Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2014-03-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
It probably won't allow 2 instances of Firefox (TBB) running at once. You may be able to use the stand alone profile mgr for Firefox https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Profile_Manager You'd have to add an entry in the profile mgr, to the location of TBB (firefox.exe). So you can

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2014-03-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/14/2014 4:57 PM, muhammed gokce wrote: And how do I create in torbrowser different profiles, I still don't understand it.. Please go to the MDN (mozilla) link I gave. Like anything, there's some reading on how to use the profile manager, but it's child's play compared to using a

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2014-03-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
volgende geschreven: And how do I create in torbrowser different profiles, I still don't understand it.. Op 14 mrt. 2014 om 18:11 heeft Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com het volgende geschreven: It probably won't allow 2 instances of Firefox (TBB) running at once. You may be able to use

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2014-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/20/2014 12:47 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: Joe Btfsplk: 1) I doubt you'll be able to run 1 instance of TBB - at once - if that's part of what you want. Others can correct me, if wrong. This is possible. Simpler since TBB 3.x. Although undocumented. Bits can be found here: - https

Re: [tor-talk] Lots of tor relays send out sequential IP IDs; please fix that!

2014-03-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/31/2014 4:12 PM, Jann Horn wrote: Well, the subject line pretty much says it all: Lots of Tor relays send out globally sequential IP IDs, which, as far as I know, allows a remote party to measure how fast the relay is sending out IP packets with high precision, possibly making statistical

[tor-talk] torbutton icon disappeared

2014-04-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
I noticed the Torbuttion icon - to the L of address / URL box, disappeared sometime after last getting a new identity via Torbutton. Other than reinstalling the browser, any ideas how to get the icon back (even if I have to hack a file, like w/ resource hacker, etc)? Not sure if it

Re: [tor-talk] torbutton icon disappeared

2014-04-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/5/2014 4:20 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I noticed the Torbuttion icon - to the L of address / URL box, disappeared sometime after last getting a new identity via Torbutton. Other than reinstalling the browser, any ideas how to get the icon back (even if I have to hack a file, like w/ resource

Re: [tor-talk] torbutton icon disappeared

2014-04-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/6/2014 6:45 PM, Gerardus Hendricks wrote: On 4/5/14 11:20 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Other than reinstalling the browser, any ideas how to get the icon back (even if I have to hack a file, like w/ resource hacker, etc)? Go to View - Toolbars - Customize and drag it back onto the toolbar

Re: [tor-talk] [cryptography] The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

2014-04-08 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/7/2014 6:14 PM, grarpamp wrote: http://heartbleed.com/ The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.5.4 says I should upgrade

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/9/2014 4:52 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:32:08AM +, antispa...@sent.at wrote: I downloaded the right archive and overwrote the existing folder (3.5.3). Restarted and the yellow triangle is still there. On the upper right corner it's written 3.5.4, yet the

Re: [tor-talk] [cryptography] The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/8/2014 5:24 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 4/8/2014 4:25 PM, grarpamp wrote: https://blog.torproject.org/ covers what to do for Tor things. For everything else on the net, fix the clients and servers you're responsible for. Then... You're right, there's a big gotcha in all this, users won't

Re: [tor-talk] [cryptography] The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/9/2014 12:36 PM, Andrew F wrote: Would be interesting if someone created an app to test for the problem and then published which big websites are slow to upgrade. that would certainly be good for consumers. Well, one website sorta has. They seem to have more extensive testing for overall

Re: [tor-talk] strange behavior of Tor Browser on Windows 8.1

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/9/2014 11:21 AM, s...@sky-ip.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I have upgraded to latest Tor Browser Bundle version: 3.5.4 - Windows 32 bit. My operating system is Windows 8.1 Pro Enterprise, 64 bit. The odd things i have noticed (which didn't happen in

Re: [tor-talk] [cryptography] The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

2014-04-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/9/2014 1:29 PM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: It seems no one wants to talk or hear about this issue. It is not being reported on media sites or anywhere else, other than the Heartbleed site, and the OpenSSL lists It's all over the internet, when I look in Ixquick / Startpage. Possible

Re: [tor-talk] Private keys at risk due to HeartBleed: Are we sure?

