[tor-talk] Deep Web Business Models

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
I'm taking this as a good sign that real businesspeople are starting to get interested in deep web marketplaces, where customer data isn't the primary product. Here's one investor's thoughts, http://joel.mn/post/108657860988/deep-web-marketplaces -- Andrew +1-781-948-1982

Re: [tor-talk] Wrong links on Tor Browser download page

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 10/16/2014 02:51 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: Confirmed. It looks like Andrew was the last to push to the website -- Andrew, can you check your ./publish process and make sure that it includes an 'svn update' before the build and push step? Or can you otherwise try to figure out what went

Re: [tor-talk] Random Networking Upgrades That May Be Of Use In Tor 2

2014-10-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-09 21:17, Ben Healey wrote: Here's some info that may be of use in Tor. Hello Ben, Your past two emails have little to nothing to do with Tor. Please post relevant topics in the future. Thanks. -- Andrew https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Wikimedia and Tor

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 09:57, Derric Atzrott wrote: About once a year the topic of Tor comes up on Wikimedia's technical mailing list. I recently raised the topic again. For those who aren't aware of the situation, currently Wikimedia blocks all edits from Tor users. We are trying to find a way that

Re: [tor-talk] How does Tor help abuse victims?

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 13:20, Sebastian G. bastik.tor wrote: I appear to lack imagination on how Tor helps abuse victims. Since some of you are involved with some organizations working in that field, I hope you give some insight. Personally I see no benefit in using Tor from the point of view of an

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in the media

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 17:40, Patrick wrote: Hi everyone, Over the past few weeks, I've talked with a number of Tor people about how the project is portrayed in the media. As a reporter on this beat, the many legitimate criticisms the community have had strike pretty close to home for me. I don't think

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in the media

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-02 14:15, z9wahqvh wrote: as I've asked before, I would appreciate any metrics, stats, or other data that can back up claims of this sort, as well as means by which reporters and researchers can assess them. Luckily, we have DARPA working to find out these metrics and stats, see

Re: [tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/22/2014 05:42 PM, grarpamp wrote: What's the trac ticket for these, or this sort of thing? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11515 Sourceforge/Dice don't care. We even sent them snail mail to no effect. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/13/2014 06:35 PM, The Doctor wrote: Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an “illegal service.” The Comcast agent told

Re: [tor-talk] Misogyny on tor-talk is an existential threat to Tor

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/15/2014 07:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Those who matter do. A well written article or two on such things would undoubtedly be useful on occasion to point to, and in this (type of) thread in particular, it seems to me that referring to such an article early on may be about the most

Re: [tor-talk] Misogyny on tor-talk is an existential threat to Tor (was: Re: Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.)

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
I just read through this massive thread. I agree with killing the thread. The topic is important, but now no longer constructive for tor-talk. Please no more replies to the thread. Thanks. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] What should our 31c3 talk be?

2014-09-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/08/2014 08:05 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: The 31c3 talk proposals are due this coming Sunday: http://events.ccc.de/2014/07/12/31c3-call-for-participation-en/ I wonder what would be the most useful topic for this year? Let the community speak about Tor and tell their stories about

Re: [tor-talk] how many verify their tbb ?

2014-07-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 02:09:12PM +1000, shm...@riseup.net wrote 0.3K bytes in 0 lines about: : are there any stats available to see the % of people who verify their : tbb download (cross ref same IP for both the .xz and .asc or shasum txt : file ???) as a % of total tbb downloads ? Here's a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Phishing in the Wild // Old Sigs

2014-06-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/24/2014 04:25 PM, Rich Jones wrote: I'm just posting this stuff here for analysis and discussion, not because I need the tech support. But good advice if there were those out there who fell for this scam. Thanks Rich. I've opened https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12458 to

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

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
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 Sponsor of Terrorism,

Re: [tor-talk] Including Tor into millions of products.

