Re: Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users

2021-12-07 Thread zeynepaydogan
Don’t use Tor. It does not provide anonymity. The Tor network transmits your information directly to the CIA. Someone I used to know worked there. He then found a high-status job on Google.LOL 5, 2021 20:03, jim bell wrote: > Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-12-05 Thread grarpamp
> https://therecord.media/a-mysterious-threat-actor-is-running-hundreds-of-malicious-tor-relays/ > A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays... Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users.

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-12-05 Thread grarpamp
https://therecord.media/a-mysterious-threat-actor-is-running-hundreds-of-malicious-tor-relays/ A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays... If you knew how many nodes have been both removed since years, and how many are still running and coming every day, you would

Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users

2021-12-05 Thread jim bell
Gizmodo: Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network and Might Be De-Anonymizing Users. https://gizmodo.com/someone-is-running-hundreds-of-malicious-servers-on-the-1848156630

Re: [tor-relays] Relays running an unsupported (EOL) Tor version

2021-10-28 Thread grarpamp
ome nextgen p2p overlay-exit networks are now working with... there can be other reasons people may run different versions... tor the software is different from from Tor Project Inc. The software is opensource and BSD licensed. Thus anyone may copy, run, share, redistribute, fork, modify, support

Re: [tor-talk] Dishonest tor relay attack math question

2021-10-27 Thread grarpamp
> But they are launching a censored > "forum" soon so that those who don't like censored "lists" > can freely choose another way to be censored. Here is the new place to go if you want to be censored by these freespeech hypocrites and whitewashers of user risk, corporate embarassment, and design w

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-18 Thread zeynepaydogan
that was really good.LOL. > So someone lurks the list masturbating to it for years > without ever posting a single word, then such claimed LAUGH OUT LOUD :) Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 18, 2021 10:43, grarpamp yazdı: >> I was here, living in the Bay Area >> ... >> sitting aroun

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-18 Thread zeynepaydogan
that was really good.LOL. > So someone lurks the list masturbating to it for years > without ever posting a single word, then such claimed LAUGH OUT LOUD :) Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 18, 2021 10:43, grarpamp yazdı: >> I was here, living in the Bay Area >> ... >> sitting aroun

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-18 Thread grarpamp
> I was here, living in the Bay Area > ... > sitting around, looking at porn and jacking off > ... > on people from the shadows So someone lurks the list masturbating to it for years without ever posting a single word, then such claimed code expert decides to hello world just to whine that they ch

Re: Dick move (was Re: TOR internal logs)

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
yeah, so he can hide that he's a nationalist asshole like you Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 18, 2021 09:28, Xander Samurai yazdı: >> By the way, responding to a private email to a public list, outing >> someone's private email address, is generally considered to be a dick >> move,

Dick move (was Re: TOR internal logs)

2021-10-17 Thread Xander Samurai
> By the way, responding to a private email to a public list, outing > someone's private email address, is generally considered to be a dick > move, especially when it's done deliberately. Dear Ed, This list is not what it used to be years ago. It's FULL of dicks! With no dignity, no basic ethics,

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
The problem is, we're not gonna get rid of you and Trump supporters like you. I'm trying to make sure they don't use the Tor network instead of shading people. I'm preventing them from using a network that clearly connects to the CIA. you're a dickhead who knows no

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread Ed Carp
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, space aliens made zeynepaydogan write: The question is, what is a guy like you doing here. There's no place for nationalists here I was here before you were born. I was here, living in the Bay Area and having dinner with Tim May, when this whole list started. I met Eric

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
gt; ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 11:56 PM, zeynepaydogan > wrote: > >> yes, you can work for the tor and work on Google in the moment. it's yours >> to have that hypocrisy >> >> Sent from ProtonMail for iOS >> >

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
yes, you can work for the tor and work on Google in the moment. it's yours to have that hypocrisy Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 18, 2021 01:23, Ed Carp yazdı: > Considering that Google has moved 180 degrees from it's "Do no evil" founding > to giving

Dick move (was Re: TOR internal logs)

2021-10-17 Thread Ed Carp
By the way, responding to a private email to a public list, outing someone's private email address, is generally considered to be a dick move, especially when it's done deliberately.

