sites or do search for a week or more, in TBB 2.3.25-12. Can't even reach their home pages through another search engine, like Google or Yahoo. ** Are others able to access these 2 search engines in the *same TBB version* as I'm using? If so,

Re: [tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/7/2013 5:27 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:18:17PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Haven't been able to reach StartPage or Ixquick sites or do search for a week or more, in TBB 2.3.25-12. Can't even reach their home pages through another search engine, like Google

Re: [tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/7/2013 9:34 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Thanks, but - Whoa! Tor 0.2.4.x isn't declared stable, so skip it - go straight to 3.0a? I know it's got a lot of ? unproven as rock solid? features, but what about my secret double naught spying duties? So these are actually two versions number for

[tor-talk] which 3.0a4 package is for Windows

2013-10-08 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Is the only set of installers that doesn't list an OS, the one for Windows? https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/3.0a4/ Is there a reason even stable Win versions never reference the OS in file names? Thanks. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To

Re: [tor-talk] which 3.0a4 package is for Windows

2013-10-08 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/8/2013 6:13 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: Is there a reason even stable Win versions never reference the OS in file names? .exe is a Windows(-only) extension. I agree that the OS could be added to the file name to avoid confusion. Thanks, but a question / comment. Except in this case, the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/9/2013 10:27 AM, Lunar wrote: Tor Weekly NewsOctober 9th, 2013 Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/9/2013 5:32 PM, Juan Garofalo wrote: Why hasn't Snowden published all the stuff he got from the NSA nazis? Why hasn't he uploaded it to wikileaks for instance? Or torrented it? Top 10 Reasons Snowden hasn't published his documents: 10. Wiki what? 9. Unaware of statute of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/9/2013 6:52 PM, Crypto wrote: Excellent! I [love] it! Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 10/9/2013 5:32 PM, Juan Garofalo wrote: Why hasn't Snowden published all the stuff he got from the NSA nazis? Why hasn't he uploaded it to wikileaks for instance? Or torrented

Re: [tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/9/2013 8:00 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 13-10-09 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: After manually adding prefs.js entries in 3.0a4, that were suggested on Tor project Trac to make it work, there's no change in being unable to connect to Startpage, Ixquick, DDG; often even Wikipedia -SSL

Re: [tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

2013-10-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/10/2013 5:11 AM, Alex wrote: Orbot/orweb combination (android devices) does not seem to have any issues. Thanks. Good to know. I'm using Windows desktop laptop. Am 10. Oktober 2013 05:59:15 schrieb Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com: On 10/9/2013 8:00 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 13

Re: [tor-talk] Troubleshooting failed Startpage connection [Was: still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick]

2013-10-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/9/2013 10:59 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 10/9/2013 8:00 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 13-10-09 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... in 3.0a4, ... there's no change in being unable to connect to Startpage, Ixquick, DDG; often even Wikipedia -SSL Google. in regular Fx, can connect to all

Re: [tor-talk] Failed Startpage connection problem found_need solution [Was: still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick]

2013-10-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/10/2013 11:26 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I assume? most users of WINDOWS TBB 2.3.25-12/13 that have read of my problem, have recently tried Startpage, Ixquick, DDG - not really having any issues? Would Tor message log posted here have anything useful that more experienced users may spot

Re: [tor-talk] Failed Startpage connection problem found_need solution [Was: still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick]

2013-10-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
02:10 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: * Don't want to whitelist (not monitor) *ALL* TBB activity in KIS - takes away all protection. Au contraire, why allowing any security or other software access to Tor communications? You are effectively sending Kaspersky corporation your data and metadata with your IP

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
The staged release may be a good idea, but have they got the timing right? this article is dated June 6 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order that was 4 months ago. How many articles have they published since then? Actually, if the assumption is

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/11/2013 1:41 PM, mick wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:51:24 + Matt Pagan m...@pagan.io allegedly wrote: Hi Matt No problem. However, whilst we do have the beginnings of very intrusive network censorship in the UK (some ISPs are more pliable than others... ...you could equally say