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/14/2014 03:09 AM, Sebastian G. bastik.tor wrote: The questions that pop in my head are: 1) What kind of products are that? (Businesses or End-Consumer market?) Yes and yes. 2) What is the intended use-case? (Usage of the Tor network? Contribution to the Tor network? Both?) Privacy

Re: [tor-talk] Norse Darklist, for blocking Tor

2014-06-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/10/2014 06:17 PM, grarpamp wrote: http://www.norse-corp.com/darklist.html The world's first comprehensive blacklist of the Internet's highest risk IPs. IPs are for routing, not reputation. Ugh. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Financials [was: General...proxy]

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:37:39AM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 0 lines about: : : https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2012-financial-docs : : 2011 Expenses pie chart : Where is rent, legal, internet/hosting, marketing, capex? It's buried in the

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:41:50PM -0400, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Ahhh, many thanks for the clarification. Details on this were very : spotty, and I didn't want to speculate. It would be safe to assume details are still spotty. Until someone actually

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:24:06AM +0200, pipat...@gmail.com wrote 1.5K bytes in 0 lines about: : I think that's a rather arrogant point of view. If it was not a Tor : problem, .onion would not be needed in the first place. Tor developers do : seem to work hard on making it difficult for a user

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:39:24PM +0200, pipat...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : 2) Has Tor applied to ICANN about the .onion domain, or discussed the pro : and con of doing this? We didn't apply, but when inquiring about it, they wanted us to provide trademark proof (which we

Re: [tor-talk] Disabling the warning for self signed certificates in Tor Browser

2014-04-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:07:02AM +, antispa...@sent.at wrote 2.2K bytes in 0 lines about: : A self-signed certificate is better than no certificate. Given the : trouble with a CA, it might be just as good as a CA certificate. Perhaps a better complaint for Mozilla than Tor. -- Andrew pgp

Re: [tor-talk] Plans to bring safe Firefox to Android?

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:52:45PM +, anonymous.cow...@posteo.de wrote 1.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Thus, is there plans to create a Firefox for mobile that is safe to use : with Tor? Just like the browser bundle for desktop systems. Guardian recommends using Firefox with Proxymob. They

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:01:00PM +0200, kusbu...@riseup.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Today, Tor Project and Youtube websites are blocked in Turkey by the : biggest Turkish ISP, TTNet. However, other ISPs in Turkey will block them : too. Besides, I'm not sure they're going to block

Re: [tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:22:14AM -0500, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 3.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Theory: Tor is being blocked mostly due to negative news media : perception, and kneejerk catchall solutions taking the cheap and : dumb route to systems and policy... not due to balanced acceptable

Re: [tor-talk] Torproject frontpage content

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:00:04AM -0500, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Noticed that the frontpage mentions location/anonymity : but doesn't actually say anything about encryption shielding : your thoughts and interactions from your first hop ISP/employer/wifi/etc. :

Re: [tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 08:06:11PM +0100, li...@infosecurity.ch wrote 1.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : From a Security-Wise point of view, if i was the IT Security Manager : of a company, i would definitively block Tor's access to my IT : infrastructure. As a former head of IT for a global

Re: [tor-talk] Problems installing Tor on my server

2014-03-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:47:47PM +, d.dr...@gmail.com wrote 2.1K bytes in 0 lines about: : I'm trying to install Tor on my Centos5 server. I have been running an old : version of Tor as a relay for several years, installed via yum from one of : the Centos repos. I realised I wasn't doing

Re: [tor-talk] Tor plugin for Nagios

2014-03-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 08:41:13AM +0300, r...@goodvikings.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Heya List Please use tor-relays OR tor-talk, don't cross lists. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

Re: [tor-talk] Adblock for everyone

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Alice Anderson foxacidprob...@aol.com wrote: Why you have HTTPSEverywhere and Noscript by default but not Adblockplus on TBB package? it really helps and blcok major tracking companies like Google Facebook ... Tor is not perfect, as almost all web pages

Re: [tor-talk] BBG and Tor funding

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 23:49:47 +0100 mick m...@rlogin.net wrote: • This article was amended on 4 October after the Broadcasting Board of Governors pointed out that its support of Tor ended in October 2012. Actually, the BBG contract ended in June 2013. So. How does this square with BBG's

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:29:14 -0400 David Green dgrin...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine, like homebrew (mainly for PPC), I would like to eventually set-up a web-site, or sourceforge presence, for *Luddite* like myself ;) Back when I had an OS X 10.4 PPC machine, I had to compile everything

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:22:54 -0400 David Green dgrin...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Intel and it is possible I shall have to compile the openssl. Assume you're compiling everything. With unsupported OSes, you'll learn to love gcc and its quirks. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] Tor companies