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
Do you think it’ ok? Is everything all right? Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 18, 2021 01:03, Ed Carp yazdı: > Isn't the Google NDA incompatible with working at Tor? > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
Yup. It was never the end. The question we need to ask is how much @torproject getting paid for it. They criticized Google's privacy policy. Ironically, a software developer working in Tor is currently working at Google. what position does he/she’s work in? “Privacy Lead” Sent from Proto

Re: TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread grarpamp
This is an IRC log from #tor-internal - our water cooler irc channel. It was made on November 10th, 2014. I have created this log because it is absolutely essential that everyone on tor-internal@ see the internal live chat related to the recent tor-internal@ mailing thread. Please be considerate

TOR internal logs

2021-10-17 Thread zeynepaydogan
22:20 < ioerror> If we have a CIA person working at Tor, many of us will be put in danger . https://medium.com/@zeynep.201844/tor-b1cd6ec45542 Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread PrivacyArms
>> Thing is, I don't trust Claudia to get it right (we have a history... ). history? ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, October 16, 2021 1:34 PM, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > On 16/10/2021 10:12, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:24 AM Peter Fairbrother pe...@ts

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread Stefan Claas
. > > > > The loopix part looks interesting, at first glance. Though "a > measure of sender and receiver unobservability" is not exactly reassuring.. Well, I mentioned Nym, because, once in production, it could be an alternative to Tor. They already have a test net running

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread grarpamp
nd, but... - You don't have to, users will emit more chances for you. - Matching engines software and hardware have advanced light years ahead of where they were 10++ years ago when those slides were generated, while tor has remained static [1]. The Tor Project and its people knew of the traffic a

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 16/10/2021 10:12, Stefan Claas wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:24 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: Though there's no such thing as 100% anonymity, security, etc... there are certainly different comparative magnitudes of it available today, and higher ones are probably quite achievable with som

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 16/10/2021 12:00, grarpamp wrote: On 10/16/21, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Except the increased bandwidth cost. And if you have to have padding between each node, or on each link, that becomes very expensive. ... [whatever FUD's/month] Again, no, users have already bought whatever speed they

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread grarpamp
ly big and or otherwise unique transfer. > low latency There's that FUD phrase being used again as if it means something [when] it doesn't. > low added cost There's that FUD phrase being used again as if it means something [when] it doesn't. > a gpa that was and is not

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:24 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > Though there's no such thing as 100% anonymity, security, etc... > > there are certainly different comparative magnitudes of it available > > today, and higher ones are probably quite achievable with some > > work on new alternative mo

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
a base-chaff-flow web system] Tor has vacuumed up, propagandized, sucked the funds from, steered via proceedings, and effectively killed all the competitive research and development in the space for last 20 years. Yep. Totally agree there. An entire class of TA is solely based on matching up

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2021 18:03, coderman wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 15, 2021 12:09 AM, PrivacyArms wrote: To clarify my question: Is there an anonymous network (GPA) for secure/private messaging better than Tor? privacy loves company, so the unpleasant answer to your

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2021 19:24, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: Is that so? Cause if A and B are connected through a 'high speed' fully padded link, they can replace the 'chaff' with their data at will and with very 'low latency'... And no anonymity whatsoever. Peter Fairbrother

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread grarpamp
an application. > You might perhaps do a reasonably low latency anonymous twitter for > instance but not low-latency anonymous browsing. Hardly anyone has developed, released, run, and iterated over any chaffed or other designs than tor for that browsing use case, so that probably cannot yet

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread coderman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 15, 2021 12:09 AM, PrivacyArms wrote: > To clarify my question: Is there an anonymous network (GPA) > for secure/private messaging better than Tor? privacy loves company, so the unpl