Re: [tor-talk] Final report (maybe) on problems connecting to SSL search engines [Was: still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick]

2013-10-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/10/2013 1:10 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 10/10/2013 11:26 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I assume? most users of WINDOWS TBB 2.3.25-12/13 that have read of my problem, have recently tried Startpage, Ixquick, DDG - not really having any issues? Would Tor message log posted here have anything

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 9th, 2013

2013-10-12 Thread Joe Btfsplk
the kettle of the same thing. On 10/12/2013 10:09 AM, Luther Blissett wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:43 -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: The staged release may be a good idea, but have they got the timing right? this article is dated June 6 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone

[tor-talk] fingerprinting implications_changing TBB font or font size?

2013-10-12 Thread Joe Btfsplk
I'm not a national whistle blower or spy (for now - gov't shut down), but I'm interested in the implication of changing font or size in TBB, in Options Fonts Colors Advanced. The default in my language package is Times New Roman. The default (serif) size for that font (16?), plus NO

Re: [tor-talk] What are some free and private email providers?

2013-10-12 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/12/2013 1:48 PM, Antispam 06 wrote: On 24.05.2013 00:50, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 23.05.2013 22:23, Nathan Suchy wrote: I'm looking for email providers with decent support, a good amount of storage, and that protect your privacy. Do you know any? In the end, for plaintext email, you

Re: [tor-talk] What are some free and private email providers?

2013-10-12 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/12/2013 3:52 PM, Edgar S wrote: I was also left hanging when tormail shut down. I've found one that meets my needs. Based in Switzerland. It is Tor-friendly for both signups and webmail. Has both an onion hidden address, http://bitmailendavkbec.onion, and an open address, bitmessage.ch.

Re: [tor-talk] What are some free and private email providers?

2013-10-13 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/12/2013 8:30 PM, Johnny Carson wrote: Joe Btfsplk: I guess you went thru part of the signup process to see it assigns a random string as your acct username / email address? It told me the registration was having problems. How long was the random assigned name? That'd be a bit tough

Re: [tor-talk] What are some free and private email providers?

2013-10-13 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/13/2013 3:35 PM, Johnny Carson wrote: I was thinking about this to get around IP blocks on Tor exit nodes: My computer (SSL) Thunderbird + Torbridy Tor (not using hidden service to bitmessage.ch) Internet VPN Internet Bitmessage.ch Internet Recipient Not sure if that's possible

Re: [tor-talk] New paper : Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries

2013-10-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/16/2013 4:50 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:10:56PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: Yep. They're part of the Tor research community. I have plans for writing a blog post about the paper, to explain what it means, what it doesn't mean, what we should do about it,

Re: [tor-talk] The NSA's problem? Too much data?

2013-10-20 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Antispam 06 wrote: On 20.10.2013 20:41, Anonymous wrote: I'm using an Finland provider 'cuz their law does not allow any other agentcy or anything like that to gain access to your files so easilly. That's so cute! Can you point out some time a spy agency was brought in

[tor-talk] TBB prefs_prompt to sanitize on shutdown?

2013-10-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
May be mistaken, but I thought the 1st pref below (included in TBB by default) was to bring back the old Fx 3.x, clear private data prefs, much like using the extension, AskForSanitize does. These are default values in TBB (I think): user_pref(privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs, true);

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 23th, 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/23/2013 8:04 AM, Lunar wrote: Tor Weekly News October 23th, 2013 “some circuits are going to be compromised, but it’s better to increase your probability of having no compromised circuits at the expense of also _INCREASING THE PROPORTION_ of your

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 23th, 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2013-10-24 10:26, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 10/23/2013 8:04 AM, Lunar wrote: Tor Weekly News October 23th, 2013 “some circuits are going to be compromised, but it’s better to increase your probability of having no compromised circuits at the expense of also

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 23th, 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/24/2013 2:57 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: It looks like you grossly misunderstand how Tor works. The only node that can see your browser fingerprint is the exit node. The problem that Entry Guards are meant to solve is laid out in the very first paragraph of the FAQ you linked: Tor (like

[tor-talk] Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites

2013-11-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Weeks ago I reported problems accessing https Ixquick / Startpage search sites in TBB 2.3.25-12, then *-13 and 2.4.x; then saw it was most (or all) sites using port 443. Traced it to some issue with Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 (KIS) its scan encrypted connections feature, though never

Re: [tor-talk] Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites

2013-11-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/2/2013 6:08 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: What kind of protection do you expect from this, anyway? Wow, I don't know. Having a rough night / day? Could be a weird KIS bug affecting TBB, *that stopping / restarting KIS* somehow fixes it temporarily (consistently). That'd be fairly unusual.