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:14:17 -0700 coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: in addition The Tor Project, Inc. there appears to be related: Tor Solutions Corporation - Tor Solutions Corporation in Walpole, MA is a private company categorized under Website Design Services. Our records show it was

Re: [tor-talk] Bandwidth Scheduling for Relays

2013-09-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:34:43 +0300 Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I have a feature request. It would be nice for a future version of Tor to allow scheduling at least one alternate values for RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst for a span of time. This would allow relays to

Re: [tor-talk] GCHQ 'Tor Events' Capture... (scribd.com)

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:09:30 +0200 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/ https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Tor browser can be fingerprinted

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Marthin Miller torprob...@aol.com wrote: Hi. The main problem for what you made public as Tor software is that it uses 1024bit RSA keys which can be cracked in a few hours and compromise Tor path. Do you have a source for this claim? All I've seen is

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:16:06 -0700 Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: 3. Find better meds 4. Go fuck off Personal attacks like this are unacceptable. Let's keep it mature and civil, even in the face of immaturity and incivility on other sides. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:18:31 -0700 bm-2d9whbg2vekslcsgbtplgwdlqypizsq...@bitmessage.ch wrote: Despite this transparency on Tor's own website, Tor's Sponsors page at https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en currently lists its largest donor as an anonymous NGO. Isn't SRI an

Re: [tor-talk] Isn't it time to ADMIT that Tor is cracked by now??

2013-08-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:48:57 -0300 Juan Garofalo juan@gmail.com wrote: Yeah. I find it kind of odd that no one here is saying anything about freedom hosting. I saw some discussion in Roger Dingledine's blog, but it was just one post (plus hundred of comments), but a blog isn't the

Re: [tor-talk] Exit bridges / Tor VPN terminals

2013-08-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:20:52 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: There are no official exit bridges provided as part of Tor network. However you could setup your traffic to go through Tor to a regular VPN or proxy service and then exit to the destination you want. - This exit

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Check Problem?

2013-08-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:21:40PM -0400, and...@torproject.is wrote 0.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : It seems we're getting a flood of IPv6 traffic to the server. We're : investigating. Looks most like someone was trying to use tordnsel wrong and flooded the server with queries for every page

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Check Problem?

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:10:31 -0400 Webmaster webmas...@felononline.info wrote: anyone know whats going on with tor check? It seems we're getting a flood of IPv6 traffic to the server. We're investigating. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Freedom Hosting Owner Arrested, Tormail Compromised, Malicious JS Discovered

2013-08-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 06:34:10 +0300 bpmcontrol bpmcont...@gmail.com wrote: did not see this here, might interest some. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-events-and-freedom-hosting -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list -

[tor-talk] Ninja Stik?

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
Anyone used one of these ninja stik usb drives? http://www.ninjastik.com It seems to be stock ubuntu with tor installed. People keep coming to me asking how come we called it ninja stik and why we used ubuntu when we have tails. The first question is why people think we produce it at all. --

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: Good luck finding anything that's not completely obvious on the Tor Project website or these mailing lists . . . if we had a Tor forum finding your answer would have been super simple and you wouldn't have had to

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not the one asking for help here, the thread starter is, that's person you should be addressing in terms of helping him/her search. And maybe you need to search a little more too, considering what you suggested

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:44:53 +1000 bvvq beveryveryqu...@lavabit.com wrote: How do other users update their existing TBB software? Are my steps for updating incorrect or unsafe? Is there a recommended method for updating an existing TBB software? Extracting over existing Tor Browser is

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Listing (Apache) Bug Found on torproject.org

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:57:01 +0500 Ali Hasan Ghauri alihasangha...@hotmail.com wrote: It is Directory Listing (Apache) . An attacker can see the files located in the directory and could potentially access files which disclose sensitive information . This is by design. The smarter attacker

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: 1. Why is it you didn't answer my main question, that I and others have asked (in and out of my thread): Where did the money go that was earmarked for the forum? please answer that question specifically. The money

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:33:07 -0700 Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: I would like to blog about these bundles tomorrow morning. Where can they go for that announcement? Leaving them on people is fine with me. I don't appear to have access to archive, nor do I have the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:33 -0400 Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.is wrote: In the meantime, I've synced the mirrors to create this url, which should be up shortly: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/3.0a1 I ended up removing this directory because we ran out of disk space

Re: [tor-talk] Third-party QAs

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:03:13 +0200 Sebastian G. bastik.tor bastik@googlemail.com wrote: I'd like to raise concerns about third-party QAs and discuss them. We've had this discussion for the past year or so, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5995 and

Re: [tor-talk] Plans about Askbot?

