Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Matthew
Hi, I think my question was so basic that I explained it badly. I had seen the page Justin suggested previously but it did not answer my simple question. Let me try again. When you are go into for example Yahoo webmail (without Tor) and download an attachment (say a Word document or a phot

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Matthew
Hi, I think my question was so basic that I explained it badly. I had seen the page Justin suggested previously but it did not answer my simple question. Let me try again. When you are go into for example Yahoo webmail (without Tor) and download an attachment (say a Word document or a photo) t

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread andrew
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:22:50AM +0100, pump...@cotse.net wrote 2.9K bytes in 70 lines about: > I assume the attachment downloads from Yahoo Mail (or whatever) through > the three Tor nodes before being unencrypted at the final node and then > is downloaded to my computer. In other words:

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Matthew (pump...@cotse.net): > When you are go into for example Yahoo webmail (without Tor) and > download an attachment (say a Word document or a photo) then your > browser asks you where on your hard drive you wish to save that > attachment. > > Then do the same thing using Tor (

Tor-ramdisk 20100618 released

2010-06-19 Thread Anthony G. Basile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686, x86_64 or MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Aplin, Justin M
Yes, if you use Torbutton, the attachment itself will be downloaded only via Tor. I believe this is the short answer to your question, though everything else Mike said is good to keep in mind as well, especially in situations where paranoia is appropriate. This is especially dangerous

Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread emigrant
when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in languages i cannot read. is there any way to keep it always to english? thank you very much. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with uns

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, emigrant wrote: > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > languages i cannot read. > is there any way to keep it always to english? Well, you could always go to google.co.uk. -- Runa A. Sandvik *

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Gitano
On 2010-06-19 16:22, emigrant wrote: > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > languages i cannot read. > is there any way to keep it always to english? I prefer: https://ssl.scroogle.org/ *** To unsubs

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Matthew
Thank you all for this advice - I'm pleased that my question was not so basic. I was not using Torbutton. However, I had previously used www.decloak.net and it could not get my real IP. I tried www.decloak.net again and I am still anonymous. The reasons are (even in the absence of Torbutto

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 6/19/2010 10:22 AM, emigrant wrote: when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in languages i cannot read. is there any way to keep it always to english? There are many ways to do this listed in the FAQ. Please see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnio

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 07:52:56PM +0530, emigrant wrote: > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > languages i cannot read. > is there any way to keep it always to english? > > thank you very much. Make http://google.com/ncr your home page. -- Eugen* Leitl http://lei

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread st...@hispeed.ch
Le Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:24:39 +0200, "Runa A. Sandvik" a écrit : > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM, emigrant > wrote: > > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > > languages i cannot read. > > is there any way to keep it always to english? > > Well, you could always go

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread emigrant
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 10:59 -0400, Aplin, Justin M wrote: > On 6/19/2010 10:22 AM, emigrant wrote: > > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > > languages i cannot read. > > is there any way to keep it always to english? > > > > There are many ways to do this listed

Tor Extension possible for Safari, others ?

2010-06-19 Thread Dreamcat4
Hi, With the recently released of Safari 5, its now possible to write extensions in HTML / CSS. It would be nice to know whether the browser API exposed by Apple is capable of allowing / exposing the Browser requests to a Socks Proxy (for Tor). Ie like FoxyProxy, TorButton etc does for Firefox. Si

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Matthew
You could set "StrictExitNodes 1" in your .torrc file with a series of exit servers that are based in countries where English is the first language (USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, etc). That way all results will be in English. emigrant wrote: when i give a keyword to search, in most c

Rogue exit nodes - checking?

2010-06-19 Thread Matthew
This is especially dangerous if you are using Yahoo Mail, because evenif you trust the person who sent you the document, your attachment will be downloaded in plaintext (via http, not https). This means that the exit node you use can replace or alter your document to unmask you (or worse, explo

Re: Rogue exit nodes - checking?

2010-06-19 Thread slush
Hello, yes, there is a way how to detect corrupted/malicious node. I wrote Tor exit node scanner with some advanced techniques (for example clustering or source tree analysis) as my thesis last year. During debugging and testing I checked all exit nodes with many common pages (google, few news pag

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:52:56 +0530 emigrant wrote: > when i give a keyword to search, in most cases, i get results in > languages i cannot read. > is there any way to keep it always to english? There is a fine FAQ answer for this: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/Tor