Tor-ramdisk 20091123 (i686) and 20091124 (MIPS) released

2009-11-24 Thread basile
Hi everyone,

I want to announce to the list that new rleases of tor-ramdisk are out.
Tor-ramdisk is an i686 and MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution
whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that
maximizes security and privacy.  Security is enhenced by hardening the
kernel and binaries, and privacy is enhanced by forcing logging to be
off at all levels so that even the Tor operator only has access to
minimal information.  Finally, since everything runs in ephemeral
memory, no information survives a reboot, except for the Tor
configuration file and the private RSA key, which may be
exported/imported by FTP.

Changelog:

These releases update tor to 0.2.1.20 and busybox to 1.15.2 on both
architectures.  Users are encouraged to upgrade since these updates
address issues which may effect the memroy-restricted ramdisk environment.

Nodes simba and mufasa have been running the i686 and MIPS versions
for about one week in the wild.


i686:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk-downloads

MIPS:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-mips-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-mips-ramdisk-downloads

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
USA

(716) 829-8197




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livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
order of the USA.
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Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Mearns
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM, James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote:
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 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
 It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
 SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
 That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
 many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
    freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
 I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
 B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
 the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
 Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
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I appreciate your passion for this issue, but this isn't a mailing
list for political issues. Thank you for the update on Tor, please
keep the political content to a minimum.

-Brian

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Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
James Brown wrote:
 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
 It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
 SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
 That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
 many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
 freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
 I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
 B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
 the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
 Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
 order of the USA.

Hello,

I'm heading over to the LJ offices (in San Francisco) to discuss this
ban with them in the next thirty minutes. I'll let you know how it goes
and why it happened.

Best,
Jacob



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Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
 James Brown wrote:
 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
 It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
 SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
 That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
 many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
 freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
 I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
 B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
 the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
 Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
 order of the USA.
 
 Hello,
 
 I'm heading over to the LJ offices (in San Francisco) to discuss this
 ban with them in the next thirty minutes. I'll let you know how it goes
 and why it happened.
 
 Best,
 Jacob
 

Very thanks
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AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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In the context of the above information concerning the ban of Tor's
nodes by the LJ (and in other such cases) I have an idea to provide in
the Tor net for non-public exit-notes.
This solution will be very, very useful for residents of the countries
under tyrannical and fascist regimes like Russia and such others.
P.S. It is very important for residents of such countries because only
such measures can support liberty of speach and privacy for their. I
want all you to know that after many proceedingses against bloggers and
other Internet users in Russian ended  conditional sentences the Putin's
 gestapo was arrest a young girl in Moscow for her writing on Internets
forums etc. on September, 2009.
I think that it is not a last arrest of bloggers in Russia.
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(FWD) Vidalia bundle upgrade fails on OS X

2009-11-24 Thread Roger Dingledine
[Forwarding since this address isn't subscribed to the list. I also
took the liberty of changing the subject line -- I suspect the problem
is that you had an old install of the Vidalia bundle on your OS X, and
you tried to upgrade to the new drag-and-drop one. You should instead
uninstall the old one, and install the new one fresh. The specific
problem here is that if you upgrade wrong, Vidalia doesn't learn the
correct command-line arguments to use when it launches Polipo. -RD]

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To: or-t...@seul.org
From:  C. LeBaron leba...@eml.cc
Subject:  Torbutton proxy test fails
Date:  Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:36:16 +0100

Hello,

I installed the latest stable Vidalia bundle (0.2.1.20-0.2.6) on mac os 10.6.2, 
Tor starts but Torbutton's test fails.

polipo is listening on port 8123, so i did replace 8118 by 8123 in Torbutton 
prefs, to no avail.

I removed privoxy stuff like /Library/Privoxy manually.

Does it ring a bell ?

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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 02:51 +0300, James Brown wrote:
 In the context of the above information concerning the ban of Tor's
 nodes by the LJ (and in other such cases) I have an idea to provide in
 the Tor net for non-public exit-notes.
 This solution will be very, very useful for residents of the countries
 under tyrannical and fascist regimes like Russia and such others.
 P.S. It is very important for residents of such countries because only
 such measures can support liberty of speach and privacy for their. I
 want all you to know that after many proceedingses against bloggers and
 other Internet users in Russian ended  conditional sentences the Putin's
  gestapo was arrest a young girl in Moscow for her writing on Internets
 forums etc. on September, 2009.
 I think that it is not a last arrest of bloggers in Russia.

I like this idea, but I doubt that you'll get much support for it
because it goes against the Tor network's reputation of if you want to
block us, you can.


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Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
James Brown wrote:
 Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
 James Brown wrote:
 The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
 It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
 SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
 That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
 many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
 freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
 I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
 B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
 the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
 Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
 order of the USA.
 Hello,
 
 I'm heading over to the LJ offices (in San Francisco) to discuss this
 ban with them in the next thirty minutes. I'll let you know how it goes
 and why it happened.
 
 Best,
 Jacob
 
 
 Very thanks

Hello again,

In summary:
Mike Perry and I just had a visit to the San Francisco Livejournal
office. The servers at LJ are currently being abused by two users in
Russia. They are currently blocking access to all of the Tor exit nodes
with a rather crufty (but effective) screen scrape of some Tor status
page. They'd like to lift this ban and they'd like to see the abuse
stop. They recognize that many legitimate users are now out in the cold
and they'd like to allow Tor to access LJ.

The service abusing their systems is http://lj2rss.net.ru/; lj2rss
provides a user with an RSS feed of their LJ friends page (normally a
paid service). LJ considers this abuse and has attempted to block this
service. Lj2rss was previously run through basic HTTP proxies. It has
apparently evolved as a service. The lj2rss people decided to ditch HTTP
proxies for the public Tor network. This has caused LJ to filter _all_
access from the Tor network as a quick hack to block their service. LJ
is unhappy with this as they realize this means that many people are not
able to reach LJ. They want to find a solution to this total method of
blocking. They only want to stop lj2rss and not everyone who actually
needs Tor to legitimately use LJ.

We've suggested that rather than outright blocking, users should be
redirected (http 302 rather than 502) to a status page explaining the
outage information. We've also suggested they can have user puzzles or
require a specific login (paid accounts or flagged in some way). As far
as I can tell, this is not a conspiracy by SUP or any other measure
taken on behalf of SUP. The sysadmins at LJ are simply trying to combat
someone abusing their service.

LJ said that they're going to change their status page shortly to
explain the block. They're also working on methods to block the lj2rss
people and not every single user of the Tor network. I hope this is
helpful and that the users of Tor will be able to access LJ services
again shortly.

Best,
Jacob



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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
 See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the
 list of
 relays directly, somebody could still make a lot of connections
 through
 Tor to a test site and build a list of the addresses they see.
 
 I guess we could perhaps add support for configuring your own secret
 exit node that your buddy runs for you. But at that point the
 anonymity
 that Tor can provide in that situation gets pretty fuzzy. 

It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot
less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I
think this is what the original poster meant, anyways.


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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Damian Johnson
Interesting idea, but seems like it could be pretty dangerous. If an
attacker was able to figure out the subset of Tor users taking advantage of
these special exits and ran one themselves then correlation probably
wouldn't be too difficult. In addition, abuse issues makes finding exit
operators a lot harder than bridges so you probably wouldn't get the vast
number of volunteers needed for the current bridge distribution tactics.
-Damian

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
  See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the
  list of
  relays directly, somebody could still make a lot of connections
  through
  Tor to a test site and build a list of the addresses they see.
 
  I guess we could perhaps add support for configuring your own secret
  exit node that your buddy runs for you. But at that point the
  anonymity
  that Tor can provide in that situation gets pretty fuzzy.

 It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot
 less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I
 think this is what the original poster meant, anyways.



Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Kyle Williams

Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

James Brown wrote:
  

Jacob Appelbaum wrote:


James Brown wrote:
  

The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor.
It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company
SUP by order of Putin and FSB.
That decision of Russian powers of purshacing the LJ was adopted because
many Russian oppositionists used it in the conditions of suffocation of
freedom of speech by  Putin's bloody fascist regim.
I think that all progressive humanity must require from the US President
B. Obama to order the FBI to investigate the circumstances of purshasing
the LJ by Russian company that was acted obviously as an agent of
Russian secret services against the foundations of the constitutional
order of the USA.


Hello,
  
I'm heading over to the LJ offices (in San Francisco) to discuss this

ban with them in the next thirty minutes. I'll let you know how it goes
and why it happened.
  
