On 11 August 2013 03:39, Griffin Boyce <griffinbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2013 12:51 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
>> Some other random stats for the curious.
>>
>> Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65)
>> Vidalia 0.2.21 (QT 4.8.1)
>>
>> # Configured for speed
>> ExcludeSingleHopRelays 0
>> EnforceDistinctSubnets 0
>> AllowSingleHopCircuits 1
>>
>> # Exclude countries that might have blocks
>> ExcludeExitNodes {dk},{ie},{gb},{nl},{be},{it},{cn},{ir},{fi},{no}
>>
>> #Selected user prefs
>> user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://6kkgg7nth3sbuuwd.onion";);
>> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "PB0.6b Mozilla/5.0 (Windows
>> NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0");
>>
>> -tom
> It's pretty surprising that the Pirate Bay went this route. I have a
> hard time believing that it isn't just some kind of publicity stunt.
> They also released the browser as an exe when the site doesn't use
> SSL/https. Which is kind of an interesting choice, considering their
> stated desire to target Iran (of all places).
>
> About a year ago, I wrote a quick Chrome plugin for torrenters to
> bypass the common DNS blocks on TPB and similar sites.
In the UK I thought blocks were IP-based, hence this piece of
amusement: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sky-torrentfreak-blocking.
> Users from the
> UK and the Netherlands (both places where they have a large userbase)
> had recently been blocked from accessing TPB. I have a hard time
> believing that Iran represents more than a negligible number of possible
> Pirate Bay users. It could be a scheme to get more of their users to
> use privacy-protecting techniques, but a guide might have more of an
> effect there. If their only goal is to bypass censorship of this one
> site, there are easier methods that are just as effective. The plugin I
> made was trivial to write and it wouldn't be difficult for the pirate
> bay to do something similar (quite a few plugins exist already, and it
> wouldn't be hard to just pick one to promote).
>
> ~Griffin
>
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