More flexible IP-tables and TOR ?

2010-08-24 Thread heidenh...@attac.de
It is certainly cool to ONLY allow Tor to the internet, but in my opinion in real world, there are some connections/circumstances where you want don't want to have Tor in the middle: Mail, Webaccounts, data-intensive downloads/upgrades. I think, that's where p.e. Torbutton comes in ... and the tro

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

2010-08-24 Thread Kyle Williams
This is my 2 cents in regards to Paypal. Paypal is not a bank, and thus does not have to play by anyone's rules but their own. They can freeze your account without reason, not give you an answer as to why they've done this, and ultimately can steal your money without your consent. IMO, they are wo

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

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:31:26PM -0500, David Carlson wrote: > On 8/24/2010 5:09 AM, Michael Scheinost wrote: >> On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: >>> I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your >>> connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch To

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

2010-08-24 Thread David Carlson
On 8/24/2010 9:56 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:04:04 -0500 David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off when multitasking, but it would seem that Tor butto

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

2010-08-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, David Carlson wrote: > If I understand that correctly, it means that my ISP can tell that I am > having a secure communication with, say, Paypal, even if the contents of my > communication is encrypted.  Is that correct?  Wouldn't I be lost in the > crowd of others

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

2010-08-24 Thread David Carlson
On 8/24/2010 5:09 AM, Michael Scheinost wrote: On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off No, it's not an overkill since tor does not provide end-to-

Re: How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-08-24 Thread coderman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > # Set the hard limit of open file descriptors really high. > # Tor will also potentially run out of ports. > ulimit -SHn 65000 typically in /etc/security/limits.conf. i like to append: * softnofile 4096 *

Translation update

2010-08-24 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
Hi everyone, The goal of this email is to summarize what's happened on the translation front recently, and to answer some of the questions that I have been asked either on IRC or in emails. In July, I upgraded Pootle on https://translation.torproject.org/. This version has an improved interface a

Re: IP-tables and TOR

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:54:14 -0400 Michael Gomboc wrote: > Could some net filter expert give me some advise how to use iptables > with TOR? For your specific question, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/BlockNonTorTrafficDebian For the larger question of pushing traffi

Re: IP-tables and TOR

2010-08-24 Thread Jason
Michael Gomboc wrote: Hi! Could some net filter expert give me some advise how to use iptables with TOR? I'm trying the following to drop all non TOR connections: iptables -F INPUT iptables -F OUTPUT iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT iptables

IP-tables and TOR

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Gomboc
Hi! Could some net filter expert give me some advise how to use iptables with TOR? I'm trying the following to drop all non TOR connections: iptables -F INPUT iptables -F OUTPUT iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Perry
After talking to Moritz and Olaf privately and asking them about their nodes, and after running some experiments with some high capacity relays, I've begun to realize that running a fast Tor relay is a pretty black art, with a lot of ad-hoc practice. Only a few people know how to do it, and if you

firefox cookieswap with Tor?

2010-08-24 Thread emigrant
Is firefox cookieswap is safe to use with Tor? thanks all. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

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

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:04:04 -0500 David Carlson wrote: > I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route > your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on > and off when multitasking, but it would seem that Tor button could do > that. Tor provides anonymit

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

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew
On 24/08/10 11:09, Michael Scheinost wrote: On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off No, it's not an overkill since tor does not provide end-to-en

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

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Scheinost
On 08/23/2010 10:04 PM, David Carlson wrote: > I am a newbie here. Since they use SSL, isn't it overkill to route your > connection through Tor? I know it is a pain to switch Tor on and off No, it's not an overkill since tor does not provide end-to-end encryption, but anonymity on the level of I

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

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew
On 23/08/10 23:21, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: 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

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

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew
On 23/08/10 23:21, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: 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 a

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

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Perry
English version: https://blog.perfect-privacy.com/2010/08/20/perfect-privacy-staff-member-gets-house-search/ Appears to be possibly related to their SSH/VPN service, not their Tor nodes. As far as I can tell, they've run no Tor exits recently, only Guards. Thus spake heidenh...@attac.de (heidenh