Best,

Jacob
  

Very thanks



Hello again,

In summary:
Mike Perry and I just had a visit to the San Francisco Livejournal
office. The servers at LJ are currently being abused by two users in
Russia. They are currently blocking access to all of the Tor exit nodes
with a rather crufty (but effective) screen scrape of some Tor status
page. They'd like to lift this ban and they'd like to see the abuse
stop. They recognize that many legitimate users are now out in the cold
and they'd like to allow Tor to access LJ.

The service abusing their systems is http://lj2rss.net.ru/; lj2rss
provides a user with an RSS feed of their LJ friends page (normally a
paid service). LJ considers this abuse and has attempted to block this
service. Lj2rss was previously run through basic HTTP proxies. It has
apparently evolved as a service. The lj2rss people decided to ditch HTTP
proxies for the public Tor network. This has caused LJ to filter _all_
access from the Tor network as a quick hack to block their service. LJ
is unhappy with this as they realize this means that many people are not
able to reach LJ. They want to find a solution to this total method of
blocking. They only want to stop lj2rss and not everyone who actually
needs Tor to legitimately use LJ.

We've suggested that rather than outright blocking, users should be
redirected (http 302 rather than 502) to a status page explaining the
outage information. We've also suggested they can have user puzzles or
require a specific login (paid accounts or flagged in some way). As far
as I can tell, this is not a conspiracy by SUP or any other measure
taken on behalf of SUP. The sysadmins at LJ are simply trying to combat
someone abusing their service.

LJ said that they're going to change their status page shortly to
explain the block. They're also working on methods to block the lj2rss
people and not every single user of the Tor network. I hope this is
helpful and that the users of Tor will be able to access LJ services
again shortly.

Best,
Jacob

  
Thank you for checking this out and getting the facts back to the 
community so quickly.


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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Flamsmark
I'm not sure that the correlation attacks for `bridge exits' are better than
those for normal bridges. However, the `exit risk' would likely be more
discouraging to such `bridge exits'. However, as a more general question,
making the Tor network difficult to completely enumerate might be
interesting. Clearly, there are valuable advantages to a hard-to-map
network, but can it be done without gross disadvantages?


2009/11/24 Damian Johnson atag...@gmail.com

 Interesting idea, but seems like it could be pretty dangerous. If an
 attacker was able to figure out the subset of Tor users taking advantage of
 these special exits and ran one themselves then correlation probably
 wouldn't be too difficult. In addition, abuse issues makes finding exit
 operators a lot harder than bridges so you probably wouldn't get the vast
 number of volunteers needed for the current bridge distribution tactics.
 -Damian


 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
  See especially point #1: even if we didn't tell clients about the
  list of
  relays directly, somebody could still make a lot of connections
  through
  Tor to a test site and build a list of the addresses they see.
 
  I guess we could perhaps add support for configuring your own secret
  exit node that your buddy runs for you. But at that point the
  anonymity
  that Tor can provide in that situation gets pretty fuzzy.

 It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot
 less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I
 think this is what the original poster meant, anyways.





Danish TPB DNS Blocks

2009-11-24 Thread Flamsmark
A number of Danish ISPs have blocked thepiratebay.org, by redirecting the
DNS entry for that domain to a page stating that the site is blocked. This
sometimes results in Danish exits giving this inappropriate result for that
domain. Should the IP addresses of those ISPs be automatically given the
badexit flag, since they don't do DNS in a correct and neutral way?


Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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Roger Dingledine wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:51:57AM +0300, James Brown wrote:
 
 Alas, livejournal's hand here might be forced by their new owners. In
 that case, the only answer I can think of is for everybody in the affected
 countries to jump ship.
 
 --Roger
 
 It is a very good idea, but if they didn't if after purshasing the LG
of the SUP - I think it will be very difficult to convince them do it now.
Many of them (not am I - after my arrest in the year 2007 I use only the
Tor for either activities in blogs or for banking transations) don't use
the Tor.
I tell many of them to use the Tor but they don't do it even after
arrests of their comrades.
Russian mentalty...
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Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

 Hello again,
 
 In summary:
 Mike Perry and I just had a visit to the San Francisco Livejournal
 office. The servers at LJ are currently being abused by two users in
 Russia. They are currently blocking access to all of the Tor exit nodes
 with a rather crufty (but effective) screen scrape of some Tor status
 page. They'd like to lift this ban and they'd like to see the abuse
 stop. They recognize that many legitimate users are now out in the cold
 and they'd like to allow Tor to access LJ.
 