2014-04-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/10/2014 3:16 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Hi, are we really sure that the private keys are being compromised due to the heartbleed attack? I see many people upgrading, that's OK, but then i see many people changing private keys. I read here that's very unlikley that a private key

Re: [tor-talk] Heartbleed and TOR

2014-04-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/10/2014 3:44 PM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: Since I am neither an expert on OpenSSL nor TOR, let's get one question out of the way before anything further is said on the topic: Does TOR actually use potentially vulnerable versions of OpenSSL (or use it at all, for that matter)? Should

Re: [tor-talk] US ip address

2014-04-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/23/2014 10:48 AM, s...@sky-ip.org wrote: On 4/23/2014 5:58 PM, Ted Jackson wrote: I would like to change to an US Ip address when I want to? possible? You can set a static exit node in your torrc but that is not recommended at all as it will have impact on your anonymity. Follow up to

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/18/2014 9:54 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: And your intuition might be (mine was) that removing those small relays really harms diversity (and thus anonymity), but actually, Tor's load balancing and path selection means those relays are very rarely chosen anyway, so they don't contribute

Re: [tor-talk] General questions about Tor proxy

2014-05-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/19/2014 1:26 PM, Akater wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some people think the only valid / conceivable form of community / comms on the net are 'forums'. Well, they're free to set one up. No pro-forum argument, but one can see why someone would prefer forums to

Re: [tor-talk] EFF Who Has Your Back report

2014-05-21 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/21/2014 7:41 AM, krishna e bera wrote: A recent EFF report [0] purports to show that many companies are becoming more proactive in defence of internet users' privacy. It rates companies on how well they protect data from government requests. This makes some of these companies *such as

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47

2014-05-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/26/2014 2:15 PM, Charles Thomas wrote: For me, running the most recent version of TBB on Ubuntu 14.04, I can stream videos from Youtube fine. I just have to temporarily allow all the page then refresh, then repeat again. It streams, slowly, but it does stream. On 05/26/2014 05:00 AM,

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47

2014-05-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/27/2014 2:10 AM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: Le 26/05/2014 22:24, Joe Btfsplk a écrit : I haven't done testing to see what identifying data might be revealed (if any) by this, but for Youtube ( some others), if you copy the vid URL, even though Flash isn't active, then paste into VLC, SMPlayer

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47

2014-05-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/27/2014 12:34 PM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: Le 27/05/2014 16:45, Joe Btfsplk a écrit : I assume those settings would keep VLC inside Tor network Yes, unless VLC fails to proxy everything to the socks proxy , but haven't confirmed it. VLC devs would know. If it doesn't, it's probably a bug

Re: [tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47

2014-05-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/27/2014 1:02 PM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: Correction: I had something else open during the test, apparently VLC does proxy correctly the requests. OK, good to know. I may ask on VLC forum if others have checked this, just to get feedback - though I doubt a large % use it like that. --

Re: [tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

2014-05-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/29/2014 8:18 PM, grarpamp wrote: Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree to this' ? What new legal groupthink bs is behind this? I don't use gobble, but I've noticed a few

Re: [tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

2014-05-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/30/2014 2:11 AM, Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:40:24PM -0400, Michael Wolf wrote: Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree to this' ? What new legal

Re: [tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

2014-05-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/30/2014 12:58 PM, Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:32:15AM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Myself and a few other people have been slowly building an Adblock filter list to remove these cookie warnings from sites for about 2 years now: That's good, but how will blocking

Re: [tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

2014-06-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/2/2014 1:49 PM, SecTech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The TBB with TorButton has the ability to delete all cookies. Than the site can't track you, but you can enable first party cookies. SecTech AFAIK, Torbutton doesn't have the ability to delete 1st party

Re: [tor-talk] Ad Blocking Software

2014-06-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/10/2014 2:27 PM, Antonio Z wrote: I did not think that Adblock was trustable considering how an extension can bypass Tor. Good question. I've never sniffed ABP activities to see what it does when installed in TBB. From memory, it shouldn't be phoning home, except to get updates. Don't

