The Register article about making online anonymity illegal in Australia

2009-09-09 Thread basile
This was an interesting article, I thought I'd share in case you haven't seen it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/anonymous_backfire/ -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 USA (716) 829-8197 signature.asc Description: Open

Re: The Register article about making online anonymity illegal in Australia

2009-09-09 Thread grarpamp
> This was an interesting article, I thought I'd share in case you haven't > seen it. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/anonymous_backfire/ I figure it's an arms race between those seeking control and those valuing freedom. The sooner strong dark [or maybe even bright] nets can reach 'im

Re: The Register article about making online anonymity illegal in Australia

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, grarpamp wrote: > I figure it's an arms race between those seeking control > and those > valuing freedom. The sooner strong dark [or maybe even > bright] nets > can reach 'impossible to take down' status... whether by > outright > technical strength, or by stalemate with free

Re: The Register article about making online anonymity illegal in Australia

2009-09-09 Thread Jon McLachlan
I figure it's an arms race between those seeking control and those valuing freedom. I disagree. I'd say that "valuing control" and "seeking freedom" more accurately describe the actual state of affairs.

Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/ Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node By calumog I became interested in Tor in the spring of 2007 after reading about the situation in Burma and felt that I would like to do somethin

Re: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Nicky van Etten
And these treats are rapidly growing throughout western countries, i also stopped running an exit node now, guess being relay is all there is left to do now. I started supporting FreeNet now since it is only an internal network there wont be external traffic thats logged or considered illegal anywh

Re: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Ted Smith
There's a lot of FUD thrown around about how "you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node", but I've ever only seen this one account. Are there any other accounts, or better yet, any actual numbers as to what percentage of tor node operators face significant legal harassment (not misplaced D

Re: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/ Perhaps this should be reason enough TO run a tor node? Not for Burma/Iran... but for those of us in the "first world" who are threatened by police state

Re: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

2009-09-09 Thread Wesley Kenzie
> > --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Perhaps this should be reason enough TO run a tor node? Not for > Burma/Iran... but for those of us in the "first world" who are threatened by > police states ourselves? It sometimes takes an unfortunate rude awakening > to realize this, but unfortu

I cannot create an aol account through tor an privoxy

2009-09-09 Thread James Brown
I use Tor v0.2.1.19 and Privoxy version 3.0.9 on my Debian Lenny AMD64 system. I tried to create such account but I have had the next error: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request /POST /freeaolweb/subfl