Re: Searching for "good" ISPs

2010-02-19 Thread wuiv yccwg
On 20 February 2010 01:43, Ted Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, coderman wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, wuiv yccwg wrote: >> > ... >> >  Basically, I am after some feedback and maybe a wish list or >> > suggestions. What Tor community would like to see in such kind of

Re: launch external application warning

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/16/2010 02:00 AM, Luis Herrera wrote: >> This is a UI problem with either otr or pidgin. Naturally you think >> clikcing "Authenticate" means you want to authenticate the user. What >> it really means is that pidgin tries to load your default browser to go >> to the otr website to explain w

Re: Searching for "good" ISPs

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 17:32 -0800, coderman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, wuiv yccwg wrote: > > ... > > Basically, I am after some feedback and maybe a wish list or > > suggestions. What Tor community would like to see in such kind of > > service provider? > > Tor is a decentralized

Re: why polipo?

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/15/2010 12:09 PM, Michael Gomboc wrote: > Why is polipo used and no longer privoxy? The first question is, "why a http proxy at all?" The answer is, because Firefox SOCKS layer has hard-coded timeouts, and other issues, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280661. Personally, I don'

Re: Searching for "good" ISPs

2010-02-19 Thread coderman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, wuiv yccwg wrote: > ... >  Basically, I am after some feedback and maybe a wish list or > suggestions. What Tor community would like to see in such kind of > service provider? Tor is a decentralized architecture. why use Tor in your centralized (even if distribute

Re: Tor on the Nokia N900 (Mobile Tor stuff)

2010-02-19 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
aseband firmware. Harald Welte is currently working on on solving this problem for the Calypso chipset: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2010/02/19/#20100219-announcing_osmocom_bb The future looks nice all around. Having Tor on as many of these devices will provide many people with opti

Re: Searching for "good" ISPs

2010-02-19 Thread wuiv yccwg
Hi All, Sorry for this shameless plug, but it seems to be very relevant to the topic. As someone said before this is Capitalism and if there is demand there will be supply. I am actually working for a startup company Coldbot (UK), https://coldbot.com/ and we are running a beta test of hosted T

Re: Tor on the Nokia N900 (Mobile Tor stuff)

2010-02-19 Thread Rich Jones
Perhaps, that is a good reason FOR Tor to be on Android. I'm a huge android fan (currently making my living off of Android development, in fact) - and the reason that it is so interesting to me is because it covers all of the major US carriers, numerous international carriers, and it's available o

Re: Tor on the Nokia N900 (Mobile Tor stuff)

2010-02-19 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 02/18/10 20:07, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > The performance of Tor is similar to any other Tor client - this is our > reference C implementation running on the N900. > > With that said - You may want to hold out and get an Android phone. > We're looking to do a release of Tor on Android next week.

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-19 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 2/19/10 5:00 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 02/19/2010 05:20 AM, onion.s...@nym.hush.com wrote: >> http://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-users-graphs.html#china >> >> if there is no clear explanation account for the doubling of the >> usage figure in the whole December, i would speculate that thi

Re: Tor on the Nokia N900 (Mobile Tor stuff)

2010-02-19 Thread Ian
Hi > I'm happy to announce that we've gotten Tor working as a client on the > Nokia N900 GSM telephone. We've written up a blog post and some > instructions. We'd love to get some feedback: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nokia-n900-maemo-gsm-telephone that is *very* good news..well done Ia

[Solved] Problem with Tor 0.2.1.23....not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable

2010-02-19 Thread Bernd Schmelter
Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:13:30PM +, Soviet Union wrote: [...] > > Did the new subversion tor-geoipdb_0.2.1.23-2~~lenny+1_all.deb be maked > > as imrpovement of that bug? > > Yes, the new deb should take care of it for now. Yes, now it works. There is also a new log

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/19/2010 05:20 AM, onion.s...@nym.hush.com wrote: > http://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-users-graphs.html#china > > if there is no clear explanation account for the doubling of the > usage figure in the whole December, i would speculate that this is > an error in the estimation. could anyo

Re: What version FF for Mac 10.5.2 ppc

2010-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 02/19/2010 06:41 AM, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote: > I just downloaded the new Vidalia/Tor bundle for Mac 10.5.2 ppc. > This version of Tor is 0.2.1.23-0.2.7 > > I am using Firefox 3.0.17. Is this a good safe Firefox for this version of > Tor? 3.0.18 was just released, otherwise, sure so

Re: [Kraut] inquiries from law enforcement authorities

2010-02-19 Thread Olaf Selke
Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:22:09PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: > >> It really has become an advantage providing my "own" pi address space. > > You don't have your own ASN, though? no overengineering ;-) Olaf *

What version FF for Mac 10.5.2 ppc

2010-02-19 Thread zzzjethro666
I just downloaded the new Vidalia/Tor bundle for Mac 10.5.2 ppc. This version of Tor is 0.2.1.23-0.2.7 I am using Firefox 3.0.17. Is this a good safe Firefox for this version of Tor? thanX

Re: [Kraut] inquiries from law enforcement authorities

2010-02-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:22:09PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: > It really has become an advantage providing my "own" pi address space. You don't have your own ASN, though? > Thus according to ripe registry database police assumes me being the isp > and asking me about customer data. Otherwise with

Re: Tor in China

2010-02-19 Thread onion . soup
http://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-users-graphs.html#china if there is no clear explanation account for the doubling of the usage figure in the whole December, i would speculate that this is an error in the estimation. could anyone confirm this? On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:26:22 +0800 onion.s...@

[OT] more censorship, government-issued spyware coming to France

2010-02-19 Thread Scott Bennett
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,678508,00.html Perhaps more people in Europe will have to relearn the hard way why the right of the people to keep and bear arms must be held inviolate. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***