[tor-talk] Announcing unMessage: a Next-Gen Tor Messenger

2017-02-21 Thread bancfc
unMessage is an anonymous messenger that uses Tor to hide metadata of participants. Its still in early development, however a major new feature such as Tor-to-Tor audio chat (the first such implementation we are aware of) has been included. Major additions like file-sharing support, video

[tor-talk] Quote Line Prefixes in Linux Text Editors

2016-10-16 Thread bancfc
On 10/16/2016 7:11:03 PM, mirimir at riseup.net wrote: In Thunderbird+Enigmail, do three things: 1) create a local folder "Drafts", and configure Thunderbird to use it; Yes good tip. Also Torbirdy configures this. 2) in "Thunderbird/Account Settings/OpenPGP Security", check "Encrypt draft

[tor-talk] Quote Line Prefixes in Linux Text Editors

2016-10-16 Thread bancfc
Enigmail https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5369 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Did Hackers got hacked with "tor nodes for MitM Jabber servers" ?

2016-10-15 Thread bancfc
Did Hackers got hacked with "tor nodes for MitM Jabber servers" ? No. It seems they had very shitty opsec. * re-connecting to an anonymous account directly over clearnet. * using their voice over the phone to social engineer. * dox themselves to some reporter. -- tor-talk mailing list -

[tor-talk] Quote Line Prefixes in Linux Text Editors

2016-10-15 Thread bancfc
Found answer for my own question: sed 's/^/> /' original > reply -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Quote Line Prefixes in Linux Text Editors

2016-10-15 Thread bancfc
For security its recommended to compose messages outside the e-mail client. There were at least two incidents where plaintext was leaked (claws mail saving drafts unencrypted and Enigmail sending unencrypted messages). Does anyone know how to add quoted line prefixes [1] to messages composed

[tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.

2016-10-03 Thread bancfc
The logic of blocking everything completely *all the time* (like Google does) is already a big problem with the IPv4 address space becoming over saturated. Its not a Tor only thing. Sometimes an entire country is behind a single NAT access point. Researching ways that don't infringe on user's

[tor-talk] Image EXIF data used to geolocate

2016-09-22 Thread bancfc
Pretty basic opsec fail but I wonder if mapping out tags was a good idea. Imagine tagging a city that has a handful of Tor users. They should have consulted the Tor Research Ethics process. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

[tor-talk] Making sense of the BADDECISION Program

2016-08-22 Thread bancfc
Never mind that it took three years (!) to be published, the parent article from TheIntercept is lacking on the technical side. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3031639/07-Introduction-to-BADDECISION-Redacted.pdf Are they already a part of the LAN whose computers they are exploiting?

[tor-talk] [Whonix Project] Looking for Python Devs

2016-08-22 Thread bancfc
Hello. We at the Whonix Project are looking for volunteers with a knowledge of Python to help us out with some tasks. If you like what we do or like to help out Free Software projects in general, please take a look at the task list [1] and introduce yourself. [1]

[tor-talk] Username Generator programs

2016-08-05 Thread bancfc
Does anyone know about any good username generator programs? I've been thinking about some of the ways users can deanonymize themselves when posting on a forum. Besides password re-use from non-anonymous accounts (which password managers deal with), writing style (Anonymouth is supposed to

Re: [tor-talk] Practical deanonymization using CPU load covert channels

2016-07-31 Thread bancfc
Thanks Ethan for your research. We've been discussing which mitigation technique to use. In a virtualized context disabling c-states is only possible from the host. Thats ok since all it means is we need to package it for users to install it there. We prefer the idea of not using the kernel

Re: [tor-talk] Practical deanonymization using CPU load covert channels

2016-07-15 Thread bancfc
Hi. Whonix collaborator here. We've given a lot of thought to many types of clock based attacks including the one you are researching so we are interested to know more about how this applies to our platform. To run Whonix in KVM please see the relevant steps here [0]. Let me know if you have

[tor-talk] Tor Browser Custom Intro Page Fingerprintability

2016-03-04 Thread bancfc
AFAIK for trademark reasons TPO recommends that distros built around Tor Browser show a custom intro page upon Tor Browser start up to users (which we do in Whonix). Is this custom page detectable by websites a user visits (with a malicious JS script for example)? If successful this attack

Re: [tor-talk] Lets Encrypt compared to self-signed certs

2016-02-29 Thread bancfc
Hi David. Thanks for chiming in. Please add a feature for pinning at the key level as IMO it provides the best protection. Will the logs provide users/site owners with a way to independently check if coercion has happened? Would systems like Cothority help Lets Encrypt users notice cert

[tor-talk] Lets Encrypt compared to self-signed certs

2016-02-29 Thread bancfc
How secure is Lets Encrypt compared to a pinned self signed cert? Can Lets Encrypt be subverted by NSLs? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [Whonix-devel] [Tails-dev] Persistent Tor start in Tails vs location aware Tor entry guards (LATEG)

2016-02-07 Thread bancfc
On 2016-02-06 23:14, intrigeri wrote: Hi, [can you please decide what mailing-list this discussion should happen on, and then we can stop cross-posting over 4 mailing-list?] [snip] I'm not sure I understand the problem you mean to raise, though. Can you please elaborate what problem you see

[tor-talk] OFTC semi-permanent Tor Blocking

2016-01-03 Thread bancfc
The OFTC servers have been blocking Tor users for weeks and the #tor is no longer a viable support channel for anonymous users. We are looking for other Tor friendly options at the moment and it would be great if you consider moving your channels too. Options we are considering for Whonix are

Re: [tor-talk] New Ahmia search released

2016-01-03 Thread bancfc
Great stuff! Do you plan on bringing back your Onion site? Will there be a eepsite address for ahmia? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] What's to be Done

2015-08-23 Thread bancfc
Fantastic talks by Jacob as always, he hammers home many major system hardening ideas. I summarized the points in the talks and will build on them with more ideas and information. I encourage everyone to see the DebConf talks by all means:

[tor-talk] TBB Problems with connecting to HTTP Proxies

2015-06-25 Thread bancfc
I am trying to use TorBrowser with I2P using these instructions https://geti2p.net/en/about/browser-config They used to work before but they don't anymore. Can anyone figure out whats broken? When connecting to I2P's HTTP proxy I get an error complaining that TorBrowser is speaking something that

[tor-talk] Whonix KVM for Linux users

2014-10-16 Thread bancfc
I wanted to let readers know that there is a KVM version of Whonix for Linux users that has been around for quite some time at this point. It just crossed my mind that I hadn't mentioned here until now. I am making this announcement so those who don't follow our project but may be interested,

[tor-talk] Secure way to set time using Hidden Service descriptors

2014-09-10 Thread bancfc
Hi. As you may already know, NTP doesn't work over Tor and even if it did its untrusted and unauthenticated design leaves systems open to clock skew attacks that could unmask hidden services. What are your thoughts on having an anonymity distro, that Torrifies all traffic, depend on Hidden