Re: Good reasons to use Tor etc.

2007-01-04 Thread George Shaffer
questioned, was the only one who actually read and responded to what I said. On reading his answer, I suggested that he consider GnuPG or PGP, in lieu of or together with Tor, as a possibly better means of accomplishing his specific purposes. George Shaffer -- Get my GnuPG public key from http

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
. If there is anyone who has solved this problem on a similar **Linux** system, I'd like to know how. Thank you, George Shaffer On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:51, Michael Holstein wrote: It's easy. Start your first instance of firefox as usual. Start the second one like this : /path/to/firefox

Re: Opening 2 Firefox profiles

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
windows were already open. I'm not aware any other related boxes, not on the dialog itself, but if there is one that could be the problem. George Shaffer ~Mike. George Shaffer wrote: It may be easy on your system but not mine. I've read this works on Windows. My experience is that it does

Re: Question for Job and others

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
and I am new at Tor this seems to be a good place to start and look for extra information. It is. Since I've been reading this list I've learned a lot about anonymity and privacy that go beyond pure Tor issues. George Shaffer -- Get my GnuPG public key from http://geodsoft.com/about/ or use

Re: Question for Job and others / was: Re: Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

2007-01-03 Thread George Shaffer
in such a case, than trying to trace Tor's routing. George Shaffer -- Get my GnuPG public key from http://geodsoft.com/about/ or use gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key A1A23194 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2006-10-31 Thread George Shaffer
/ It is a better text only browser than Lynx. I always use it when searching things on the web. Fast (even faster with keyboard), reliable and secure! /K --- George Shaffer skrev: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:46, Tim McCormack wrote: Chris Willis wrote: NO browser (cept maybe a text

Apology: was Re: reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help / new Tor guide is up

2006-10-31 Thread George Shaffer
Sorry, the following was meant to be private. I thought I'd replaced [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the author's email but realized too late that I had not. On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 21:05, George Shaffer wrote: Learn to read the whole thread before posting. I discussed links and said it was better than

Re: Possible fishing attempt for eBay

2006-10-31 Thread George Shaffer
the first to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if it is pure coincidence that two people on this list got the same phishing emails. Did anyone else get these? George Shaffer

Re: Practical onion hacking: finding the real address of Tor clients

2006-10-24 Thread George Shaffer
Fabian, there is no point in any further response to most of what you are saying. We seem to be going in circles. On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 08:22, Fabian Keil wrote: George Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The risks of JavaScript, Flash and friends are mentioned several times in the docs

Re: Practical onion hacking: finding the real address of Tor clients

2006-10-21 Thread George Shaffer
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:53, Fabian Keil wrote: George Shaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:47, Fabian Keil wrote: . . . They aren't attacking Tor, but misconfigured applications behind the Tor client. Which they said quite clearly in different words: Clearly

Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-10 Thread George Shaffer
On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 Total Privacy replied to George Shaffer: As for the DNS leaks, I think more is being made of this than it Was´nt this solved several months ago, in Torpark (Windows)? I have no idea, but even if it was, it doesn't mean it's solved in Tor. If so, their solution may

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-07 Thread George Shaffer
does not look like a simple task. I'm reluctant to do more of these scans because they are an unauthorized port scan against the exit node. If however I see another of the strange pages discussed in this thread I will try to capture the page and then quickly do a scan. George Shaffer

Re: tor and its speed

2006-10-07 Thread George Shaffer
, a product like this could increase your total consumed bandwidth by 2 to 10 times. Please reconsider using Fasterfox, or any prefetching product, on the Tor network. George Shaffer

Re: Confused about Tor settings

2006-10-05 Thread George Shaffer
out Tor in a year or two when it should be easier to use and more robust. It looks like a potentially better solution that any of the commercial privacy services. George Shaffer