Re: [tor-talk] Ad Blocking Software

2014-06-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/11/2014 12:50 AM, Mirimir wrote: Yes indeed. So why doesn't TBB include AdBlock? In my experience, unlike NoScript, AdBlock Plus rarely breaks sites. Reductions in site loading time are dramatic. And then there's the privacy benefit. The reason given in the past by Tor Project leaders,

Re: [tor-talk] Craigslist now giving Tor the slows, lol

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 12:51 AM, grarpamp wrote: If other sites are loading similarly slow it may be possible to find out why or what is being used to do it. *CL never replies to support queries.* I have found answers to Craigslist issues on their users forum - sometimes direct replies to my post. The

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 2:21 AM, Sebastian G. bastik.tor wrote: Andrew wrote: # Highlights (...) - Looked into legality of receiving a large financial donation from a country on the US Treasury embargoed list. Unsurprisingly, we cannot accept such a donation due to the source. That has to be a

Re: [tor-talk] Sending email from Tor browser

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 4:30 AM, Chen Cecilia Zhang wrote: Thanks for the reply. I meant doing everything through Tor browser write an email but set the sending date as 1 month later. Then closed the Tor browser. Just wonder if the email send automatically by itself 1 month later, the IP is still

Re: [tor-talk] Sending email from Tor browser

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 6:33 AM, Chen Cecilia Zhang wrote: and the strange thing is : I tried to test the email sending from Tor and without Tor browser, and the IP address shows in the original email from gmail are the same Will anyone help explain how come? thansks On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:22 AM,

Re: [tor-talk] Sending email from Tor browser

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 12:32 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 06/14/2014 01:33 PM, Chen Cecilia Zhang wrote: and the strange thing is : I tried to test the email sending from Tor and without Tor browser, and the IP address shows in the original email from gmail are the same How would you think Gmail (as

Re: [tor-talk] Craigslist now giving Tor the slows, lol

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 5:07 PM, grarpamp wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: I have found answers to Craigslist issues on their users forum - sometimes direct replies to my post. The more technical aspects of this issue may be beyond many users' knowledge

Re: [tor-talk] Sending email from Tor browser

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 4:26 PM, grarpamp wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: Using webmail vs. an email client (like Thunderbird) may not be as convenient, but eliminating the client means one less thing that could possibly compromise anonymity. First

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 5:50 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 14-06-14 01:00 PM, Collin Anderson wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: I'm not a legal or embargo rules expert, but I wonder if an embargoed country or individuals in it, giving money to a non-profit

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 7:56 PM, Mirimir wrote: On 06/14/2014 06:29 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: SNIP It's OK for an organization dedicated to providing anonymity to protect users - everywhere, in no small part from various gov't agencies, to take major funding from... a gov't agency. Yet, that organization

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/14/2014 10:40 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On 06/14/2014 03:21 AM, Sebastian G. bastik.tor wrote: That has to be a violation of your rights. It's the law in the USA. Regardless of how one feels about it, it's currently against the law. The citizen resided in a country as listed as a State

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-15 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/15/2014 2:08 PM, Mirimir wrote: The law is the law, and (acting openly) the choices are compliance, or noncompliance on principle. But see above. No, the law is often temporary, until someone has the guts to stand up (100's, maybe 1000's of times, in the last 150 yrs, in U.S. alone). This

[tor-talk] Flash executables keep starting in background when using TBB

2014-06-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
In at least the last couple TBB versions, or longer, I've found FlashPlayerPlugin_x.x.exe (latest *13_0_0_214.exe) running in background - numerous times. Actually, 2 instances of flash exe files are always shown running. Biggest question is, what is Flash doing to Tor anonymity in these

Re: [tor-talk] Flash executables keep starting in background when using TBB

2014-06-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/16/2014 7:02 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 14-06-16 03:17 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: In at least the last couple TBB versions, or longer, I've found FlashPlayerPlugin_x.x.exe (latest *13_0_0_214.exe) running in background - numerous times. Actually, 2 instances of flash exe files are always