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
matter if the adversary uses timing information to correlate the input and output traffic to a network (which he almost inevitably does). You could drop a 1 year store and forward packet buffer delay on every interface in the entire tor cloud and the NSA could still analyze it. Not if it was

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread grarpamp
us. Latency is just a timing measure, whether your traffic events, sessions, and characteristics occur over milliseconds, or days, traffic analysis doesn't give a shit. You could drop a 1 year store and forward packet buffer delay on every interface in the entire tor cloud and the NSA could still

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2021 01:09, PrivacyArms wrote: To clarify my question: Is there an anonymous network (GPA) for secure/private messaging better than Tor? Regarding the other question: What can criminals can do to stay anonymous which is outside the law (hacking/stealing computers/wifi), more

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-13 Thread PrivacyArms
1) Is there a better way for anonymous communication than Tor? 2) Is there a global adversary resistant mixnet? 3) Someone mentioned the fact, that criminals have better ways of hiding than Tor? What methods do you had in mind? ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-11 Thread grarpamp
> Tor uses some kind of limited padding, Tor Project Inc added netflow padding after someone started posting on netflow, general TA, and Sybil problems. Then TPI censored, banned, and booted them out after they kept publicly posting about TA and other insidious and inconvenient problems such

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-11 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 11/10/2021 04:59, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:18:15 + PrivacyArms wrote: Thanks. I will read the linked paper, but Tor uses connection padding. Maybe your information is out of date? Nah. Tor uses some kind of limited padding, It's designed so

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-10 Thread grarpamp
> but if you threat model is nation state, > you've got bigger problems ... :P~ The threat model of the State is Freedom, you've got to deliver that big problem to them.

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-10 Thread coderman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 8, 2021 8:05 AM, Stefan Claas wrote: > the assumed number of malicious nodes is much higher. > Then you do not include the assumed number of honest, but > compromised nodes. *this* is the

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-10 Thread Karl
>> hard to monitor and log it. > > > don't spread misinformation karl. There's no 'probable cause' of > anything > at play here, and the implicit claim that attaking tor is 'hard' is > bullshit. I feel irritated. Is what you are saying true? Would my expression have landed better if I hadn't used that phrase?

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-10 Thread Karl
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 2:03 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > On 10/10/2021 [offlist] wrote: > > If the US is compromised by 100%, Tor would not work at all, right? > > For providing reliable anonymity against the US and UK government > agencies in the form of the NSA and

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-10 Thread grarpamp
ruth because their paychecks depend on keeping the issues buried from their funders and users. Tor Project Inc is full of $hit, they lie, they censor, they're hypocrites, they hide and refuse to answer, they kick out independents, spend more time on wokestering than work product, and more. To

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-09 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 10/10/2021 [offlist] wrote: > If the US is compromised by 100%, Tor would not work at all, right? For providing reliable anonymity against the US and UK government agencies in the form of the NSA and GCHQ, yes, Tor is completely useless. Against a lesser adversary, well there are m

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-09 Thread Peter Fairbrother
c warrants (and a warrant for traffic data for a Tor node would be almost automatically granted anyway).. Also any traffic which *goes through* the US or UK is traffic-compromised. Peter Fairbrother ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 8, 2021 7:35 AM, grarpamp wrote: How

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-09 Thread PrivacyArms
What I want to know is the percentage risk of x malicious nodes to deanonymize a user by controlling the full circuit. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, October 8, 2021 7:35 AM, grarpamp wrote: > > How can I calculate how much impact X honest Tor relays have? > > Is

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-08 Thread Stefan Claas
Hi, IIRC the assumed number of malicious nodes is much higher. Then you do not include the assumed number of honest, but compromised nodes. How much would your equation help Tor users, in different locations, if ISPs would hand over to third parties who is using Tor with port 9050 and 9051, so

