Re: First results of analysis

2006-10-05 Thread Claude LaFrenière
Hi *coderman* : > some kind of automated testing for rogue exits would be useful though. May be but read this thread first to have a the complete story: From: "Alexander W. Janssen" Newsgroups: gmane.network.tor.user Subject: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: First results of analysis

2006-10-05 Thread coderman
On 10/5/06, Alexander W. Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... i checked 1161 nodes in total. 269 of them where responsive exit-nodes, all behaving correctly. or just behaving when you were looking? ;) 9 exitnodes where responsive, but their had some proxy installed which didn't behave qu

Re: Setting up a Tor private network

2006-10-05 Thread George Shaffer
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:38, Jim Spring wrote: > I'm in the process of playing around with Tor (beyond just using it > as a client -- using it as a client has been no problem). In so > doing, I am attempting to first set up a "tor private network" on a > system and see how things work when r

Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-05 Thread George Shaffer
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 02:07, jon smith wrote: > I still don't get it. Tor is for anonymity. DNS leaks > compromise anonymity (apparently anyone with 2 brain > cells on nodding terms can figure out where you're > going). The Tor documentation implies, however, the > setting ftp to fail (port 8118) s

First results of analysis

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi all, i checked 1161 nodes in total. 269 of them where responsive exit-nodes, all behaving correctly. 9 exitnodes where responsive, but their had some proxy installed which didn't behave quite correct when you accessed a webpage with the notation original.url.$nodename.exit; the error-messages

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi Claude! On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:29:22AM -0400, Claude LaFrenière wrote: > Got it ! Aha? I'm still scanning with no result so far, although i found a couple of exitnodes which have misconfigured local proxies... [...snip...] OK, well, i checked that whistlersmother as well and got this pic

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Claude LaFrenière
Hi *Alexander W. Janssen* : Got it ! I was going to this web site: http://www.iamaphex.net (This is the web site for Torcap, a program to socksify application in Windows O.S.) with the exit node exit node: whistlermother Info: http://node2.xenobite.eu/torstat.php 1195whistlersmother

Re: New User Questions

2006-10-05 Thread Claude LaFrenière
Hi *David O Smith* : > I've just started using Tor on my MacTel system, running OS 10.4.8 > > I saw somewhere instructions for using Camino with Tor, but I can't find > them now. Anyone help me? Some hints here (founded with Google...): http://info-ninja.net/blog/2006/05/05/using-tor-with-ca

0.1.1.24 release announcement?

2006-10-05 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
On Oct 3, 2006, at 20:33:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you on OSX x86 or PPC? The 0.1.1.24 packages for OSX are fat binaries. I apologize if I missed the message due to filtering on my end, but was 0.1.1.24 ever announced? I see it's on the download page, and there have

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:31:47PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Also, the logo "linux-magazine.com what you need, when you > need it" is a image or just text? Exactly the same page is at http://www.wdr.tv/. The content of that page is (gathered with tcpdump): http://searchportal.information.com/?a_id

New User Questions

2006-10-05 Thread David O Smith
I've just started using Tor on my MacTel system, running OS 10.4.8 I saw somewhere instructions for using Camino with Tor, but I can't find them now. Anyone help me? Also does anyone know how to make the following work with Tor: Mailsmith iChat Mt-Newswatcher Mudwalker TIA, Dave -- Dave Smith

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Deephay
On 10/5/06, Claude LaFrenière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi *Alexander W. Janssen* : > Hi all, > > considering that I heard from several people that they notice strange > sideeffects since a couple of days - altered webpage, advertisement where no > ads should be - I started a little investig

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Claude LaFrenière
Hi *glymr* : > I am not adding anything useful, but I wish to add my feeling about this > situation that people are so rapidly responding to a threat so early. > > :) tor will never die if people like you all are on it. (which reminds > me i've blathered about writing a dns proxy patch for to

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Claude LaFrenière
Hi *Alexander W. Janssen* : > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:45:03PM -0400, Claude LaFrenière wrote: >> Hmmm... Bogus exit nodes or bogus DNS servers ? > > One or the other way, brute forcing my way through all exit-nodes should > reveil it. Hopefully... This is a lot a job. May be a very long i

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread BlueStar88
Currently i'm improving my torstat page to mark nodes with bad http-behavior, using automatic http-throughput comparison of every http-servicing exit-node against a reference exit-node. Then it's up to the users to add a ExcludeNodes statement in torrc using this information. Greets Alexand

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:45:03PM -0400, Claude LaFrenière wrote: > Hmmm... Bogus exit nodes or bogus DNS servers ? One or the other way, brute forcing my way through all exit-nodes should reveil it. Hopefully... > Is it possible that the strange side effects comes, not from the exit nodes > th

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-05 Thread glymr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I am not adding anything useful, but I wish to add my feeling about this situation that people are so rapidly responding to a threat so early. :) tor will never die if people like you all are on it. (which reminds me i've blathered about writing