Re: [tor-talk] Flash executables keep starting in background when using TBB

2014-06-17 Thread Joe Btfsplk
, or if determine if TBB, or Flash, is calling the 2 files to start? Even though _no Flash vids are ever played_. Below - Some additional replies to previous comments. On 6/16/2014 7:38 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 6/16/2014 7:02 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 14-06-16 03:17 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: In at least

Re: [tor-talk] Flash executables keep starting in background when using TBB

2014-06-17 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/17/2014 12:33 PM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I'd still really like some help on finding what calls / causes the 2 flash .exe files to start in background. They're ALWAYS shown by Process Explorer, in the *same process tree - directly

Re: [tor-talk] Presentation material in LaTeX

2014-06-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/18/2014 1:44 PM, Sebastian G. bastik.tor wrote: 17.06.2014 23:56, fr33tux: Hello, We (jvoisin [1] and me) recently made a presentation about TOR for our school (the UTBM, a french engineering school). There were almost 50 people, and the feedbacks are very positive. The presentation was

Re: [tor-talk] Flash executables keep starting in background when using TBB

2014-06-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/18/2014 1:03 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: Are you saying you have Flash processes running under Fx (not TBB)? 1) Did you use Flash player in Fx, that would have started them, or do you not know what started them? /It was started after visiting https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html and

Re: [tor-talk] Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in TorBrowser?

2014-06-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
19/06/2014 18:15, Joe Btfsplk a écrit : Curious: Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in Tor Browser 3.6.x, when other forms of disk storage are disabled? If so, why is that? Thanks. I'm sure many would enjoy hearing from those directly involved w/ TorBrowser, or that consider

Re: [tor-talk] Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in TorBrowser?

2014-06-19 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/19/2014 1:51 PM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: Curious: Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in Tor Browser 3.6.x, when other forms of disk storage are disabled? DOM Storage in Tor Browser does not save state to disc. And it is bound to the URL bar domain (see design

Re: [tor-talk] Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in TorBrowser?

2014-06-20 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/19/2014 1:51 PM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: Curious: Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in Tor Browser 3.6.x, when other forms of disk storage are disabled? DOM Storage in Tor Browser does not save state to disc. And it is bound to the URL bar domain (see design

Re: [tor-talk] Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in TorBrowser?

2014-06-20 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/20/2014 9:04 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 6/19/2014 1:51 PM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: Curious: Should DOM storage really be enabled by default in Tor Browser 3.6.x, when other forms of disk storage are disabled? DOM Storage in Tor Browser does not save state to disc

Re: [tor-talk] Importance of individual useragent items

2014-06-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/23/2014 2:57 PM, Jeremy Rand wrote: On 06/23/2014 12:11 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I noticed there are at least 2 different references in Torbrowser for useragent over ride strings. The Panopticlick site picks up this one: /Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/25/2014 3:28 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: I have been examining the number of what would normally be deemed as illegal sites sites on Tor. Eliminating the narcotics trade, as these tend to be intelligence agency backed enterprises, a serious decline has been noted across the board. This

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/25/2014 4:56 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: Basically, I keep a track of site numbers year-on-year, site availability from 3rd party monitoring and read comments on forums and chat. From what I can gather, most of these sites were suspected of being honeypots due to their tendency to remove

Re: [tor-talk] Downloading Programs with TBB - dangerous???

2014-06-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/26/2014 1:34 PM, Bobby Brewster wrote: /Let's say I download a PDF with Tor. I get the warning that I might download it outside Tor./ That used to be the norm, but I believe the message was changed in later TB versions. Which version are you using? I'm not sure I've seen that warning

Re: [tor-talk] Bad Exit Nodes.

2014-06-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/27/2014 6:26 AM, Bobby Brewster wrote: /What is to stop someone from setting up an exit node and a) sniffing all traffic or specifically non-SSL usernames and passwords and b) using SSLStrip to access SSL usernames and passwords?/ Nothing, if they're not encrypted. Common precaution is

[tor-talk] hardware acceleration OK or not?

2014-06-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Hardware acceleration is unchecked by default it Torbrowser. Other than some machines might not support it, is there a reason not to enabled it? Some fingerprinting or other issue? The dev manual (stable) just has this to say: */HardwareAccel* *0*|*1* If non-zero, try to use built-in

Re: [tor-talk] hardware acceleration OK or not?

