[tor-relays] connecting to obfsproxy bridge from OSX10.9 and TorBrowser-Pluggable-Transports-2.4.17-beta-2-pt3-osx-i386

2013-11-02 Thread Paul Garrett Hugel
Please steer me to the correct list if off topic hereRemote machine is Ubuntuobfsproxy bridge on amazon ec2 using ARMMy local machine running 10.9 Mavericks withTorBrowser-Pluggable-Transports-2.4.17-beta-2-pt3-osx-i386I read the trouble ticket

[tor-relays] Blocking filesharing traffic (was: Re: Amazon abuse report)

2013-11-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11/01/2013 07:22 PM, Nelson wrote: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor?

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11/02/2013 01:15 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: Publication of sample exit policies? Would that encourage exit node operators to run restricted exit policies, and save themselves loads of bandwidth and DMCA headache? Is there a forum where one can put up a sticky post with sample exit

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 20:02:29 Gordon Morehouse wrote: What if someone inside a totalitarian state is attempting to upload evidence of a massacre to a service which runs on port 80? Yeah, I did think of this but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. Unfortunately, too many sites/services

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 13:21:39 Moritz Bartl wrote: On 11/02/2013 01:15 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: Publication of sample exit policies? Would that encourage exit node operators to run restricted exit policies, and save themselves loads of bandwidth and DMCA headache? Is there a forum

Re: [tor-relays] connecting to obfsproxy bridge from OSX10.9 and TorBrowser-Pluggable-Transports-2.4.17-beta-2-pt3-osx-i386

2013-11-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Paul Garrett Hugel: Please steer me to the correct list if off topic here Remote machine is Ubuntu obfsproxy bridge on amazon ec2 using ARM My local machine running 10.9 Mavericks with

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11/02/2013 02:46 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: I'm just finding it difficult to accept that there's little to be done. As far as I can see, the only way BitTorrent content distibution can work across Tor is because exits are allowing accept *:* as their exit policy - torrent clients

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Paritesh Boyeyoko: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 20:02:29 Gordon Morehouse wrote: What if someone inside a totalitarian state is attempting to upload evidence of a massacre to a service which runs on port 80? Yeah, I did think of this but I

Re: [tor-relays] dynamically adjusting bandwidth

2013-11-02 Thread starlight . 2013q4
The question is, should I put in an adjustment for 'MaxAdvertisedBandwidth' during the backup window or make any other change to advise remote relays to de-prioritize the node for the duration? Another unanswered question now understood: As a consequence of a simple parameter tweak, Vidalia

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 17:10:50 Moritz Bartl wrote: As one of the large operators that indeed allows exiting on all ports except 25: This is on purpose. I don't consider applications that choose random ports as bad, I don't consider file sharing per se as bad. I don't want to interfere with

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 14:39:28 Gordon Morehouse wrote: Completely aside from the ethical and censorship-related buzzsaw you're about to run into for posting this (perennial) question, I believe some actual developers on Tor have written a paper about the problems with Bittorrent et al (and I

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread I
Putting the extensive exit restriction policy in the responses to take-down demands seems like a good idea. Robert Publication of sample exit policies? Would that encourage exit node operators to run restricted exit policies, and save themselves loads of bandwidth and DMCA headache?

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-02 Thread tor
I'm new to running a relay. There are lots of exit policies when I look at my atlas details: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/DDB401F4CA108C6F6AF4E0DCE2DFC3407F577B21 Is this a pretty good exit policy list to prevent harassment from my ISP? Thanks! -Jamie M. Putting the extensive exit