Police raid in Erfurt, Germany on "Perfect Privacy", a commercial anon-service

2010-08-23 Thread heidenh...@attac.de
'Perfect Privacy', a commercial anon-service (25 Euros/month) for "encrypting your Internet and keep your identity and privacy protected from prying eyes" was raided on friday in Germany. http://www.perfect-privacy.com/index.html Niklas https://forum.perfect-privacy.com/showthread.php?t=2183

Re: PayPal is not the only organization that blocks Tor.

2010-08-23 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Matthew wrote: > It is also worth noting that Craigslist prevents the use of Tor albeit in a > very strange way. > > If you try to post using Tor the ad will be permitted at first and people > can contact you.  However, after about 15 minutes (and it is always abou

Re: PayPal is not the only organization that blocks Tor.

2010-08-23 Thread grarpamp
> It is also worth noting that Craigslist prevents the use of Tor albeit in a > very strange way. I can second having similar problems with Craigslist, albeit from another fixed, yet listed, location on the globe. Any Torizens in SF, feel free to swing by CL and offer them your cluebat, I offer v

PayPal is not the only organization that blocks Tor.

2010-08-23 Thread Matthew
It is also worth noting that Craigslist prevents the use of Tor albeit in a very strange way. If you try to post using Tor the ad will be permitted at first and people can contact you. However, after about 15 minutes (and it is always about 15 minutes) the post is "flagged" and disappears.

Re: https proxy [was polipo]

2010-08-23 Thread grarpamp
>>> I can see it could provide some protection against... >> No. Why do you think it could? > - because by default - lots of additional reasons... The shim was just supposed to be a tool so you could hook into an http[s] stream and do whatever with it, or nothing at all. For instance, I've always

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread David Carlson
On 8/23/2010 2:05 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:17 + James Brown wrote: "Our records indicate that your password may have been shared with another person, or that an anonymising proxy to access your PayPal Account may be in use. Should this be the case, it would mean a

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread James Brown
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:17 + > James Brown wrote: >> "Our records indicate that your password may have been shared with >> another person, or that an anonymising proxy to access your PayPal >> Account may be in use. Should this be the case, it would mean a >> violation

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread James Brown
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:17 + > James Brown wrote: >> "Our records indicate that your password may have been shared with >> another person, or that an anonymising proxy to access your PayPal >> Account may be in use. Should this be the case, it would mean a >> violation

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Jon
Hm, I use TOR almost every time I use paypal, especially if I am on a site I do not trust well or its the first time I been on the site. So far, I have never had an issue other than occasionally locking my account. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM, James Brown wrote: > They block accounts of

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Jon
Hm, I use Top almost every time I use pay pay, Especially if I am on a site I do Not trust well or its the first time I been on the site. So far, I have never had an issue other than occasionally locking my account. Jon On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:48 AM, James Brown wrote: > They block accoun

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:52:17 + James Brown wrote: > "Our records indicate that your password may have been shared with > another person, or that an anonymising proxy to access your PayPal > Account may be in use. Should this be the case, it would mean a > violation of our User Agreement. They

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread James Brown
Andrew Lewman wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:13 + > > James Brown wrote: > > >> >> They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another >> >> anonymous proxy!!! > > > > I think the answer here is more complex. I've used tor's paypal-based > > donation account through Tor w

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread James Brown
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:13 + > James Brown wrote: > >> They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another >> anonymous proxy!!! > > I think the answer here is more complex. I've used tor's paypal-based > donation account through Tor without issue for

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Seth David Schoen
Andrew Lewman writes: > I've attempted to have conversations with Paypal to no avail. Getting > an actual human to talk to you with a clue about their security > measures is incredibly difficult. I'll put Andrew in touch with a contact at PayPal. Unfortunately, their view may be that Tor is fre

Re: https proxy [was polipo]

2010-08-23 Thread coderman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 AM, morphium wrote: >> I can see it could provide some >> protection against ssl/ssh mitm attacks. > > No. Why do you think it could? - because by default applications trust either a large, promiscuous set of certificate authorities, or even worse, use the operating s

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
And I imagine that means you were too nice to respond with "Can I please talk to someone who actually understands what I am talking about?" Way back in the day when ISPs offered shell accounts, I noticed that ping was in sbin on solaris. So I made myself a ~/bin dir and made a sym link to ping (I

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:48:13 + James Brown wrote: > They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another > anonymous proxy!!! I think the answer here is more complex. I've used tor's paypal-based donation account through Tor without issue for years. Possibly, Paypal has a bot

Re: Tor + SELinux sandbox = leak proof without VM overhead?

2010-08-23 Thread coderman
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > ... > I think it's obvious that the best way of using tor is running your > torrified apps in a VM which can only access the outside world via > TOR. This provides the highest protection from network leaks and also > partially thwarts finge

Re: polipo

2010-08-23 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> For the most part, anything involving HTTPS, needs to be taken care of in > the browser itself. My personal opinion (and I'm the author of Polipo) is that all content munging should be done in the browser -- munging in the proxy is a broken design. Unfortunately, the browser vendors care more a

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
On 2010-08-23 18:48, James Brown wrote: > They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another > anonymous proxy!!! Hmm. Have I been lucky? (non-exit...) *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org

The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread James Brown
They block accounts of their user if users ised the Tor or another anonymous proxy!!! *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Re: https proxy [was polipo]

2010-08-23 Thread morphium
> I can see it could provide some > protection against ssl/ssh mitm attacks. No. Why do you think it could? > It could better protect the > "browser" (or other app) by moving some of the ssl/tls/cert logic out to an > open source proxy of sorts. Protect? Of what? How? > It could better protect

Re: https proxy [was polipo]

2010-08-23 Thread Julie C
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:18 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > > Nothing in the open source field can do so yet afaik. > > To do it, a shim needs to be coded and placed between the application and > Tor. > user <-> browser <-> [optional tool] <-> shim <-> tor:9050 > > The shim needs to listen on a proxy por