Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-11 Thread Greg Norcie
IMHO, it seems like a needless duplication of effort. Tor alone is pretty good at circumvention. It has a couple flaws - it's slower than a simple VPN, and obtaining bridges can be a bit of a challenge if you're in a regime that's actively blocking access. But the Pirate Browser doesn't seem

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-11 Thread Ben Laurie
On 11 August 2013 03:39, Griffin Boyce wrote: > On 08/11/2013 12:51 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: >> Some other random stats for the curious. >> >> Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65) >> Vidalia 0.2.21 (QT 4.8.1) >> >> # Configured for speed >> ExcludeSingleHopRelays 0 >> EnforceDistinctSubnets 0 >> Allo

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-11 Thread Griffin Boyce
On 08/11/2013 12:51 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: > Some other random stats for the curious. > > Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65) > Vidalia 0.2.21 (QT 4.8.1) > > # Configured for speed > ExcludeSingleHopRelays 0 > EnforceDistinctSubnets 0 > AllowSingleHopCircuits 1 > > # Exclude countries that might ha

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Ritter
For those interested, I'll point to the tor-talk thread: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-August/thread.html#29331 This does seem very focused on bypassing censorship - not providing anonymity. The tiny FAQ at the bottom: "While it uses Tor network, which is designed for anony

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Travis McCrea
I know that Pirate Linux started as a Pirate Party of Canada project, however, I am unsure if it is still being maintained. Though anyone who would like to help us out we would obviously be greatly appreciative of it. On 2013-08-10, at 6:02 PM, lilo wrote: > On 10/08/2013 23:32, Mikael "MMN-o

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread lilo
On 10/08/2013 23:32, Mikael "MMN-o" Nordfeldth wrote: > On 2013-08-10 19:50, Al Billings wrote: >> In a WTF moment for me personally, a preconfigured Firefox 23 with >> Tor has come out from the Piratebay. > >> http://piratebrowser.com/ > > I haven't quite followed the latest Mozilla security ann

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Al Billings
Those were patched in the release *before* the last. In other words, no one running a current browser, whether TBB or standard Firefox, was vulnerable at the time of the attack. Only out of date users were. -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Mika

Re: [liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Mikael "MMN-o" Nordfeldth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-08-10 19:50, Al Billings wrote: > In a WTF moment for me personally, a preconfigured Firefox 23 with > Tor has come out from the Piratebay. > > http://piratebrowser.com/ I haven't quite followed the latest Mozilla security announcements (just

[liberationtech] Piratebrowser?

2013-08-10 Thread Al Billings
In a WTF moment for me personally, a preconfigured Firefox 23 with Tor has come out from the Piratebay. http://piratebrowser.com/ -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you