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:04:08 +0200 Sebastian G. bastik.tor bastik@googlemail.com wrote: You had ask.TPO with Askbot already running and it is still running. All it seems to take is an active community that feeds it with questions and answers them. The askbot software needs work itself,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:59:34 +0300 irregula...@riseup.net wrote: So since Vidalia is removed, there is no easy way for the average user to run a relay? Or you will still distribute packages with Vidalia for this exact reason? Vidalia isn't need to run a relay, it just gives it more eye candy.

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-04-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
This guy is annoying. He's been emailing any address at Tor he can find. I'm not responding to him any more. Basically, he's asking for money to keep our wiki clean. He's implied in the past that if we don't pay him, we'll be spammed ruthlessly. On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:13:14 +0400 torwiki

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and BitCoin miner trojans - perfect pair

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:15:52 -0400 David H. Lipman dlip...@verizon.net wrote: I wonder what OTHER malware I am missing that is using the Tor network to obfuscate the malicious activity. Replace Tor network with Internet and the statement is the same. Jerks use tools to be jerks. Good people

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:59:45 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Noticed a recent surge of sites using CloudFlare. Actually, I've talked to cloudflare in the recent past. They don't block Tor per se, they rate limit connections/request per IP address. While I don't agree with this model,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor transparent proxy leaks?

2013-04-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:40:50 + James Russell jamesruss...@tormail.org wrote: After setting up my computer (Debian Squeeze 6.0) to transparently proxy all my traffic over tor, I decided to verify it by visiting check.torproject.org with chromium. Use tor browser or don't bother. Tor only

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Question - Not saving settings

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:04:50 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Guess the trademark holders never filed a complaint. As the trademark holder, it's a work in progress. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] VOIP over Tor

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:08:39 +0200 Van Gegel torf...@ukr.net wrote: I found that this is a very old idea: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2006-May/thread.html#13379 But why for 6 years no one is interested? Because most VOIP is UDP, and Tor doesn't support UDP. See

Re: [tor-talk] Torproject.org Being Censored in Canada

2013-03-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:41:19 -0400 Andrew Paolucci adpaolu...@gmail.com wrote: I made a disturbing discovery for me and my fellow Canucks today when I was sitting at a Tim Hortons(very popular coffee chain in Canada that provides free WiFi) enjoying my coffee while working on my laptop. Tim

Re: [tor-talk] Replace Tor directory authority with DHT?

2013-03-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:03:19 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Has it been considered to replace the Tor directory authority with a Distributed Hash Table? See this thread, https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-January/027172.html -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp

Re: [tor-talk] Problem about Tor website

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:03:17 +0900 Nam Su namfree...@gmail.com wrote: I know Tor http website redirects Https version website but http site couldn't open or slowly than Tor connection. Is it government's sensor? http://torproject.org redirects to https://www.torproject.org automatically on

Re: [tor-talk] Bugtracker registrationt buggy

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:31:20 +0100 kwadronaut kwadronaut+...@chocovax.net wrote: I tried to sign up a week or 2 ago at the trac instance. It told me I would get some confirmation url by mail, but it never tried contacting my mailserver. According to the mail server logs, the message was sent

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:51:55 -0800 (PST) Mysterious Flyer mysteriousfl...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, thank you.  That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  I was thinking that the Tor Project ought to have a list of super-trusted hidden services, as well as a list of known violators.  We're not

Re: [tor-talk] TBB download mirror or p2p?

2013-02-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:36:37 +0100 David Balažic xerc...@gmail.com wrote: The TBB download https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/tor-browser-2.3.25-2_en-US.exe is quite slow, getting about 100KB/s (much faster line...). Is this a temporarily (over)load of the server? Did you happen

Re: [tor-talk] Tails 0.16: Why the fsck does Tails 0.16 use an ancient version of OpenSSL? And has it been crippled somehow?

2013-02-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
Perhaps you want to get in touch with the tails team, https://tails.boum.org/support/index.en.html -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] are 1984.is good guys?

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:36:10 +0100 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I take https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/iceland as an official endorsement of 1984.is for freedom-minded hosting. Is that a correct interpretation? The Tor Project doesn't officially endorse anything. We use

Re: [tor-talk] TOR Fone - p2p secure and anonymous VoIP tool

2013-02-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 12:47:51 -0500 Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: I'll try to find some time to contact the person off-line and suggest changing the name to 'OnionFone' or something more generic. Please feel free to do so in parallel to me, since I know somebody here has much more free

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: inreasing MaxClientCircuitsPending useful?

2013-02-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:50:56 +0100 Quan q...@tormail.org wrote: 2) Bump the parameter value to whatever seems useful. I asked exactly this: which value should I use? And whether should I change it at all (because I do no understand from man page whether this would help me) My guess is, no

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:41:50 +0100 Sebastian G. bastik.tor bastik@googlemail.com wrote: How far along is the Directory Server decentralization in general? If you talk about DHT (distributed hash tables) to bootstrap rather than fetching the consensus from a central place or a mirror... I

Re: [tor-talk] torbrowser with tor 0.2.3.25

2013-01-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:39:01 -0500 (EST) benjaminlinc...@lavabit.com wrote: I noticed Tor Browser does not use the official stable release of tor. Does using Tor Browser's firefox with tor 0.2.3.25 hurt anonymity? Tor 0.2.3.25 is the official stable release of Tor. What version do you think is

Re: [tor-talk] Mosh safe with tor?

2013-01-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:40:14 +0100 Jerzy Łogiewa jerz...@interia.eu wrote: Hello! Does anyone know, is the Mosh shell safe for tor use? Any known leaking? It's UDP-based, so no. And it appears to be based upon one person's mods to AES. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] Cupcake: browser extension for flash proxies

2013-01-07 Thread Andrew Lewman
An administrative note, please don't cross-post lists. Choose one. Thanks. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Caught by mailing list filter?

2012-12-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:23:37 - anon3...@tormail.org wrote: This is strange. Message [1] is visible in the web archive but not one got a mail. In my inbox is what is on the archive. You don't receive your own messages by default. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Tor

2012-12-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:10:04 + sophia.martin.2...@gmail.com wrote: Can somebody pleease direct me to where I can opt out of this constant emails that I am not even involved in. Please help I get around 4 emails per day. I just removed you manually. Cheers. -- Andrew

Re: [tor-talk] tor versus freenet

2012-12-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:25:35 +0100 folkert folk...@vanheusden.com wrote: In short: can't we combine these two? Others have done it, so it can be done. Others have combined tor and tahoe-lafs as well. I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you throwing the idea out there to see if others agree and

Re: [tor-talk] Make Wifi available through Tor?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:13:45 + t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: I wouldn't let my mother do her online banking over Tor without explaining to her exactly how it works, and making sure she understands what she is doing. Even if a bad exit node didn't SSL strip her connection, she could still

Re: [tor-talk] 'cached-descriptors' replaced with 'cached-microdescs'

2012-12-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:39:38 +0530 (IST) basmati kasaar bas...@indiatimes.com wrote: 'atlas.torproject.org' appears to contain very, very little useful informations and no informations on specific exit port availability per router. The full exit policy is on atlas, here's a current exit

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia Bundle (Tor, Polipo Vidalia)

2012-12-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:47:40 + Julian Yon jul...@yon.org.uk wrote: Sorry? Are you being deliberately obtuse? You can obtain Polipo for yourself. I even gave you the URL for the author's site to save you a Google search. Julian, there's no need for personal attacks. I understand he's

Re: [tor-talk] does tor browse bundle really work on UNIX, BSD, etc

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
tarb...@mixnym.net wrote: I downloaded the tbb again and I noticed there is only one version for Linux, UNIX and BSD. I thought these were all totally different operating systems. I just started with Ubuntu a few months ago so maybe I am wrong. Does the tbb really work everywhere or is the

Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:27:48 -0600 Landon Campbell campbelllan...@hotmail.com wrote: other messages logged, and the circuit is not changed. Is there anyone who could tell me what I'm doing wrong? From https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/control-spec.txt#l375 The key phrase to

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + (GMT) Dan Hughes danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick and downloading files (.PDFs, SM vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or downloaded being

Re: [tor-talk] where does Tor browser bundle cache the web page content and videos on linux?