Re: [tor-talk] Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites

2013-11-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/2/2013 9:15 AM, freek2...@yahoo.de wrote: Do you use the manual mode if KIS? I also tried that feature, but intransparently catching server certificates definitely messed with my system. This function is imho snakeoil of the highest quality. (Except you use an insecure browser and have

Re: [tor-talk] Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites

2013-11-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/2/2013 11:16 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 11/02/2013 02:27 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Don't expect too much help here [from Moritz]. Well, not from some, anyway. LOL :) Hey hey, no reason to become hostile. I wrote the mail, which I consider help. Help in making you understand why nobody

Re: [tor-talk] Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites

2013-11-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/2/2013 2:04 PM, Sukhoi wrote: I am experimenting problems with TorBrowser on the last months. On most of the web sites I have to reload it 2 to 8 times until it loads, receiving most of the times messages like this: Unable to connect Firefox can't

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 2.3 sometimes doesn't open pages 1st try (was: Kaspersky still interferes with SSL port 443 sites)

2013-11-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/6/2013 5:51 PM, Sukhoi wrote: On 05/11/2013 15:32, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 11/2/2013 2:04 PM, Sukhoi wrote: I am experimenting problems with TorBrowser on the last months. On most of the web sites I have to reload it 2 to 8 times until it loads, receiving most of the times messages like

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 2:12 PM, Akater wrote: Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea Am I missing something? Yes, from what I've seen reported several times on this list, you're missing that even being approached or brought in for questioning by LEAs, threatened by

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 3:14 PM, Akater wrote: The German guy was released, right? A couple more precendents, and police will stop raids like this one due to inefficiency. Because, ultimately, they /are/ inefficient, and all Tor community needs to do is to make it as clear to general public as possible.

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 4:53 PM, Akater wrote: And, criminals do use Tor, at times. Criminals do use guns at times. Does it mean gov't can harrass you if you own one, too? They can do harass anyone, for anything, that they want to. They know how far they can take it (sometimes, that's PRETTY far).

Re: [tor-talk] Are project change logs online?

2013-11-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 9:05 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 07:58:09PM -0500, gq wrote: I know change logs are included in packages but are they viewable online anywhere? Or do you have to download and extract/install the full package to see them? Go to

Re: [tor-talk] Are project change logs online?

2013-11-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/11/2013 9:53 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 11/10/2013 9:05 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 07:58:09PM -0500, gq wrote: I know change logs are included in packages but are they viewable online

Re: [tor-talk] SimpleMail

2013-11-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/14/2013 5:27 PM, Missouri Anglers wrote: Has the security of Simple Mail been discussed yet? If so, can someone tell me where I can find the past discussions? If not, Simple Mail is a mail client add on for Firefox. It allows you to get notified, read and write messages for multiple

Re: [tor-talk] New to TOR

2013-11-17 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Unless you have *permanently* static IP address, you can force a new address, by: rebooting your modem / gateway; or accessing modem's EWS (GUI) there's almost always an option to disconnect / reconnect to the ISP, causing a new IP to be assigned. I'd wait just a bit, to sign up w/ a new

[tor-talk] TBB 2.4.x Windows using more CPU than normal

2013-11-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Anyone noticed since starting to use Windows - TBB 2.4.x series, it using more CPU when loading pages than it used to? Even more than regular Fx. I've noticed this across 2 of the 2.4.x series versions. Haven't updated to latest - released couple days ago, yet. TBB 2.4 also seems to load

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail account without phone number

2013-11-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/19/2013 3:39 PM, Yo Mamma wrote: Hi, I have been reading on this mailing list that it is not possible to create a Gmail account without a phone number. I have just created such an account (this one). I was curious if this is a change on Gmail's part or if the conditions of my sign up were

Re: [tor-talk] StrictExitNodes deprecated?

