Re: Declining traffic

2010-04-23 Thread Brian Mearns
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I'm seeing declining traffic over the last few weeks, please see graph: > It dropped from a sustainted 2,5Mbps (or more) to about a fifth, with a > massive drop today. > > I'm runnin

Re: I exclude all bloxortsipt nodes in my tor use

2009-12-04 Thread Brian Mearns
2009/12/4 : > "Weird shit: > > bloxortsipt > supp...@truxton.com > 74.240.51.79 > 74.238.241.32 > 74.238.240.47 > 69.40.11.93 > 68.90.41.105 > 64.90.29.217 > 209.169.89.26 > (and other IPs) > [snip] Did you try emailing supp...@truxton.com, find out what the deal is? -- Feel free to contact me

Re: livejournal ban tor-nodes

2009-11-24 Thread Brian Mearns
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM, James Brown wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The Livejournal has blocked access to that resource through the Tor. > It is certainly the consequence of purshasing the LJ of Russian company > "SUP" by order of Putin and FSB. > That decisio

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Erilenz wrote: > * on the Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote: > >>> That's fine, as long as you're assuming that people only use Tor when they >>> need >>> strong anonymity. As soon as you realise that people who don't need strong >>> anon

Re: Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

2009-11-17 Thread Brian Mearns
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Erilenz wrote: > The following occured to me. Tor is designed to protect users from > traffic analysis by very technical adversaries. There are many use > cases where that level of protection isn't required. In those cases, > if there was a config option to reduce

Related topic (Privacy): Brittain wants to track all telecom usage

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Mearns
I thought quite a few people on this list might be interested in this story, regarding privacy on networks. Maybe it will lead to more people using Tor, or maybe it will lead to increased legal pressure on Tor users and relay operators. http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/british

Re: Tor WIN in germany :)

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Mearns
he presumption of innocence was upheld: > Reppe's Tor server only anonymizes and encrypts activity, it is not itself > the source of illegal activities, and thus the court had to acquit him. > > Please send questions to t...@morphium.info and they will be promptly > answer

Re: Kaspersky wants to make Tor illegal and supports a globalized policed internet.

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Mearns
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:04 PM, John Case wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: [clip] >>> I'd like to change the design of the Internet by introducing >>> regulation--Internet passports, Internet police and international >>> agreement--about following Internet standards. And if some

Re: Tor WIN in germany :)

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Mearns
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> And here is the german press release: >> >> http://klangbuero.net/2009/10/29/freispruch-fur-tor/ > > Please publish an English translation, so it gets Googlified. > >                                        Juliusz > *

Re: Node received the reload signal (hup)...what does that mean?

2009-10-04 Thread Brian Mearns
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:30:01AM -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: >> I discovered my relay had shut it's self off this morning, and I found >> this log message: Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and >>

Node received the reload signal (hup)...what does that mean?

2009-10-04 Thread Brian Mearns
I discovered my relay had shut it's self off this morning, and I found this log message: Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal state. This was followed by a bunch of errors about my config file that apparently prevented it from restarting (but I think I can probably

Re: Is it desirable to prevent users from choosing their own circuits?

2009-10-02 Thread Brian Mearns
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Brian Mearns wrote: > >> > Perhaps I don't understand your suggestion, but how >> > would a hash translate to a relay address?  The >> > maximum possible strength of a hash is related

Re: Is it desirable to prevent users from choosing their own circuits?

2009-10-02 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Brian Mearns wrote: > >> My understanding is that Tor user's are responsible (via their client) >> for creating their own circuit, and that this is typically >> done at random. However, are the

Is it desirable to prevent users from choosing their own circuits?

2009-10-01 Thread Brian Mearns
My understanding is that Tor user's are responsible (via their client) for creating their own circuit, and that this is typically done at random. However, are there any safeguards in place to ensure that it is random, and would this be desirable? I would imagine that attackers might try to choose s

Re: Random chaff [was: more work for Grobbages]

2009-09-23 Thread Brian Mearns
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:19:17PM -0400, Ted Smith wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 04:25 -0400, grarpamp wrote: >> > Nodes usually have a max bandwitch set. >> > Nodes often comsume less than this. >> > All node to node traffic is encrypted

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > - Forwarded message from Ted Smith - > > From: Ted Smith > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:11:12 -0400 > To: Eugen Leitl > Cc: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net > Subject: Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you >        de

Re: "I Write Mass Surveillance Software"

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Mearns
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Rich Jones wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9kwph/i_am_a_guy_who_writes_covert_software_that_runs/ > > Thoughts? > > also, I realized that two of the posts I've made this this list have now > been reddit-related. Sorry about that. But I'd really like

Re: Vidalia exit-country and Hulu

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Mearns
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Flamsmark wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:02, Brian Mearns wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bao song >> wrote: >> > >> > Some time ago (2008) I read about a Canadian who used Tor to view Hulu. >>

Re: Vidalia exit-country and Hulu

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Mearns
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bao song wrote: > > Some time ago (2008) I read about a Canadian who used Tor to view Hulu. > > I tried it from outside the US, and it worked, but the speed was too slow for > me to use it regularly. Today, a clip from Hulu was highly recommended by the > New Yor

Re: Reliable relay status check

2009-09-11 Thread Brian Mearns
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Gitano wrote: > Brian Mearns wrote: > >> Is there a way to test that my relay is working? My logs indicate that >> ORPort and DirPort are both "reachable from the outside", but several >> different websites (such as https://tors

Faking a local connection to services running on exit node

2009-09-10 Thread Brian Mearns
I have a relay running on the same system as several other services. Some of these services only accept connections from the localhost (or otherwise give special privileges to localhost) . If I allow my relay to be an exit node, someone attempting to connect to these services through Tor will appea

Reliable relay status check

2009-09-10 Thread Brian Mearns
Is there a way to test that my relay is working? My logs indicate that ORPort and DirPort are both "reachable from the outside", but several different websites (such as https://torstat.xenobite.eu/) can't find my relay (nicknamed "shallot"). Thanks, -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP En