On 2/15/2011 5:00 AM, morphium wrote:
2011/2/14 Julie C:
If this BadExit policy is being
made up ad-hoc, that's fine by me. If the offending Tor node operators want
to stand up and defend themselves, or their choices, that's fine too.
So, I as a Tor Node Operator now have to defend myself, beca
On 2/14/2011 7:48 AM, grarpamp wrote:
[snip]
If another example is needed, not that one is; Corporate, edu and
other LAN's sometimes think they can block 'ooo, encryption bad'
ports so they can watch their user's plaintext URL's with their
substandard vendor nanny watch tool of the day. All the w
On 2/13/2011 10:19 AM, Tomasz Moskal wrote:
[snip]
How someone can recognise if an exit node *might* be doing something
suspicious - like sniffing traffic for passwords? As far as I can tell
(with my limited knowledge that is!) it's by checking which ports the
node in question is making available
On 2/10/2011 6:34 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:19:27PM -0500, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
I run a no-exit relay that can sustain about a hundred KB/s but I need
to limit to about 4 GB/day to stay under bandwidth caps. I have
accounting set up but what happens now is that
On 2/3/2011 10:23 PM, Robert Ransom wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21:34 -0500
"Aplin, Justin M" wrote:
On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes?
In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo
On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes?
In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo,
which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS port of Tor. Disabling
Torbutton and entering the Tor SOCKS information
On 2/3/2011 5:53 PM, Geoff Down wrote:
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Neither could I. It may be entirely in memory. Nevertheless that was the
conclusion I came to. It's not the IP address being cached, it's the
response from the site I would say. Your new request is never being sent
(via your new IP) because Polipo is ret
Simply edit the torrc while both Tor and Vidalia are closed. Vidalia
edits the torrc file when changes are made using its interface; upon
starting up, however, I believe it gathers its parameters directly from
the torrc. In my experience when I write a custom torrc with Tor and
Vidalia closed,
On 1/31/2011 7:58 PM, Geoff Down wrote:
The difference is that the PPC bundle with vidalia 0.2.9 was built on a
10.3.9 ppc mac. However, the 10.3.9 machine died a smelly, melty
death during a build a few months ago.
Is nobody freecycling one? http://www.freecycle.org/group/US/
GD
I may be wro
On 1/25/2011 1:25 PM, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote:
Hello
Is it possible to have Torbutton activate Tor only on specified tabs and not
others? It would make Tor much more useful.
So far this is not possible, no. There is an ugly, but workable,
solution in using Firefox's profile manager. By creating
On 1/31/2011 6:05 AM, morphium wrote:
2011/1/31 Mike Perry:
So when I said in my earlier post that we don't need exit capacity
that bad, I meant it. Thanks, but no thanks. You are contributing
negative productivity, and none of the non-bitorrenting exits really
will notice your absence in terms
On 10/27/2010 6:16 AM, Erinn Clark wrote:
This is actually a weird Firefox thing -- depending on where you install the
extensions, they either show up in the add-on list or they don't. The Torbutton
extension is installed somewhere different from the other extensions, because
that was how I got i
On 10/18/2010 9:34 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
BTW, I don't see (or remember) the 'keys' folder or 'fingerprint'
file - don't remember seeing them in past.
My bad. These files only show up when one is running a bridge/relay/exit
node. The majority of my work with Tor is setting up and running exi
On 10/18/2010 9:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
Thanks Justin,
Good info for the future. Right now, really busy (job search) so went
back to stable ver of Vidalia bundle - for now.
Fair enough. Better one more working node on the network than a broken
one you don't have time to play with.
You
On 10/11/2010 6:21 PM, Erdem Bayer wrote:
Can someone please replace the tarball or update download URL?
Not a fix, but the source you're looking for can be found here:
https://www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia/vidalia-0.2.9.tar.gz
~Justin Aplin
On 9/29/2010 2:19 PM, Matthew wrote:
I currently use Tor + Polipo + Torbutton + NoScript.
Obviously there are other add-ons for Firefox out there such as
BetterPrivacy.
Are any other add-ons necessary or would people suggest I am now fully
protected?
Thanks.
There is no such thing as be
On 9/20/2010 4:22 AM, David Bennett wrote:
Bad Guys == Anyone blocking or monitoring a persons access to knowledge
Granted.
Q: What is to stop operatives working for the bad guys from running
tor proxies from 3rd party locations? Granted, they would only be able
to sample a portion of the tr
On 9/10/2010 5:29 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
Even if an editor were available that could handle line lengths
great enough to allow placement of each entire list onto a single line in
torrc,
I'm still in astonishment, wondering how I can actually exclude the
nodes that should be excluded.
I'm
On 9/9/2010 12:00 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
Try to use ntp...
I imagine this is either a case of the BIOS clock not being set to GMT,
or the incorrect time zone being selected in the OS. The easiest
solution, I think, would be to double-check your timezone setting and
enable NTP. If tha
On 8/25/2010 8:52 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
Thus spake Matthew (pump...@cotse.net):
On numerous occasions when using Google with Tor (yes, I know there are
other options like Scroogle) it claims I might be sending automated queries
and gives me a CAPTCHA. Sometimes this allows me to search;
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
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
On 6/18/2010 3:06 AM, Matthew wrote:
Apologies in advance for the basic-ness of this question. I cannot
find the answer with Google or in the Tor documentation.
I believe the answer you're looking for is #4 here:
https://www.torproject.org/download.html.en#Warning
In these cases, how is t
This may be borderline nitpicking, but a nice feature I've noticed when
configuring my PPC machines is that Vidalia catches a line from the log
starting "Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is...". I've found
it's useful to have at a glance in a number of testing and configuring
situatio
On 5/26/2010 7:39 AM, emigrant wrote:
is there a way to use gwget with tor?
most of the times i download a direct link in tor enabled firefox it
stops in the middle despite the internet connection is good.
I don't know about gwget, but plain wget supports http proxies, which
you can point at
On 5/25/2010 7:39 PM, Curious Kid wrote:
Yes, of course it should be obvious that it is not sponsored by The Tor Project.
Maybe it's just me, then. I tend to assume that anything not on the
official website isn't sponsored by the official project, unless they
make a point of explicitly sa
On 5/25/2010 6:22 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
"Proprietary" means the client companies pay for it, right? Which
means they are funding its development, right? Windows Server releases
are closed source, right? And client companies install and use it, right?
Now, none of that tells us "how ma
On 5/25/2010 4:59 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
You may well be assuming too much. It's not easy to know at this
point because it's still undocumented vaporware. I still think the
whole thing smacks of being a honeypot for gullible humans.
I'll admit I could be totally off base. But it's
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