2013-11-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/23/2013 2:16 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 07:42:23AM +0200, Sherief Alaa wrote: I just see the options StrictExitNodes and StrictEntryNodes is deprecated? The correct syntax is: EntryNodes {node, node, ...} StrictNodes 0 or 1 #0 for disabled No, you should not

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail account without phone number

2013-11-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/24/2013 8:54 PM, Yo Mamma wrote: Hi Joe, I'll clarify the auto-login: After sign up it logged me in with the credentials I had just created. Why would it use cookies from a previous, different account login, to log in to this new account? Wouldn't that be a security hole? Dunno. Haven't

Re: [tor-talk] StrictExitNodes deprecated?

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/23/2013 3:04 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 11/23/2013 2:16 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 07:42:23AM +0200, Sherief Alaa wrote: I just see the options StrictExitNodes and StrictEntryNodes is deprecated? The correct syntax is: EntryNodes {node, node, ...} StrictNodes 0

Re: [tor-talk] StrictExitNodes deprecated?

2013-11-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/25/2013 7:14 AM, Leo Unglaub wrote: the solution is simple. DONT USE THOSE FUCKED UP SERVICES. Use email providers that allow an authentication from anywhere like every provider is supposed to do. Greetings Leo It's not only F'g email that won't allow from some *-stan or African

Re: [tor-talk] Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself

2013-11-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/29/2013 10:47 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/521856/group-thinks-anonymity-should-be-baked-into-the-internet-itself/ Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Good one. Not aimed at anyone, but along same line of thought - with about as

Re: [tor-talk] tor mention in newle released snowden documents

2013-11-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/30/2013 2:30 PM, Rejo Zenger wrote: See: http://issuu.com/pimvandendool/docs/document03. New document, (really) briefly mentioning the efforts of the Dutch intelligence services identifying Tor-users. Attempts are made by hacking into servers running fora, obtaining the logfiles,

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
As TBB is a standard product, its fingerprint should be the same for everyone. Tell that to the guy that got arrested on campus, because he was one of a few people using it. People talk a good game in an armchair quarterback sort of way - if he'd only... Unless they're seasoned veterans at

Re: [tor-talk] Forensics on Tor

2014-01-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/23/2014 5:12 PM, Mirimir wrote: I wouldn't run VMs on Windows with any expectation of privacy. Only a year or so ago, shellbags were not common knowledge. Only the forensic community and hard-core black hat types knew about them. It's arguable that many similar features in Windows remain

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/25/2014 7:33 AM, Katya Titov wrote: TT Security: 1. So Network Map and New Identity are absent now. When these functions will be add to the TBB? Vidalia is now a stand-alone package. Details: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WhereDidVidaliaGo If TBB is leaving Vidalia for a better ?

[tor-talk] TBB 3.5 starts w/ size buttons hidden

2014-01-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
TBB 3.5 for Win is starting in half screen the UI sizing buttons are hidden because the TBB UI is shifted where the size buttons are off the monitor. So is most of the title bar, making it hard to drag the UI down to reach buttons. Once maximized, it fits fine on the monitor. Finally got it

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.5 starts w/ size buttons hidden

2014-01-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
2014-01-26 Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com TBB 3.5 for Win is starting in half screen the UI sizing buttons are hidden because the TBB UI is shifted where the size buttons are off the monitor. So is most of the title bar, making it hard to drag the UI down to reach buttons. Once maximized

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/25/2014 5:07 PM, Lunar wrote: Joe Btfsplk: I missed the memo on all reasons why Vidalia - bad, Tor Launcher - good. At least: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/papers/2007_soups.pdf http://petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-1-usability.pdf and Vidalia has no maintainers

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.5 starts w/ size buttons hidden

