RE: reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help / new Tor guide is up

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Willis
I have to add a bit to this one: NO browser (cept maybe a text browser in BSD or something) is really 100% safe on its own. Firefox has lots of vulnerabilities, just like IE. That is why you use privoxy with Tor. http://www.privoxy.org/ If you use IE 7, you can start IE 7 with Add-ons disabled

RE: reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Willis
Can Ben access the VMWare site? If so, then the Janus VM seems like an excellent way to use the TOR network. http://janusvm.peertech.org/ It requires VMWare, which is a free product. I obviously can't attest to whether the VM is itself compromised. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

RE: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Willis
I am very interested in this. While not a tech guru, I would be happy to assist (if I get any spare time). My own TOR node on my colo'ed web server (200KB/sec baby - now THAT is a contribution to the project) certainly doesn't do anything like this - I was dumb enough to just install, configure &