[tor-talk] What do bridge operators expect when providing a ContactInfo line?

2013-09-30 Thread Karsten Loesing
Hi bridge operators, Nick rightly suggests moving this discussion from Trac here: What do bridge operators expect when providing a ContactInfo line? Details are on Trac, pasting below: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9854 There's an interesting question in the Tor StackExchange

[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 tim

[tor-talk] Gnu30 hackathon report

2013-09-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! The Tor hackathon at the gnu30 event went fairly well, I think. Two people sent me small built/test patches which I've merged into the Tor mainline, and a few more have promised me test improvements and other patches. I also met a lot of cool hackers, and talked with people from other fr

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 ide

[tor-talk] Atlas

2013-09-30 Thread Jon
Are the Atlas site down for upgrades or repairs? Any idea how long they will be down? Tnks, Jon -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Atlas

2013-09-30 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 9/30/13 8:27 PM, Jon wrote: > Are the Atlas site down for upgrades or repairs? Any idea how long they > will be down? Should be back now. The server that's feeding Atlas with data was down for 30 hours and took a while to catch up. I cannot guarantee that everything will work perfectly in the

[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 sa

Re: [tor-talk] Why the Web of Trust Sucks

2013-09-30 Thread isis
Mike Perry transcribed 6.8K bytes: > Joel R. Voss: > > Hi Mike, > > > > I'm writing a blog post about web of trust. I'm looking for any weaknesses > > I > > can find in it because I'm writing a piece of software that would be > > designed > > to help grow it. I'd appreciate if you could give m

Re: [tor-talk] [monkeysphere] [Fwd: Why the Web of Trust Sucks]

2013-09-30 Thread Ted Smith
Thanks for the reply, dkg! I think you sent this before finishing a few paragraphs -- I've marked them below. On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 19:20 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > 2. Every time I verify a signature from a key sent to an email address > > that is not mine (like a mailinglist), my ma

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-09-30 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 9/30/2013 6:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: 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 t

Re: [tor-talk] [monkeysphere] [Fwd: Why the Web of Trust Sucks]

2013-09-30 Thread Mike Perry
Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > [i'm not subscribed to tor-talk and can't afford the bandwidth to > participate in another list, but i'd be happy to be Cc'ed on any > responses to this thread] Likewise, I am not on monkeysphere. Monkeysphere users: Please keep me on Cc. People on-list: Forgive the extensi

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-09-30 Thread Andreas Krey
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:14:25 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... > I don't know where / how it gets the screen size, but mine definitely > isn't 947 wide. It's actually a very common size. Tor browser seems to use the windows size as the display size. > I assume the color depth is bit value. Panopti

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-09-30 Thread Andreas Krey
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), but their estimate of > "One in X browsers