Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha is out (security patches)

2011-01-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, most of which

Polipo starts on bootup

2011-01-18 Thread andre76
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and have the Tor browser bundle installed. After Ubuntu boots up and I try to start Tor I find that Tor won't start. I found that Polipo is running so I did a Pidof polipo and then a sudo kill (for the polipo process number). Is there any reason I should have Polipo o

Re: How to use Google Gadgets with Tor? - Is this possible?

2011-01-18 Thread Matthew
Let's try some science. We need a control, so lets create a blank Firefox profile. This requires running firefox with a command of 'firefox -P'. This will bring up the profile window and then you can create a blank profile and try to set your proxy to use Tor and try it again, and then try non-T

Re: Torservers: Update on move to UK & on the association

2011-01-18 Thread Dirk
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Re: Why my aptitude changes my tor package?

2011-01-18 Thread intrigeri
Hi, James Brown wrote (18 Jan 2011 07:22:38 GMT) : > Somedays ago my aptitude authomatically installed the new Tor version > '0.2.1.29-1~~lenny+1' from http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org > Today it have replaced it to such version 'http://security.debian.org' > Why? Is it normal? Thanks to