Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/16/2011 3:05 PM, Julian Yon wrote: On 16/10/11 17:57, William Wrightman wrote: When you have finished then you close the partition. Now the password is cleared from the RAM. Thoughts? If you (or someone you ultimately trust) didn't write or audit the code yourself then you are making a

Re: [tor-talk] since today check.torproject.org states "you are not using tor"

2011-10-16 Thread andrew
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 06:09:32PM +0800, 2choon...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 26 lines about: : I also notice that vadalia control panel is not closing itself after I : have closed the browser. Another bug? Please read the rest of this thread, problem already solved. -- Andrew pgp key: 0x74

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On 16/10/11 17:57, William Wrightman wrote: > When you have finished then you close the partition. Now the > password is cleared from the RAM. > > Thoughts? If you (or someone you ultimately trust) didn't write or audit the code yourself then you are making a huge assumption there. Julian --

Re: [tor-talk] Live CD for using Tor

2011-10-16 Thread phil...@bailey.st
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2011 04:11 PM, Achter Lieber wrote: > Hello. > Can Tor be used on a live CD at internet shops or cafes? > They are not wifi and all such places here use > W...W...W...W...Windows. > I'm guessing many are "p...p...p...p...pilfered" > sa...

Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

2011-10-16 Thread Simon Nicolussi
fido dido wrote: > i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information > about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker > knows all the peers. These would be the directory authorities that can be found in the function add_default_trusted_dir_authorities in src

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread William Wrightman
> Full disk encryption is possible. For > Debian or Ubuntu you can enable I don't really understand the apparent benefit of full disk encryption as opposed to using TrueCrypt partitions. AIUI if you are using FDE then the password is stored in the RAM while the computer is on. If the co

[tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

2011-10-16 Thread fido dido
hi, whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup and where does it go? i couldnt find any information on google or torproject.org... i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker knows a

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora or Firefox?

2011-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On 16/10/11 15:17, Achter Lieber wrote: > Hello. > I keep seeing mention made of Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle but > my download version has something called Aurora. Why is this or is it just > out of habit of using Firefox before one remembers and switches lingo? Aurora is what Firefox cal

[tor-talk] Aurora or Firefox?

2011-10-16 Thread Achter Lieber
Hello. I keep seeing mention made of Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle but my download version has something called Aurora. Why is this or is it just out of habit of using Firefox before one remembers and switches lingo? Aurora is now the new browser being used by the Tor bundle? Yes/No? Tha

[tor-talk] Live CD for using Tor

2011-10-16 Thread Achter Lieber
Hello. Can Tor be used on a live CD at internet shops or cafes? They are not wifi and all such places here use W...W...W...W...Windows. I'm guessing many are "p...p...p...p...pilfered" sa...sa...sa...sa...sorry about that. I'm a stud...studstud... studderer but a message pops up many tim

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2011-10-16 Thread Achter Lieber
- Original Message - From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall Sent: 10/15/11 06:38 PM To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] (no subject) Yeah, if you close Tor before Aurora (instead of closing Aurora first then the TBB Vidalia), Aurora will try to restore your last session on next

Re: [tor-talk] since today check.torproject.org states "you are not using tor"

2011-10-16 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Andrew Hall wrote: > I've been using the TBB 2.2.33-2-Windows for the past week or so. > Since this morning when the browser goes to the home page - > check.torproject.org - it says "Sorry. You are not using Tor" and states my > "...IP address appears to be: 38

Re: [tor-talk] since today check.torproject.org states "you are not using tor"

2011-10-16 Thread Andreas Bader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15.10.2011 22:42, Robert Ransom wrote: > On 2011-10-15, Andreas Bader wrote: >> On 15.10.2011 22:16, Andrew Hall wrote: >>> I've been using the TBB 2.2.33-2-Windows for the past week or so. >>> >>> Since this morning when the browser goes to the ho