Re: Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-08 Thread grarpamp
> How can I calculate how much impact X honest Tor relays have? > Is it better to calculate with bandwidth consumed (250Gbps), despite the > number of relays (~7000)? > > Basically, I want to get the mathematical equation to this statement: > I run X Tor relays at Y Mb/s each

Dishonest Tor relay math question - tor-talk is to lazy

2021-10-07 Thread PrivacyArms
Dear Cypherpunks community, I came across a post on the Whonix forum recently. Since I am also interested in this question I copied it here: https://forums.whonix.org/t/math-behind-honest-tor-nodes/12464 http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/t/math-behind

Re: [tor-talk] Dishonest tor relay attack math question

2021-10-06 Thread grarpamp
On 10/3/21, grarpamp wrote: > On 9/28/21, PrivacyArms via tor-talk wrote: Hello PA https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/ Tor Project staffers didn't reply in over a week to your list post. And via the three day mailman expiry period, Tor Project has again cowardly and

Re: [tor-talk] Dishonest tor relay attack math question

2021-10-03 Thread grarpamp
On 9/28/21, PrivacyArms via tor-talk wrote: > Dear Tor community, > > I came across a post on the Whonix forum recently. Since I am also > interested in this question I copied it here: > https://forums.whonix.org/t/math-behind-honest-tor-nod

Re: Use not TOR

2021-09-29 Thread zeynepaydogan
Someone leaked the internal logs. (2014) Tor hasn’t felt the need to make any statements about the leaked data. when i asked, the community team lead (Tor) wrote to meHe said: I'm curious about "the daily log was leaked". What does this exactly mean? He learned that informatio

Re: Use not TOR

2021-09-29 Thread zeynepaydogan
Someone leaked the internal logs. (2014) Tor hasn’t felt the need to make any statements about the leaked data. when i asked, the community team lead (Tor) wrote to me He said: I'm curious about "the daily log was leaked". What does this exactly mean? He learned that informatio

Re: Use not TOR

2021-09-28 Thread grarpamp
ion that anything they say regarding logs is true. There is also no penalty, if operators are not well known big public persons the VPN's just shutdown, rebrand, reboot. Assuming that everything is logged forever is the better starting point. > The Tor project can’t help anonymously. Softwar

Use not TOR

2021-09-28 Thread zeynepaydogan
Use a no-logs VPN. The Tor project can’t help anonymously.Don’t respect a community where people who say they're incompetent behind each other's backs. in 2014, the daily log was leaked. Tor hasn't made a statement about it. And some of them work in highest ranked position

Re: Tor Stinks: TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates

2021-09-02 Thread grarpamp
ugh a snake. NYM seems more generic dev-platformish, MAID-SAFE seems more storage-ish, neither seem to offer an alternative to tor for users to browse the clearnet automagically, ie would require clunky nature of adding edge services similar to false.i2p, perhaps even requiring special new brow

The SAFE network works similarly to the TOR network

2021-09-01 Thread professor rat
MaidSafeCoin (MAID) was launched in February 2006. It is a project that aims to decentralize the Internet. According to the developers, its concept predates Bitcoin (BTC) by several years. The SAFE network works similarly to the TOR network, meaning that all online content is distributed and

Re: Tor Stinks: TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates

2021-09-01 Thread Steven Schear
llywood. > > Stupid pirate scene hasn't evolved much since > days of FTP... some crews are still using it, lol. > They advanced to decrypt Blu-Ray and DVD, screencap, > etc... but still hardly taking distribution seriously. > > [delete] > > >Unfortunately, Tor P

Re: Tor Stinks: TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates

2021-09-01 Thread jim bell
tion seriously. [delete] >Unfortunately, Tor Project is fixated on disallowing its users any freedom to make their own tradeoff choices as to how to use and deploy its [formerly] flexible overlay software as such... with that Tor Project is destroying users ability to share freely as they see fit.