2014-01-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Nils wrote: You can use the windows key + an arrow key to resize and move windows. DOESN'T work on my machine in Vista x64 (for any app). No effect. Maybe some Windows option turned off? On 1/26/2014 12:56 AM, Lars Luthman wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 21:37 -0600, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Re

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/26/2014 11:33 AM, Andrew F wrote: YIKES... Are you sure, how did this slip by? On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Mike Cardwell t...@lists.grepular.comwrote: I just blogged about a general security issue in Thunderbird which may also affect people who are using Tor:

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/26/2014 1:15 PM, Al Billings wrote: Assuming we’re talking about people opening web pages in TB tabs, that normally can only happen if someone installs Thunderbrowse or a similar extension. By default, TB doesn’t render web pages. I thought the same thing. I'm pretty sure I've had links

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/26/2014 10:03 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 01/26/2014 08:42 PM, Al Billings wrote: What is the bug number? https://grepular.com/Security_Bug_Thunderbird_Websites_Tabs The bugzilla report is currently locked from being viewed, but for when it becomes unlocked, here it is: bug 700979

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.5 starts w/ size buttons hidden

2014-01-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/27/2014 3:41 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: TBB 3.5 for Win is starting in half screen the UI sizing buttons are hidden because the TBB UI is shifted where the size buttons are off the monitor. So is most of the title bar, making it hard to drag the UI down to reach buttons. Once

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/26/2014 7:14 PM, Al Jigong Billings wrote: Like I said, Thunderbird doesn't allow for pages to open in tabs without an extension. So., if you have reliable repro steps, it is a bug that should be fixed and I can push on it to get it addressed. Unless I can get one of the specially crafted

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/27/2014 9:02 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: At this time, using Vidalia is the only way to change exit nodes without losing all your tabs, or to see which exit node is misbehaving. It would be really useful to be able to change exit nodes without Vidalia, even if this function is hidden

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/28/2014 4:34 AM, Rick wrote: On 01/27/2014 10:49 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 1/27/2014 9:02 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: At this time, using Vidalia is the only way to change exit nodes without losing all your tabs, or to see which exit node is misbehaving. It would be really useful to be able

[tor-talk] TBB font size concern for many users

2014-01-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
People having excellent sight naturally don't think about reading small print books or web pages. But a lot of the general population has a problem with this. Because of possible browser fingerprinting issues / or anonymity leaks, TBB users are discouraged from - changing default settings in

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/29/2014 7:05 AM, Kristov Atlas wrote: Then the button should read change exit node and not new identity, no? On Jan 27, 2014, at 22:02, Michael Wolf mikewol...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/26/2014 5:57 AM, Lunar wrote: Katya Titov: New Identity works from both TBB and Vidalia. The difference

Re: [tor-talk] NoScript for TOR disabled by default

2014-01-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/30/2014 9:22 AM, Sukhoi wrote: In fact, I am worried with the Wireless Position System developed by google and others, and the introduction in the browsers, like firefox, a way to track which wireless networks the computer can see in a given moment. Based on that they identify the user

Re: [tor-talk] NoScript for TOR disabled by default

2014-01-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/31/2014 8:00 AM, Olivier Cornu wrote: Le 31/01/2014 01:18, Joe Btfsplk a écrit : On 1/30/2014 9:22 AM, Sukhoi wrote: In fact, I am worried with the Wireless Position System developed by google and others, and the introduction in the browsers, like firefox, a way to track which wireless

Re: [tor-talk] TBB font size concern for many users

2014-01-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
test sites would show that. If not, it appears that changing font name size under Options Content to increase small text, provides LESS browser characteristics than using Ctrl + mouse scroll to zoom screen size. On 1/29/2014 10:31 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: People having excellent sight

Re: [tor-talk] TBB font size concern for many users

2014-01-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/31/2014 11:24 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 01/31/2014 04:32 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Is it known that sites CAN detect selected TBB *browser* font names sizes? See 4.6.4 in the Tor Browser design document: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#fingerprinting-linkability

[tor-talk] Tor-Talk now a social site?