2014-06-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/28/2014 4:54 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:27:50PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Hardware acceleration is unchecked by default it Torbrowser. Other than some machines might not support it, is there a reason not to enabled it? Some fingerprinting or other issue

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia as stand-alone client???

2014-06-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/28/2014 2:16 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:30:19AM -0700, Bobby Brewster wrote: However, I'm wondering if this is the best way or is Vidalia now deprecated? It is now deprecated. It has been unsupported for years. :(

Re: [tor-talk] Bruce Schneier's Guardian Article about N_S_A and Tor.

2014-06-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/28/2014 6:36 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote: williamwin...@openmailbox.org writes: I don't understand what Schneier means by this: After identifying an individual Tor user on the internet, the NSA uses its network of secret internet servers to redirect those users to another set of secret

Re: [tor-talk] Waiting for a new exit node

2014-06-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/29/2014 2:56 AM, C B wrote: It is really pretty annoying to be surfing along and suddenly get a Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server message. Right now I am stuck on 188.226.249.138 as I have been many times before. In ten minutes I will be re-assigned a

Re: [tor-talk] Bruce Schneier's Guardian Article about N_S_A and Tor.

2014-06-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 6/29/2014 1:22 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:38:05PM +, williamwin...@openmailbox.org wrote: I don't understand what Schneier means by this: After identifying an individual Tor user on the internet, the NSA uses its network of secret internet servers to

Re: [tor-talk] Fw: confirm [whatever]

2014-07-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/1/2014 3:41 PM, Bobby Brewster wrote: /What does this mean? Excessive bounces?/ --- On Mon, 6/30/14, tor-talk-requ...@lists.torproject.org tor-talk-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: /As a reminder, your membership password is sxxx /If you have any questions or problems,

Re: [tor-talk] Liability to Prosecution for Operating Tor Nodes in Austria

2014-07-01 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/1/2014 6:35 PM, flapflap wrote: Hi, FYI (both only in German): https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-my-concern/ (via https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=ad4dd623) (I'm not familiar with the language of law, just try to summarize it to inform you; maybe someone else could

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 11:10 AM, Michael O Holstein wrote: That is nonsense. Why not arrest the owners of a stainless steel blade factory, because some people stab other people with those blades. Okay .. try giving knives away anonymously out of the back of your garage and let us know how you make out.

Re: [tor-talk] Court – Official statement part #1

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 11:41 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Apologies, not sure this has been posted already in the thread, I'm backlogged. https://rdns.im/court-official-statement-part-1 Court – Official statement part #1 Posted on July 2, 2014 by Will As seen possibly here, or here i lost the Tor case and

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 6:56 PM, ideas buenas wrote: Why is markmonitor.com and its derivates in my TBB? How can I do to delete this ? Are they watching me? In your computer in what sense? How does it manifest itself? What are its derivatives? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 2:21 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:56, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote: Signed PGP part On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: The subject of this attracted my attention. Are we talking here about a clear law, written black on white which states that it is illegal to run

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/3/2014 10:34 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Agreed, great news. In hindsight, it is clear that we as a community have an interest to build a resource of amicus curiae briefs - friend of the court briefs. So PLEASE make moves in the direction of contributing and collecting documents which may

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/3/2014 2:23 PM, C B wrote: I agree that collecting stories about why/how I use Tor is useful, but I disagree that any special education or warning should be needed before setting up an exit node. Setting up an exit node is simply providing another IP that can be used for traffic and

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/4/2014 3:02 PM, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor! Running an internal relay in Graz since 7/2013, where William Weber's appartment was raided in 2012, when some idiot misused his exit for illegal stuff, I became interested in

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
- -- no.thing_to-hide at cryptopathie dot eu 0x30C3CDF0, RSA 2048, 24 Mar 2014 0FF8 A811 8857 1B7E 195B 649E CC26 E1A5 30C3 CDF0 Bitmessage (no metadata): BM-2cXixKZaqzJmTfz6ojiyLzmKg2JbzDnApC On 04/07/14 22:56, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 7/3/2014 2:23 PM, C B wrote: I agree that collecting stories about