Tor Stinks: TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates

2021-08-31 Thread grarpamp
eneral... news, books, code, video conversations, etc... need to do is use tor+onioncat+bittorrent and the entire planet full of all those needing to distribute all sorts of data securely anonymously (to a certain level of tradeoff, as is everything in security) will benefit from the anonymo

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2021-08-26 Thread grarpamp
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xpanse/cortex-xpanse-user-guide/cortex-xpanse-expander/data/netflow-data.html https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercenary-spyware-vendor-comes-into-focus/

Tor FUD stinks

2021-08-13 Thread professor rat
Those making allegations without evidence against Tor here resemble nothing so much as that infamous Nazi-fag-moron, Batshit-crazy ( The Govt-Agent-Truther! ) Why it makes sense to group them together - and get rid of them together.  200 USD each to kill Gramps, Batshit and Semich.  " Fo

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2021-08-13 Thread grarpamp
Speaking of all that... The fact that "Tor Stinks -- NSA"... the need to start fresh investigation, code, develop, and deploy additional new alternative proof-of-concept networks, besides the old 25 year legacy and vacuum that is Tor Project, utilizing full-time base of chaff fill, and

Re: Tor

2021-06-03 Thread Karl Semich
You describe hungry wolves. Predators watch their entire ecosystem, making paths where they need to, to manage their prey. Those paths shift when where they are, is no longer a good idea. A rural hunter on a game trail, displaces the wolves. New paths form. Some include chickens. A blockchain

Re: Tor

2021-06-02 Thread grarpamp
's also just what > happens. > > Tor's ability to leave functionality gaps hinges on its users being unable > to take advantage of them easily themselves. Further helped by Tor's not equally presenting known risks, censoring, ultimately leaving users ignorant and unto wolves.

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread Karl
On Sun, May 30, 2021, 4:50 PM Karl wrote: > > > On Sun, May 30, 2021, 4:38 PM wrote: > >> On 2021-05-31 04:38, Karl wrote: >> > One group I know lost access to their website multiple times, the old >> > website stayed up and google directed people to it, they had to >> register a >> > new domain

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread Karl
On Sun, May 30, 2021, 4:38 PM wrote: > On 2021-05-31 04:38, Karl wrote: > > One group I know lost access to their website multiple times, the old > > website stayed up and google directed people to it, they had to register > a > > new domain name ... > > Could you give me the group and the domain

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread jamesd
On 2021-05-31 04:38, Karl wrote: > One group I know lost access to their website multiple times, the old > website stayed up and google directed people to it, they had to register a > new domain name ... Could you give me the group and the domain names? git's gpg commits can in principle deal wit

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread Karl
Juan, do you know anything about the fake-looking websites that replace the normal websites of controversial projects once they get well-known? One group I know lost access to their website multiple times, the old website stayed up and google directed people to it, they had to register a new domai

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread Karl
My memory is not completely the same as yours, but it does seem important to be willing to take and improve on things made by people we do not trust. I lose some technical advantage by using mostly free-licensed software; it reduces my options in emergencies. Still, it's certainly very important

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread juan
On Sun, 30 May 2021 12:53:10 -0400 Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whenever you make a big project that threatens the major stuff, people come > in and mess it up, tor was created and is fully controlled by the US military. Do not spread misinformation about it. Nob

Re: Tor

2021-05-30 Thread Karl Semich
Whenever you make a big project that threatens the major stuff, people come in and mess it up, put others in powerful roles, send misleading communications, adjust websites and dialogues to change public impact, spend lots of money ... It's great to change that, but it's also just what happens. To

Re: Tor

2021-05-29 Thread grarpamp
I posted back then that even simple netflow analysis by cooperated ISP's, tier-1's, etc could be used to match and discover endpoints. Then Tor/MPerry rolled out this padding. It has some level of benefit against some netflow analysis under certain use cases. As with other "Tor

