Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-15 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-02-14 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-14 Thread M
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > It sounds like you're describing a problem that only you have. Usually > when this happens, it is because of a Firefox addon conflict. You can > try a couple of things: > > 1. Use Tor Browser Bundle: > https://www.torproject.org/projects/tor

Re: Excluding exit nodes

2011-02-13 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-11 Thread M
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:40 AM, M wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:48 AM, krishna e bera wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 06:23:12AM +, M wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:57 AM, krishna e bera >> wrote: >> > And what about this (

Re: Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-11 Thread M
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:57 AM, krishna e bera wrote: > Bugs tend to get fixed faster and/or more efficiently > when they are entered into the bug tracking system. > I copied this email into a new one at > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2542 > thanks > > It would be helpful i

Re: Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-11 Thread M
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:08:17AM +0000, M wrote: > > I thought i would bring this to the attention of those concerned in case > > they already did not know. I am still unable to download any attachments, > > w

Problem with downloading attachments in torbrowser for osx

2011-02-11 Thread M
Hey guys, I thought i would bring this to the attention of those concerned in case they already did not know. I am still unable to download any attachments, whether yahoo or gmail, when running tor. The message which appears is "[JavaScript Application] Torbutton blocked direct Tor load of plug

Re: advice on using accounting...

2011-02-10 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 2/3/2011 5:53 PM, Geoff Down wrote: ... 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

Re: torr file question...

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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,

Re: Polipo bug reporting

2011-01-31 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Per-Tab Torbutton

2011-01-31 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 1/25/2011 1:25 PM, Jerzy Ɓogiewa 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

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-01-31 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

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

2011-01-15 Thread M
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > > You could also install an addon to observe the requests your browser > uses in both non-Tor and Tor accesses of this gadget to see if the > requests appear different for some reason. That may help diagnose the > cause: > https://addons.mozi

Re: Tor and google groups

2011-01-05 Thread M
> > Yes, but I have a nice collection of SIM cards from various countries... > Every time I travel (twice a month at least) I bring back some SIM cards for > this kind of "work"... > Maybe you should start up a gmail activation service! Or at least for us here in the group!

Re: "Cookie Mismatch" when using Gmail.

2011-01-05 Thread M
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Matthew wrote: > Hello, > > Here is what happens: > > I login to Gmail as normal. I go to Settings / Accounts and Import / > Change Account Settings - Google Account Settings. When I click on that > link the URL changes to https://www.google.com/accounts/CookieM

Re: The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor

2011-01-03 Thread M
I know its a bit off topic, but since we are on the subject of Skype, i have some questions on computer to computer phone calls... 1) Does an isp know what username you are connecting to skype? 2) Also, does the isp or the skype server know the person you are connecting with? 3) Also, from what

Re: https errors

2011-01-02 Thread M
> > What browser configuration? what exit relay at the time you are trying > to submit? > I am using TOR Browser Bundle for Mac, but it also does this for xp. I did not note the exit relay, but it is quite a common occurance which happens the majority of the time. It happens with various sites

https errors

2010-12-30 Thread M
Hey guys The majority of time i try to submit info over https, i get this message: An error occurred during a connection to ansar1.info. Peer reports incompatible or unsupported protocol version. (Error code: ssl_error_protocol_version_alert) I have ti try sending almost 5-10 times before it

!!!

2010-12-25 Thread M
CB3ROB from Antarctica!

Re: strange messages

2010-12-04 Thread M
Its the latest version of the Tor Browser for Mac. 1.0.4. On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Drake Wilson wrote: > Quoth M , on 2010-12-03 09:11:06 +: > > Hey again: > > > > i am getting this new message in forefox: > > > > Torbutton Sandbox evaluation failed.

Fwd: strange messages

2010-12-04 Thread M
?? -- Forwarded message -- From: M Date: Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:11 AM Subject: strange messages To: or-talk@freehaven.net Hey again: i am getting this new message in forefox: Torbutton Sandbox evaluation failed. Date hooks not applied! Any clues?

strange messages

2010-12-03 Thread M
Hey again: i am getting this new message in forefox: Torbutton Sandbox evaluation failed. Date hooks not applied! Any clues?

Re: Tor Browser Bundle for Mac OS X released

2010-11-01 Thread M
On 10/31/10, pho...@freeshell.org wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:35:44AM +, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 1.9K > bytes in 49 lines about: > : 1) The link on the site for 1.0.4 is not working. The file does not > : seem to exist at that location. > > https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser

Re: Tor Browser Bundle for Mac OS X released

2010-10-30 Thread M
Hey there... Couple of points. 1) The link on the site for 1.0.4 is not working. The file does not seem to exist at that location. 2) I tried to stop and restart TOR maybe 20 times, and still can't get the Namoroka to start (1.0.2). Maybe you can just allow users to start it with a double click

Re: Question about torbrowser for mac

2010-10-28 Thread M
The Torbutton was not visible, but after i instaled the addin manually, its both in the addon list and also on the bottom right. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:47 AM, M wrote: > ??? > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Justin Aplin wrote: > >> Thats why i was confirning whet