 The service abusing their systems is http://lj2rss.net.ru/; lj2rss
 provides a user with an RSS feed of their LJ friends page (normally a
 paid service). LJ considers this abuse and has attempted to block this
 service. Lj2rss was previously run through basic HTTP proxies. It has
 apparently evolved as a service. The lj2rss people decided to ditch HTTP
 proxies for the public Tor network. This has caused LJ to filter _all_
 access from the Tor network as a quick hack to block their service. LJ
 is unhappy with this as they realize this means that many people are not
 able to reach LJ. They want to find a solution to this total method of
 blocking. They only want to stop lj2rss and not everyone who actually
 needs Tor to legitimately use LJ.
 
 We've suggested that rather than outright blocking, users should be
 redirected (http 302 rather than 502) to a status page explaining the
 outage information. We've also suggested they can have user puzzles or
 require a specific login (paid accounts or flagged in some way). As far
 as I can tell, this is not a conspiracy by SUP or any other measure
 taken on behalf of SUP. The sysadmins at LJ are simply trying to combat
 someone abusing their service.
 
 LJ said that they're going to change their status page shortly to
 explain the block. They're also working on methods to block the lj2rss
 people and not every single user of the Tor network. I hope this is
 helpful and that the users of Tor will be able to access LJ services
 again shortly.
 
 Best,
 Jacob
 

Very thanks.
But did they say you about a character of that abuse?
I thin that only an RSS feed of  LJ friends pages is not a serious
ground for blocking the Tor network.
If they did such not by order of the SUP for protection of the Russian
dictatorship I can't understand why the SUP by they 2 years ago. For
latent  shadowing against Russian oppositionists for the Federal
security service of Russia?
I was very sleepy when you wrote your letter (it was about 3 a.m at my
place) and I coudn't recognize that I could try ask them a question
concerning the next.
By the information of Russian press (see, particularly
http://www.newsru.com/russia/10nov2009/vkontakte.html ) the secret
services of Russia arrested estimated murders of Markelov (many people
in Russia think that they are not real murders because real economic
base of Markelov's murder was deforestation of the Khimki forest against
which Markelov fighted and any version about the revenge of
nationalists have not under it real economic and money base and seems
very absurd) through LJ activity of them.
In accordance with this information they had access to the LJ not
through the Tor but through the specific public wifi - so-called WIMAX,
from account registered on assumed name.
So, the Russian secret services had needed an information about
ip-addresses of those users of the LJ for computing their through   
triangulation with  beam gain antennas.
So, we can suspect that those ip-addresses were given to Russian secret
services by the SUP besides the official inquiry of Russian authorities
to the US authorities (as I know there is not an agreement on mutual
assistance in criminal matters between Russia and the USA).
If it was really so, it was an obvious interference of Russian
government in internal affairs of the USA in accordance with
international law.
I don't know about the US criminal law but such actions are examined as
an espionage by the Russain Criminal Code.
I think that the notion of an espionage is approximately equal in all
countries.
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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread James Brown
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Ted Smith wrote:
 On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:49 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:

 
 It's like a bridge, but for exits. They would probably have to be a lot
 less friend-to-friend than bridges, but it might still be doable. I
 think this is what the original poster meant, anyways.

Yes, I meant  exactly that.
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Re: AN idea of non-public exit-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Scott Bennett
 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:09:16 +0300 James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com
wrote:
Roger Dingledine wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:51:57AM +0300, James Brown wrote:
 
 Alas, livejournal's hand here might be forced by their new owners. In
 that case, the only answer I can think of is for everybody in the affected
 countries to jump ship.
 
 --Roger
 
 It is a very good idea, but if they didn't if after purshasing the LG
of the SUP - I think it will be very difficult to convince them do it now.
Many of them (not am I - after my arrest in the year 2007 I use only the
Tor for either activities in blogs or for banking transations) don't use
the Tor.
I tell many of them to use the Tor but they don't do it even after
arrests of their comrades.
Russian mentalty...

 Yes, one certainly has to wonder whether it is a wasted effort to help
those who *do not want* to help themselves.  Those who wish to surrender are
probably those we should thank for purging themselves from the gene pool.
OTOH, your efforts to inform them at large will probably help the few who
*do* wish to defend themselves but simply didn't know about the threat.


  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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