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Thanks. I've not used online translating sites for larger documents or whole websites. For this document, I tried a few other well known translators besides google translate - in an attempt to avoid anything google. Are there online translators that work for larger documents besides google

[tor-talk] Google Translation accuracy [was: Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court]

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
they meant you're more likely to be *monitored* when using Tor? On 7/6/2014 11:48 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Thanks. I've not used online translating sites for larger documents or whole websites. For this document, I tried a few other well known translators besides google translate

Re: [tor-talk] washingtonpost.com: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/6/2014 1:27 PM, C B wrote: Obviously, we do need to anonymize and encrypt everything, but also need to adopt a UN resolution protecting the privacy of individuals - no government may intercept any communication without permission or a signed search warrant, which can only be issued on

Re: [tor-talk] washingtonpost.com: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/6/2014 3:39 PM, C B wrote: Not as many live here as vacation here. A very large number of the rich and powerful visit. And as the first in the nation primary, every Presidential candidate spends a lot of time here. Yes it is often hard to get laws against things because politicians do

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/7/2014 6:04 PM, I wrote: It appears that it is specifically unwise to rubbish the court while subject to it. As for freedom of speech Australia has none legislated and does have severe laws against sedition. What other developed country can match that for discouraging speech? Well,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/7/2014 10:04 PM, C B wrote: But it is often said, if you do not know what your rights are, you have none. Rights have to be asserted. Strenuously. Thousands of people have been more than willing to go to prison to assert various rights so that everyone else will have them. Mostly, you

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project Is Sued / Austrian Parliamentary inquiry

2014-07-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/9/2014 4:38 PM, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: Hi! Thease two threads seem important to Tor... (...) - Parliamentary inquiry about legal status of running Tor in Austria. 1)

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project Is Sued / Austrian Parliamentary inquiry

2014-07-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/10/2014 1:51 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hoi! On 10 Jul 2014, at 16:18, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: * It's also not clear (to me) whether some of the references are actual, official *legal* opinions / rulings, or just commentaries. Clarification added to the cited links Thank you

Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] data mine the snowden files [was: open the snowden files]

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
HUH ?!? I don't follow this. On 7/11/2014 9:18 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Of potential interest to some Tor users here. - Forwarded message from coderman coder...@gmail.com - Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:29:42 -0700 From: coderman coder...@gmail.com To: John Young j...@pipeline.com, cpunks

Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] data mine the snowden files [was: open the snowden files]

2014-07-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/11/2014 10:34 AM, coderman wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: HUH ?!? I don't follow this. it's the cryptome archives as of last month[0]. it is also 23G large, hence the many onions and a aria2c hint. curious to see what throughput some get

[tor-talk] Torbrowser consistent crash on shut down_nssckbi.dll

2014-07-14 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Has anyone experienced crashes when closing TBB, as described here? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10761#comment:5 It happens almost every session, if I load pages in TBB. For me, it happens even if not restoring tabs / windows, as the bug OP mentioned (I never do). For me,

Re: [tor-talk] Escalating hidden services

2014-07-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/16/2014 6:28 PM, Ted Smith wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 14:10 -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: Fosforo wrote: I am a big fan of pinkmeth hidden service Then I question your ethics. Nonconsensual porn is an extreme violation of someone's trust -- not to mention gross and illegal. It's also

Re: [tor-talk] Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users -- Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws

2014-07-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/22/2014 3:30 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/11362227955/carnegie-mellon-kills-black-hat-talk-about-identifying-tor-users.shtml Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users -- Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws from the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser window size

2014-07-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/23/2014 2:49 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Red Sonja: I'm running the latest TBB on linux32. How do I reset the window size? I moved one side by mistake and I can't set it back by hand. Each time I run it, it's the window size from the last session. That should not happen. If you resize a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser window size

2014-07-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/24/2014 3:58 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: Should TBB always start in partial window size? It depends on your available screen size. But in almost all cases, yes, TBB should always start in partial window size at least until we find a good way to deal with maximized browser

Re: [tor-talk] Why does requesting for bridges by email require a Yahoo or Gmail address?

