Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 22:24, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? > Because it's the default search engine in Firefox The reason Google is the default search engine in Firefox is that Firefox gets money from Google for putting it as the

[tor-talk] [Freedombox-discuss] Important update to PlugServer Setup Scripts

2012-01-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Nick Daly - From: Nick Daly Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:24:28 -0600 To: freedombox-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Important update to PlugServer Setup Scripts User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Krbusek Christian
Ehlo, Am 2012-01-11 13:34, schrieb Klaus Layer: > I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay > operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this > survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. same email received today a

[tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Klaus Layer
Hi all, I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. Best regards, Klaus - original message --- Dear Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread morphium
Hi! 2012/1/11 Klaus Layer : > Hi all, > > I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay > operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this > survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. They contacted me aswell, yes. I revi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread Gijs
received the same letter, I guess the reason for not contacting this list is that the reach is bigger if directly contacting tor relay operators. Anybody know what new attack he is speaking of ? I'm a bit doubtfull of giving sys info, even though the info seems harmless with the recently new devel

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Mirko
Maxim Kammerer schrieb am 11.01.2012 10:22:58 > However, by keeping that setting you are compromising the privacy > of the users, since, for instance, Google tracks clicks on the > returned results (it uses redirecting links). DuckDuckGo does > that as well. As far as I am able to tell, ixquick do

Re: [tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

2012-01-11 Thread Gijs
Why not run something like "redsocks" (first hit on transparent socks) http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/ on VM1 ? It is a program that sits in between the proxy and client. You then configure the firewall running on VM1 to redirect traffic only through redsocks and allow no other connections. I'd use F

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi, > The reason you are receiving this message is that, to improve our > study, we require some extra information about the Relay(s) you are > running that, unfortunately, is not publicly available. I'm curious how such extra information will improve their study, if/why knowing such private info

[tor-talk] reply-to: list surprising on a privacy-centric list

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Troxel
I just sent a private reply to a posting here. I was surprised that reply began to compose a message to the list instead of to the individual sender as it should have, but did notice in time. The problem of course is the Reply-To: header that points to the list. I know there are pro and anti li

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread 5...@gmx.de
Sebastian Hahn schrieb am 10.01.2012 21:24:55 >> 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? > > Because it's the default search engine in Firefox > >> 2. Does TOR get money from Google >> a) for using Google as the default search engine? > > No. > >> b) in general

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 15:53, Mirko <5...@gmx.de> wrote: > Maxim Kammerer schrieb am 11.01.2012 10:22:58 > > Are you referring to this (from https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html)? Yes, and I didn't know that DuckDuckGo allows turning redirection off in the settings and via the URL parameters. Refe

[tor-talk] Error binding network socket: Address already in use

2012-01-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, I see a lot of scary warnings in the Tor logs on our high bandwidth nodes (>400 Mbps): "Error binding network socket: Address already in use". All servers are configured equally, running multiple Tor processes. I also apply sysctl tweaks, see http://www.torservers.net/misc/config/sysctl.conf

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Griffin
I set the default search engine to DuckDuckGo when not using the browser bundle, and before that Yahoo was my default. DuckDuckGo seems to be a bit faster than Yahoo, but both work better than Google's almost constant search failure. Having a hidden service as the default search might improve

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/10/2012 2:02 PM, Curious Kid wrote: Insinuating that Tor is adware and that the Tor Project is being compensated for delivering user data is outrageous. There's been a recent increase in FUD (because of the SOPA vote?), but this is pretty over the top. 1st, there's no such thing as a free

Re: [tor-talk] Tor survey

2012-01-11 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 07:34:35 Klaus Layer wrote: > Hi all, > > I just received an email about a tor relay survey. Do other tor relay > operators received the same email? Does anyone know something about this > survey? I am wondering why this mailing list was not contacted before. I did not

Re: [tor-talk] Error binding network socket: Address already in use

2012-01-11 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 06:33:14PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote: > I see a lot of scary warnings in the Tor logs on our high bandwidth > nodes (>400 Mbps): "Error binding network socket: Address already in use". We recently saw this on noisetor until we set tcp_tw_recycle = 1. https://www.noisebridg

Re: [tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

2012-01-11 Thread Kyle Williams
1) You didn't e-mail me or coderman directly and 2) I don't always stay on top of the Tor mailing list so 3) Here's your open source solution the Tor project paid us for. http://janusvm.com/tor_vm/ For whatever reason, ask Roger or someone else, Tor VM isn't hosted on the torproject.org site anym

[tor-talk] FireFTP & FireSSH

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Kalitnikoff
Hi all. I just want to inform tor-talks that I had a productive dialog with these extension`s developer and FireFTP`s DNS leakage is fixed now. If someone interested - please make some testing. Here are some details of our conversation: Hey Greg, I think I might have a solution for this. I've u

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Survey

2012-01-11 Thread Andy Isaacson
Hi Marco, Please discuss the DoS in public forums, I'm not interested in helping you hide details of your supposed attack. The norms for open source development may conflict with your expectations of scientific papers, but that's your problem not ours. -andy On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:47:37AM +

Re: [tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

2012-01-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11.01.2012 21:40, Kyle Williams wrote: > I would recommend you download this ASAP if you want it as I'm dumping my > hosting provider at the end of the week and I haven't picked a replacement > yet. Thanks for pointing that out. Although it is deprecated, I don't think the world needs to lose i

[tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-11 Thread skep
Hi, I've put up some graphical world maps of the tor user to internet population per country ratio. Tor user statistics are from https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html and the internet pop. per country data from the world factbook site (latest data set is from 2009). To cut a long story short,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Survey

2012-01-11 Thread Pascal
The posted script uses the "openssl speed" command to evaluate the node's encryption performance. This command iterates through every algorithm OpenSSL supports, most of which Tor doesn't use. There is also a bug in OpenSSL where the speed command alone does not utilize encryption accelerator