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:33:52 +0200 jiang song luolisongji...@gmail.com wrote: does anyone know where TBB cache its web content? In ram. Disk cache is disabled. see browser.cache.disk.enable;false in about:config. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:43 +0200 Mike Hearn he...@google.com wrote: We have a policy of phone verifying every signup via anonymizing proxies. If you signed up via Tor and didn't get asked to phone verify it means the list of exit nodes we're using isn't up to date, or there was a sync issue.

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:55:02 -0400 Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote: 1.) Include small windows, apple, and tux logos on the download link on the main tor page... these could serve as a symbolic cue that it is a download link. We had these in the past and people didn't recognize their own OS

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:12:43 +0200 (CEST) Outlaw out...@omail.pro wrote: I was talking about descriptions outside torproject.org for non-english-speaking people. Imagine blog post that describes benefits of Tor and a link to page that starts downloading right away (or after few seconds). And

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Outlaw out...@omail.pro wrote: Hey there, Tor devs :) IMHO present torproject.org is very difficult for average internet user. For those who don`t know english well, it is almost impossible to find proper link. Hmm, the large purple and orange

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:53:32 +0100 Matt Joyce torad...@mttjocy.co.uk wrote: Agreed that having more accessibility to at least the key documents available in other languages would be a great addition however tor is an open source project and like all open source projects for anything to get

Re: [tor-talk] trac user permission

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:24:31 + adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Subscribing is no longer possible. Technically, subscribing by email is no longer possible. Every ticket has an RSS feed. It's listed on the bottom under Download in other formats: -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp

Re: [tor-talk] Covert Browser By Stephan Hoffmann

2012-10-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:00:07 + SiNA Rabbani s...@redteam.io wrote: Has anyone checked this software out? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/covert-browser/id477438328?mt=8 When I searched for ipad tor they came up first :/ Ahem.

Re: [tor-talk] install adobe flash player on TBB

2012-10-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 14:15:51 +0200 esolve esolve esolvepol...@gmail.com wrote: no, in some package, flash plugin is not enabled in TBB by default but in some packages, flash plugin is missing I'm just wondering how to install the flash plugin In all packages we create/provide, flash is

Re: [tor-talk] Tor advice?

2012-09-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
I'm treating this as trolling and summarily nuking the thread to avoid any more stupidity. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Windows Screenreader Users?

2012-09-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:55:30 -0700 Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: A blind user reported to tor-assistants that Vidalia does not work with JAWS. I later tested Vidalia with Windows Narrator, and it did not speak the labels or contents of any 'controls' within Vidalia either.

Re: [tor-talk] Bugmenot.com / Cloudflare.com blocking Tor

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:50:09 +0200 antispa...@sent.at wrote: When will this restriction go away? This restriction will disappear when your computer or mobile device is cleaned and no more harmful behavior is detected. Completing the challenge above proves you are a human and gives you

Re: [tor-talk] http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net/

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:09:03 +0200 Randolph D. rdohm...@gmail.com wrote: the domain exists for years, it has been acquired for the Qt update, see the given 2010 release with still firefox. From what I can tell, it didn't look like this since 2010. As there it TBB, Tor Browser Bundle, the

Re: [tor-talk] http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net/

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:38:13 +0200 Randolph D. rdohm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there is preparation draft work done to get the vidalia Qt plugin out for the TorBrowser based on Dooble Web Browser 1.35 with lots of security improvments. Is there something to change on the drafted website?

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
at risk, here they are https://people.torproject.org/~andrew/tor-user-stories/ These were initially public in 2008 and 2009 for a series of articles on the now defunct Knight Pulse blog. I ask again, because I want the answer to improve us: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Andrew Lewman

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 07:23:46 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Tor cannot accept known 'illegal' money, therefore acknowledgement is moot. About the best Tor could do is be able to accept anonymous donations in the first place. Then publish a bitcoin address for donations from anyone.

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