Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread jeffery statin
--- Michael_google gmail_Gersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally use vidalia's "new identity" a lot, a > lot more than I clear cookies. The way I see it there are two reasons to use NewNym: 1) To change ones's pseudonym identity (IP address of exit node) to a new pseudonym identity.

Re: Tor 0.1.2.17 causing high latency after 5 - 6 hours

2007-10-03 Thread phobos
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:07:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 20K bytes in 387 lines about: : They have all the same configuration, and are bandwith limited with the : custom setting to about 75% of the connection. What do you mean by laggy? And, is there anything interesting in the tor log

Re: Tor/Vidalia hangs

2007-10-03 Thread phobos
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:19:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.7K bytes in 20 lines about: Is there anything interesting in the tor log file? -- Andrew

Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
> So what does this mean to you with respect to cookie clearing? Should > a newnym signal always clear cookies? Should it sometimes clear > cookies? Should its behavior be tied to an existing torbutton cookie > preference? "Newnym" is a tor-level action to change streams. "Clear cookies" is a torb

Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread jeffery statin
--- Mike Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you notice issues or have usability complaints, > now is the time to speak up while things are still > easy to change. Please be specific. One last feature request ;-). I use RefControl to spoof the referrer by using the current site's root as t

Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread jeffery statin
--- Mike Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what does this mean to you with respect to cookie > clearing? Should a newnym signal always clear > cookies? Yes, as that is required to achive a truly new identity via. NewNym (along with clearing cache, etc). Maybe put a warning up when TorButto

Tor/Vidalia hangs

2007-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running vidalia0014 and tor0207a. The last 5-7 times I started my server, both Vidalia and tor hangs. Vidalia either starts responding or crashes when I shut down the tor.exe process manually. Tor starts working again if I start up Vidalia and start tor from the menu. Perhaps this is a known

Re: Advanced traffic shaping with iptables?

2007-10-03 Thread Marco Bonetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 warning removed: http://sidbox.homelinux.org/~sid77/tor.html feel free to use it and/or incorporate any changes back into your script :) ciao - -- Marco Bonetti Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://www.slackintosh.org Linux-live for powerpc: h

Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Michael_google gmail_Gersten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think that's the real issue I have with cookies. The idea that a > cookie can be "permanent" without my approval. I have no problem with > login cookies. I have every problem with third party cookies being > accepted at all (the only

Re: Torbutton 1.1.8-alpha (Usability improvements)

2007-10-03 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
> Usability complications also arise though. If the user says they want > to keep their Tor cookies in a jar (or left alone entirely), should > new nym still clear them? I think so, esp since cookies can be > injected and stolen by exit nodes (even many https ones). But other > people may disagree.

Re: Advanced traffic shaping with iptables?

2007-10-03 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Wed, October 3, 2007 10:29, Mike Perry wrote: > Actually, my iptables manpage only says that pid, sid and command > matching are broken on SMP. Perhaps UID is actually safe? yup you're right, also http://linux.die.net/man/8/iptables said so. I probably misread ubuntu page :) I'll remove the war

Re: Advanced traffic shaping with iptables?

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Marco Bonetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, September 26, 2007 02:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It looks like the script needs Tor to run on a virtual address. > > This could be done by adding another address to your default interface > Yesterday night (CEST) I've modified the scrip