Re: [ot] [personal] internet and tor

2021-05-28 Thread Karl
I received a message from the list! Also I posted yet another wrong thing to the list I think? Meanwhile, orbot stopped working for me. I wasn't get connections through it. So I turned it off, and back on, didn't help. I turned it off and tried running tor from termux, but it said

Re: Tor

2021-05-28 Thread Karl
Well, I was confused when I posted that, but there's actually a whole padding infrastructure set up that appears configurable somewhat. https://github.com/torproject/torspec/blob/main/padding-spec.txt With some review a proposal could theoretically be made to make things constant-bandwidth for th

Re: Tor

2021-05-28 Thread juan
On Fri, 28 May 2021 10:10:29 -0400 Karl wrote: > I'm looking at orbot and seeing it has "circuit padding" now. I don't know > whether this meets the requirements of chaff, and would like to know. according to their docs that padding is supposedly a defense against 'netflow' based anal

Re: Tor

2021-05-28 Thread Karl
Looks like circuit padding's been around for 2 years now. Guess I'd better plan to learn its limits eventually. [thread:schizo]

Tor

2021-05-28 Thread Karl
to fix the situation. Repeat until actually fixed, shift environments if needed. If I can get message delivery working for this list again, I can stick around to stay on issues like the forthrightness of Tor for defending journalists and activists. It would be helpful to know what is actually nee

Re: [ot] [personal] internet and tor

2021-05-27 Thread Karl
And I should mention whenever I post something: I'm still not receiving messages from this list. It appears that gmail is bouncing their delivery; Greg might be able to look into what the bounce message is at some point, not sure.

[ot] [personal] internet and tor

2021-05-27 Thread Karl
ork distribution similar to my mysterious speed cap Additionally, - leaving tor running locally for extended time has sometimes been a way to make sure a system has an issue, for me Instead, I've installed orbot on my phone, and I use adb's tcp forwarding to use the phone as a tor client. Thi

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2021-05-16 Thread grarpamp
HF posted: > https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/categories/19-Tor > https://twitter.com/hackerfactor/status/1341164309095694336 > "my years of previous interactions with the Tor Project had > been met with everything from silence to outright hostility. ... > With n

The Hacker News: Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Are Spying On Users' Dark Web Activities

2021-05-10 Thread jim bell
The Hacker News: Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Are Spying On Users' Dark Web Activities. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/keMzbRcpGLs/over-25-of-tor-exit-relays-are-spying.html

Re: [tor-talk] Looking for information about onion site user deanonymization

2021-05-07 Thread Karl Semich
In the past an organisation would alter the website to compromise the systems of its users, secretly installing malicious code on them to track them. https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/11/30/exploited-de-anonymize-tor-browser-users/ This involves retaining a set of dangerous and publicly

Fwd: [tor-talk] Looking for information about onion site user deanonymization

2021-05-03 Thread grarpamp
-- Forwarded message -- From: Seth David Schoen Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 23:20:05 -0700 Subject: [tor-talk] Looking for information about onion site user deanonymization To: tor-t...@lists.torproject.org Hi tor-talk, I'm working as a consultant to a criminal defense lawyer

Re: [tor-relays] ISP

2021-04-05 Thread grarpamp
> Which ISP is better? They all suck. Go start your own ISPs and meshnets that actually gives a shit about people, privacy, transparency, censorship, servers, speech, freedom, crypto, and actually fights back against government largesse, intrusion, regulation, power, etc. Demand is high, you will

Re: Tor Stinks: Massive RMS Cancel Culture Meltdown, More Censorship by Tor Project

2021-03-29 Thread grarpamp
> See all the fun threads here before they delete them... > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-March/thread.html The Freedom Infection spread to tor-onions, and quickly got amputated by another censor... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-onions/2

Tor Stinks: Massive RMS Cancel Culture Meltdown, More Censorship by Tor Project

2021-03-28 Thread grarpamp
Meanwhile, as Tor Project Incorporated and its Holier Than Thou [anon] "moderators" more properly known as Censors continue to refuse to let [certain] people post some topical centric to their list charters, even when same topics were approved before in history... Tor Project has