2014-02-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Should Tor-talk change names to something like Torbook.com or Tor-match.com? Tor-talk possibly ? should not be used to plan dinner dates such, that has NOTHING to do w/ Tor, anonymity, privacy, computer safety, internet news practices nor even tongue in cheek comments specifically ABOUT

Re: [tor-talk] TBB: Can not set back to Never remember history

2014-02-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/4/2014 3:02 PM, David Balažic wrote: I use TBB 3.5.1 (win32) Trying to delete some specific cookies, in the preferences I selected Remember History on the Privacy tabs, to gain access to the Show cookies button. Unexpectedly that required a restart of TBB. As that wiped out all cookies

Re: [tor-talk] TBB: Can not set back to Never remember history

2014-02-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/5/2014 4:36 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 February 2014 06:44, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 2/4/2014 3:02 PM, David Balažic wrote: I use TBB 3.5.1 (win32) Trying to delete some specific cookies, in the preferences I selected Remember History on the Privacy tabs, to gain access

Re: [tor-talk] TBB: Can not set back to Never remember history

2014-02-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6 February 2014 04:03, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: You don't have any (non-default) extensions or plugins? Sometimes they mess w/ things. Other than that one change, did you make any others? Wondering if a file got corrupted? One easy thing is just reinstall TBB. Erase old files

Re: [tor-talk] TBB: Can not set back to Never remember history

2014-02-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/6/2014 6:21 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Other than checking some sites looking at the cookies file (using an editor) to see if it is / isn't allowing any cookies - of any type, we have no way of knowing if this is just a UI bug, or if settings really get messed up internally. Can others

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] My solution to Tor Browser remember password bug

2014-02-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/28/2014 11:25 AM, Edgar S wrote: I've complained here before that the remember password feature in some long previous versions of Tor Browser no longer works. I've accepted it will likely never come back. So I've found the following solution. Maybe it will also work for others, discussion

[tor-talk] Unseen.is login page blocked in TBB

2014-03-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On https://Unseen.is, the page(s) that would normally come after entering user name PW is blocked. Instead, submitting login data page refreshes, I just see a blank web page w/ a throbber in middle of page. Same thing happens when creating a free acct - at top of page at address in above

[tor-talk] TorBrowser spoofed screen size?

2014-03-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
I'm sure I recently checked what screen size TBB (Windows) was giving out. Which ever version I checked it in, test sites did NOT show my actual monitor size. Now, in TBB 3.5.2, my actual screen size seems to show on several browser test sites. Even extracted TBB again, into clean folder

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser spoofed screen size?

2014-03-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/5/2014 7:52 PM, Soul Plane wrote: I tried TBB 3.5.2 in Windows XP at 120 dpi and browserspy says I'm at 96. Yes, that's screen resolution, or just resolution. It's of some significance, but it's not the same as screen (or monitor) size. Screen size is what I meant (like 1280 x 720, etc.).

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser spoofed screen size?

2014-03-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/6/2014 1:59 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: But, EVEN WHEN I reset my system to 96 DPI, reboot - TBB still shows a weird value - like 1920 x *933* (just an example). NO one has a screen size w/ those odd numbers. That's the issue. Yes, they should be a multiple of 200 x 100

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser spoofed screen size?

2014-03-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
/2014 8:21 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 3/6/2014 1:59 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: But, EVEN WHEN I reset my system to 96 DPI, reboot - TBB still shows a weird value - like 1920 x *933* (just an example). NO one has a screen size w/ those odd numbers. That's the issue. Yes, they should

[tor-talk] configure Vidalia stand alone

2014-03-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
The only comments I've seen about using Vidalia 0.2.21 - Win (the stand alone package) w/ TBB 3.5.x, to see the map connections, is just install / extract it to its own folder start it after TBB is already running. Like falling off a log? That doesn't work for me. Perhaps because I don't

Re: [tor-talk] TLS/SSL SMTP MitM

2014-03-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/10/2014 1:43 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi there, I have been doing some testing of sending email over Tor and today ran into a definite BadExit (but not flagged, clearly) because there was a blatant MitM attempt on three separate occasions

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