Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Bennett
Sorry I'm so far behind on email. Will try to catch up soon. On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:05:45 +0200 Sebastian Hahn m...@sebastianhahn.net wrote: On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: In any case, Sebastian started a trac

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Fromme
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:19 AM, John Brooks spec...@dereferenced.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Load Bear loadbear...@gmail.com wrote: I am aware of that limitation. However, I am currently less concerned about eavesdroppers between a given VPN and the destination than I am about

Re: AdvTor

2010-10-07 Thread Anon Mus
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM, kalitnik...@privatdemail.net wrote: Hello everyone. I found a fork (?) of tor software with GUI named Advanced Tor. I was surprised of its features, but found just nothing about it in web, though it has opened source placed in sf.net. Have you people discussed

Re: AdvTor

2010-10-07 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Anon Mus my.green.lant...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM, kalitnik...@privatdemail.net wrote: Hello everyone. I found a fork (?) of tor software with GUI named Advanced Tor. I was surprised of its features, but found just nothing about it

Re: AdvTor

2010-10-07 Thread Anon Mus
Nick Mathewson wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Anon Mus my.green.lant...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM, kalitnik...@privatdemail.net wrote: Hello everyone. I found a fork (?) of tor software with GUI named Advanced Tor. I was surprised of its features,

Re: AdvTor

2010-10-07 Thread andrew
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:20:08PM +0100, my.green.lant...@googlemail.com wrote 2.3K bytes in 55 lines about: : Well, well, well suddenly the problem fixes itself... after : 20+ disconnects and 10+ You are using a proxy which is changing : your data... refusing connection.. over the past 3

Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread hikki
The title says it all: Several people recommend running a hidden service from within a VM, to prevent attackers from doing side channel attacks and reading off your hardware components and serial numbers. Then I heard that attackers can actually break out of VM's if they get root access on it

Re: Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas S. Benjamin
Hikki, From a defense in depth point of view it can help to use a VM. It is not impossible for an adversary to break out of a VM, but if you are using a good VM it will at least require a pretty sophisticated attacker. I would say that using a VM would increase the security of your hidden

Re: Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Gomboc
Hi! If there is no back-door or bug in your VM software, how you wanna break out of the VM? Even with root privileges you will be a prisoner within the VM. Proof me wrong. Michael 2010/10/7 hi...@safe-mail.net The title says it all: Several people recommend running a hidden service from

Re: Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert Ransom
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:12:45 -0400 hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: Several people recommend running a hidden service from within a VM, to prevent attackers from doing side channel attacks and reading off your hardware components and serial numbers. Using a VM doesn't prevent most side-channel

Re: Hidden service: Is it possible for an attacker to break out of a VM?

2010-10-07 Thread andrew
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:31:14PM -0400, michael.gom...@gmail.com wrote 2.8K bytes in 78 lines about: : If there is no back-door or bug in your VM software, how you wanna break out : of the VM? That's a perfect world that doesn't exist. The VM software will have bugs, someone will exploit it.

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-07 Thread grarpamp
a free VPN There are VPN providers that will let you pay anonymously. Among others, I would be interested in reading posts containing lists of VPN providers that offer one or more of these two services. Thanks. *** To

Re: Me - Tor - VPN - Internet?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert Ransom
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 23:58:28 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: a free VPN There are VPN providers that will let you pay anonymously. Among others, I would be interested in reading posts containing lists of VPN providers that offer one or more of these two services. Thanks. No --