2014-07-24 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/24/2014 9:38 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29:49PM +, ideas buenas wrote: I don't trust Gmail nor Yahoo. Roger, found another way. No excuses, please. This actually has very little to do with trust, and (as Roger said) these providers were chosen because of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser window size

2014-07-25 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/25/2014 1:57 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: On 7/24/2014 3:58 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Joe Btfsplk: Should TBB always start in partial window size? It depends on your available screen size. But in almost all cases, yes, TBB should always start in partial window size at least until

[tor-talk] User views on lesser of 2 evils_Tor FAQ on using java script

2014-07-26 Thread Joe Btfsplk
How do some more advanced Tor users feel about pros cons of leaving java script constantly enabled or selectively enabling it? The overall java script issue advice given at different times in different places can get confusing. From https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBJavaScriptEnabled:

Re: [tor-talk] User views on lesser of 2 evils_Tor FAQ on using java script

2014-07-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/26/2014 10:13 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 07/26/2014 09:26 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: So, is it, damned if I do, damned if I don't? Basically, yes. A lot of users including me can cope with only selectively enabling Javascript, but I would strongly argue against making that the default

Re: [tor-talk] User views on lesser of 2 evils_Tor FAQ on using java script

2014-07-27 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/27/2014 2:08 AM, grarpamp wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: How do some more advanced Tor users feel about pros cons of leaving java script constantly enabled or selectively enabling it? The risk of any potential leak of real IP or actual user

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-28 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/28/2014 3:34 PM, Craw wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for your answer! I've just thought a bit about various methods to prevent fingerprinting browser profile (incl. UA/screen resolution/time zone/fonts/etc.), and here is two ways I've found: a) all

Re: [tor-talk] What are use cases made unpleasant by Tor's speed?

2014-07-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/28/2014 8:07 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Hey Virgil, I'd say that the issue with Tor's speed is one of inconsistency, rather than outright slowness. Give you an example: I was watching a friend set up a new laptop, and she elected to fetch drivers direct from the manufacturer's

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/29/2014 12:16 AM, Ben Bailess wrote: There are some built-in protections in TBB that keep honored requests for known fingerprinting data to a minimum, so the TBB does not function like a normal browser in this instance. It most notably limits the high entropy factors -- responses for

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-29 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Thanks. I won't reply to all your additional comments (too much to read at once). If you don't mind, send me a screen / copy of your test results from Panopticlick (I guess that's where it was). I've *never* gotten values as low as you show they're able to read very little, if JS is disabled.

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/29/2014 4:35 PM, Ben Bailess wrote: But here are some numbers that I just collected that perhaps could be of use to you. This test was done with the latest TBB (3.6.3) and Firefox versions on Linux (Fedora), with both JS on and off: FF (private browsing) / JS disabled = 16 bits (not unique

Re: [tor-talk] Spoofing a browser profile to prevent fingerprinting

2014-07-31 Thread Joe Btfsplk
? If so, do they detail that? Thanks. On 7/30/2014 9:12 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 7/29/2014 4:35 PM, Ben Bailess wrote: But here are some numbers that I just collected that perhaps could be of use to you. This test was done with the latest TBB (3.6.3) and Firefox versions on Linux (Fedora), with both

Re: [tor-talk] JonDo uses Tor v0.2.3.25 SocksPort but not for v0.2.4.20-v0.2.4.23; why?

2014-08-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 8/2/2014 12:48 PM, Mirimir wrote: I've been playing with JAP/JonDo routed through Tor. The JonDo client has a SOCKS proxy option, and it works well with Tor v0.2.3.25 SocksPorts in Ubuntu 14.04.1 x64. I installed Tor from the Ubuntu 12.04 repository, by the way. After upgrading Tor to

Re: [tor-talk] Help with Default Browser

2014-08-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 8/6/2014 9:57 PM, RD wrote: Hello Tor, Despite my check-marking 'Make Tor Browser the Default browser', wherever I click on a link from an email regular Firefox opens up. How do I make Tor Browser always be the default? Regardless of whether Torbrowser will act as the default browser, one

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