Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-27 Thread Bill Weiss
o the mix, since it should be authenticated and TLSed (despite the occasional evidence otherwise). -- Bill Weiss Break yo pipe man, and the funny dudes scribblin' licence plates go away. -- Kha0s, alt.2600 *** To

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-18 Thread Bill Weiss
Scott Bennett(benn...@cs.niu.edu)@Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:24:56AM -0500: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:54:31 -0500 Bill Weiss > wrote: > >Scott: if the current owner doesn't have an account set up, _you_ could go > >to the OpenDNS page (via Tor so it come from that IP) an

Re: BadExit flag still needed for PrivacyNow...

2010-04-18 Thread Bill Weiss
esults in caches for hosts, passwd, > group, services, protocols, and RPCs. Additional, system-particular > caches can also be defined if one has the need to do so. Assuming your ISP doesn't damage your queries for you or redirect outgoing port 53 activity to their servers, setting up Bi

Re: Tor-friendly dedicated hosting

2010-04-17 Thread Bill Weiss
Bill Weiss(houdini+...@clanspum.net)@Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 02:58:51PM -0500: > krishna e bera(k...@cyblings.on.ca)@Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 03:52:44PM -0400: > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Bill Weiss wrote: > > > My apologies if there's some canonical source f

Re: Tor-friendly dedicated hosting

2010-04-17 Thread Bill Weiss
krishna e bera(k...@cyblings.on.ca)@Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 03:52:44PM -0400: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Bill Weiss wrote: > > My apologies if there's some canonical source for this I'm missing. I > > didn't see anything in the archives of the list for

Tor-friendly dedicated hosting

2010-04-17 Thread Bill Weiss
propriately). However, not a lot of providers are willing to do that without a good reason. Thanks for any input you have. As well, as you can imagine, my node is down until I get this resolved. -- Bill Weiss Scissors Kills Paper, Rock; Turns Blade on Self -- Tomboko, plastic.com

Re: What can see a server of a Bittorent when I contact with it through Tor?

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Weiss
imum wage and making enough to buy whatever you're downloading. Even free stuff, which you could pay someone to burn to disk and mail you. 2) Don't do that. DMCA notices to exit nodes by people who don't realize the above suck, and will cost us exits in the long run. -- Bi

Re: doesn't take long for the dmca's notices to start rolling in..

2009-12-18 Thread Bill Weiss
th, and one a couple of days ago (from different companies). I used the form letter from the Tor site, and my hosting provider seemed happy enough with the results. It waxes and wanes :) -- Bill Weiss Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Bill Weiss
Tor, whatever. They might even be able to tell you not to surf porn from that connection, mattering on what their TOS looks like. Like it? No. Live with it? You have to, unless you find a provider that sucks less. -- Bill Weiss The ten commandments of hooking anything to anything IX. Always set aside an ample amount of time to do thy work, for what looks simple now, might not look so simple 2 hours later when thou comes back from wherever thou came.

Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

2009-08-10 Thread Bill Weiss
rything is capped or > AUP'd up the wazoo, to the point where you will *not* get what you paid > for. Speakeasy.net is happy to let you use your connection. They're also significantly more expensive than your normal home-use DSL or cable. Worth it? Your call. -- Bill Weiss No tool is inherently good or evil. Okay, except maybe for Frontpage. -- Mike Sphar

Re: Suggested IT Text... Edit or destroy as fitting.

2009-06-30 Thread Bill Weiss
ems, Tor can make internet resources available, when > the actual ISP is malfunctioning. This can be invaluable is crisis > situations. Similar to all of these: * To troubleshoot connectivity problems from the outside of their network (i.e. to see what parts of the internet can or can't see their site). ? -- Bill Weiss

Re: Conspiracy: Piratebay owned by CIA (TOR involved, also)

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Weiss
ey called and wrote! I thought I was in trouble! *digs through the shred bin* -- Bill Weiss I hope they die together in Belen, and that's my only opinion about that. -- overheard cell-phone conversation pgpfY1OjgrM2C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ports 465/587 in exit policy (was Re: Update to default exit policy)

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Weiss
F. Fox([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:27:08PM -0700: > Bill Weiss wrote: > (snip) > > My Tor node runs a medium-load mail server as well, and I've never been > > blacklisted for spam stuff [1]. That seems like a decent indication of it > > not causing prob

Re: Ports 465/587 in exit policy (was Re: Update to default exit policy)

2008-09-07 Thread Bill Weiss
s like a decent indication of it not causing problems given how rabid the anti-spam people can get. 1: I've gotten blacklisted twice by SORBS for "virus" activities, which were people using IRC (for bad things, I assume) via my node. That doesn't count. -- Bill Weiss Going

Re: Ports 465/587 in exit policy (was Re: Update to default exit policy)

2008-09-04 Thread Bill Weiss
raffic for at least a year. In that time I've received one complaint about that traffic. I spent a few hours explaining the problems to them (if you have your mail server listening on port 587, just like your port 25 listener but without any spam filters, it's going to suck!), and that

Re: Default Exit Policy

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Weiss
ISSION port, even for a message having a RCPT TO address that would not cause the message to be relayed outside of the local administrative domain. None of the actual standards have a MUST for this. I'd been meaning to email the list and ask if anyone else was having problems relaying 587. So, anyone else? :) -- Bill Weiss

Re: Defeat Exit Node Sniffing?

2008-03-06 Thread Bill Weiss
it is correct. Sorry, no general-case solution, just some help for the Gmail users :) [1] http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-gmail-2-firefox-extension-for-new-gmail-320618.php -- Bill Weiss A system composed of 100,000 lines of C++ is not be sneezed at, but we

Re: List Suggestion

2008-01-06 Thread Bill Weiss
7;m filtering them into their own label. Not all of their email, of course, but enough. -- Bill Weiss speed a better study aide than anything the Princeton Review ever published. -- The Devil's Dictionary X

Re: Connections to botnet masters

2007-08-27 Thread Bill Weiss
reject *: # IRC I'm sure that this doesn't cover everything, and that there is collateral damage from this block, but it seems to work for me. Good luck! -- Bill Weiss I don't have anything for you, man. Good job on the fertilization and everything, but your situation is still something I'm desperately trying to avoid. -- Tycho, Penny Arcade

Re: End of ROCKate soon

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Weiss
be really happy if someone can host it outside Germany. I don't think > they can sue me because I did the work before the law passed. What are the bandwidth/month requirements? I might be able to do it off of my Tor server without too much pain. -- Bill Weiss