[tor] Questing regarding Team Cymru Tor Relays and Bridges

2021-03-22 Thread grarpamp
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lisa Winter Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Questing regarding Team Cymru Tor Relays and Bridges Georg Koppen: Weird - I got the following reply a few hours after submitting the mail: >Your message has been rejected, proba

Fwd: [tor] I was banned from PayPal

2021-03-13 Thread grarpamp
, --e-cigarettes or > prescription drugs/devices. > > I have a zoom meeting with two attorneys from EFF.org on March 18. Stay > tuned....and maybe ban PayPal. > > --potlatch > >> Am 3/11/21 um 12:42 AM schrieb potlatch: >> >>> Today I received a message from P

Tor HSDIR outage (resolved?)

2021-01-15 Thread coderman
via reddit: """ You will currently not be able to access any v3 onion addresses, what is happening is unknown, but it is potentially a huge attack on the entire network. Earlier today I made a post outlining consequences I would be putting into place to deter markets from funding DoS attacks ag

Yasha Levine’s “investigation” against Tor

2020-12-09 Thread professor rat
https://micahflee.com/2014/12/fact-checking-pandos-smears-against-tor/ Pando people (Yasha Levine, Paul Carr, and Mark Ames) and their #TorGate followers haven’t presented a shred of technical evidence against Tor’s safety Who smelled it dealt it? Peter " Palantir " Thiel is a Pando investor!

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2020-11-28 Thread grarpamp
> Four Seasons Total Interior Design > https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1332442077309833217 Matt Blaze, who is Chair of board of directors of Tor Project Inc, and supposedly a respected security analyst, appears to spend more time twatting about stupid microphones, than removing the ne

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2020-11-02 Thread grarpamp
Another 600++ were removed in September. Estimate 25-50% of all nodes are adversarial. And the network is not very TA resistant. With darknet markets constantly getting shut. Tor Project still advertising false protection and not putting up giant warning banners.

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2020-11-01 Thread grarpamp
> more than After people made suggestions years ago, Tor is only now finally getting around to finding 300 bad relays... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-October/019045.html protip: There are hundreds more than that...

Re: Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis

2020-10-28 Thread grarpamp
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/897-Tor-0day-Crashing-the-Tor-Network.html > circuit padding > client-edge padding capability already built Neither may have much impact on a global TA adversary. Draw it on paper and start thinking like a TA, if not obvious, then dro

Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon

2020-10-14 Thread Karl
(the total number of users is higher, but >> at any time 1 million users are using the service) that is 150 million >> bytes per month per user divided by 2,592,000 seconds per month, which >> is 58 bytes per second per user or 463.32 baud. >> >> >> >> Looked

Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon

2020-10-14 Thread Karl
conds per month, which > is 58 bytes per second per user or 463.32 baud. > > > > Looked at another way, if people always used an anonymity service the > hops would multiply their traffic by say 5 times (3 times as in TOR is > not enough). Covertraffic and file size I'm curiou

Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon

2020-10-14 Thread Peter Fairbrother
per user divided by 2,592,000 seconds per month, which is 58 bytes per second per user or 463.32 baud. Looked at another way, if people always used an anonymity service the hops would multiply their traffic by say 5 times (3 times as in TOR is not enough). Covertraffic and file size padding tr

Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon

2020-10-14 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 15/10/2020 00:30, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 23:33:35 +0100 Peter Fairbrother wrote: You're bragging about being part of the 'team' of US military scum responsible for the tor scam. You being an english cunt means you were the GCHQ 'representa

Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon

2020-10-14 Thread Karl
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 6:34 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: >> >>> On 14/10/2020 18:22, jim bell wrote: >>> >>> >>> To put some BOTE numbers on that, suppose you want to provide for 1 >>> million concurrent users. You have about 150 TB per month user traffic >>> to play with (500 x 1TB, ~3 hops), 1

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