Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread krishna e bera
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46:12AM -0500, Erilenz wrote: > This is one of those ideal/practical arguments. Idealistically, Tor > would only have 3 hop circuits and those who want "simple circumvention" > wouldn't use it. That doesn't make it the practical truth of what is > happening though. Even

Re: HTML5 deanonymization attacks

2009-11-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Marco Bonetti wrote: > DeepSec 2009 is on, this morning I gave the talk on new HTML5 features > and how do they affect Tor browsing, if you're interested in the > presentation with some sample code for the attacks go to > http://sid77.slackware.it/. > And keep bro

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Flamsmark
> > My question is: do you really think it would help? If people are using > Tor inappropriately (meaning they could get what they want with a > simple anonymous proxy), what are the chances they're going to have it > configured appropriately to reduce the bandwidth they use? > I don't want to wei

Re: HTML5 deanonymization attacks

2009-11-19 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Marco Bonetti (marco.bone...@slackware.it): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello list, > DeepSec 2009 is on, this morning I gave the talk on new HTML5 features > and how do they affect Tor browsing, if you're interested in the > presentation with some sample code

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Erilenz wrote: > * on the Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: > >>> That's fine, as long as you're assuming that people only use Tor when they >>> need >>> strong anonymity. As soon as you realise that people who don't need strong >>> anon

HTML5 deanonymization attacks

2009-11-19 Thread Marco Bonetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, DeepSec 2009 is on, this morning I gave the talk on new HTML5 features and how do they affect Tor browsing, if you're interested in the presentation with some sample code for the attacks go to http://sid77.slackware.it/. And keep browsing w

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Erilenz
* on the Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: >> That's fine, as long as you're assuming that people only use Tor when they >> need >> strong anonymity. As soon as you realise that people who don't need strong >> anonymity are using it as well, your point fails. Whether or

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 11/19/2009 04:47 AM, Erilenz wrote: > That's fine, as long as you're assuming that people only use Tor when they > need > strong anonymity. As soon as you realise that people who don't need strong > anonymity are using it as well, your point fails. Whether or not they *should* > be doing so is

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Jim
Tim Wilde wrote: On 11/18/2009 4:17 AM, Jim wrote: Google was actually the motivating factor in causing me to get serious about overcoming whatever problem I had when I first tried to use Tor. Although my concern at the time was more the ubiquity of google-analytics. But still concerned about

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Erilenz
* on the Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:08:10PM -0500, Marcus Griep wrote: >> Yes, they should. However, just because people shouldn't be doing something >> doesn't mean you should ignore the fact that they are. > > Responding to a deficiency in an area which Tor does not attempt to solve is > a poor us

Re: private exit node

2009-11-19 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM, moris blues wrote: > So is it posssible to use my own exit node, in that case that nobody else > then me can use it? > Or that everybody can use it, but only a few Pages will be allowed to send > from it? > For example when i want to use the exitnode only for my