Re: Question about torbrowser for mac

2010-10-28 Thread M
??? On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Justin Aplin wrote: > Thats why i was confirning whether the torbutton was intentionally left >> our of the package and covered by noscript >> > > I don't see Torbutton installed either (latest browser bundle on OSX 10.5), > but I was under the assumption th

Re: Question about torbrowser for mac

2010-10-27 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Question about torbrowser for mac

2010-10-26 Thread M
No its not there Only 3: 1) Better Privacy 2) http everywhere 3) Noscript However the proxy settings were set to 127.0.0.1:8118 I installed it manually now like i did in 1.01. However.. the torbutton does not behave correctly at times. Sometimes when loading pages (not downloads), it gives the

Question about torbrowser for mac

2010-10-25 Thread M
There is no torbutton on 1.0.1. nor 1.0.2 bundles for mac in the firefox supplied. Should i install it manually?

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: several Tor crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: New Bundle Version 1.3.10

2010-10-16 Thread M
Why the switch to noscript? and link on the issue? On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:00:07AM -0400, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote > 5.1K bytes in 137 lines about: > : Well, I recently downloaded and extracted the USB Vidalia/Tor bundle > version 1.3.10. It ca

checking new email on adium

2010-10-13 Thread M
When Adium checks for new emails when an acct is routed thru tor.. will the eail checking also be routed thru it, or will it use the global settings?

Re: vidalia source tarball is missing

2010-10-11 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Mac Pidgin?

2010-10-04 Thread M
Is there any reason the firefox in torbrowser in mac does not have a torbutton? On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, M wrote: > Thanks for the google link. I usually try to solve a problem myself before > coming here. I have tried most of the links and nothing is working for me :( > > &

Re: Mac Pidgin?

2010-10-03 Thread M
Thanks for the google link. I usually try to solve a problem myself before coming here. I have tried most of the links and nothing is working for me :( On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Nils Vogels wrote: > Hey M, > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 09:35, M wrote: > > > > also.. a

Re: Mac Pidgin?

2010-10-03 Thread M
Bump... also.. anyone know how to get adium to connect to a yahoo acct? On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:39 AM, M wrote: > Thanks a bundle :) Working great. > > Another question is that if i copy vidalia, and portable firefox to an > encrypted drive and launch it from their.. will the

Re: Video: Na-Pak Army killing innocent children in Swat

2010-09-29 Thread M
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:24:07AM +, M wrote: > > Of course, it will always be from the "mafasid" for people to speak out > or > > fight back.. > > > > Complete video (close distance head shots included) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVPnJb2jn

Re: Mac Pidgin?

2010-09-29 Thread M
:46 +0000, M wrote: > > Hello agan, > > > > whats a good program for mac equivalent to XP pidgin? I'm looking for > > safe Tor configuration as well as encrypted chat. > > > Adium. > > > Is Adium safe to use with TOR? Also, does the encryption in it only

Fwd: Mac Pidgin?

2010-09-29 Thread M
??? -- Forwarded message -- From: M Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:46 AM Subject: Mac Pidgin? To: or-talk@freehaven.net Hello agan, whats a good program for mac equivalent to XP pidgin? I'm looking for safe Tor configuration as well as encrypted chat. Is Adium safe to use

Re: BetterPrivacy - necessary?

2010-09-29 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Mac Pidgin?

2010-09-29 Thread M
Hello agan, whats a good program for mac equivalent to XP pidgin? I'm looking for safe Tor configuration as well as encrypted chat. Is Adium safe to use with TOR? Also, does the encryption in it only work when chatting to others using adium also, or will it work if they are using Pidgin?

Video: Na-Pak Army killing innocent children in Swat

2010-09-23 Thread M
Of course, it will always be from the "mafasid" for people to speak out or fight back.. *Complete video (close distance head shots included)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVPnJb2jno *Short video (head shots censored)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaSADYX58E8 IF THE ABOVE VIDEOS ARE DELETED

Re: A few questions and potential answers:

2010-09-20 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

2010-09-10 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Why does this happen?

2010-09-09 Thread Aplin, Justin 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

Re: Google and Tor.

2010-08-25 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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;

Re: question on thunderbird and tor

2010-06-27 Thread M
NS leaks but I'm not sure about the actual data (ie your IP address) it sends. You should run this in TorVM (or whichever VM is current) or something to protect your privacy if you insist on using thunderbird. Ringo On 06/21/2010 01:06 AM, M wrote: > I h

question on thunderbird and tor

2010-06-20 Thread M
I have read some of the previous posts but fail to understand. I have configured my portable thunderbird to use TOR. In the proxy settings, i have entered port 8118, for http and ssl, and 9050 or socks 5. I have added 3 accts: gmail, yahoo, and hotmail. i can access yahoo and hotmail thru an

Re: Rogue exit nodes - checking?

2010-06-20 Thread John M. Schanck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:58:45PM +0200, slush wrote: [snip] > There are two ways how to fight attackers: > a) Opensource scanner and beat them by spending months on scanner > improvements. >

Re: Rogue exit nodes - checking?

2010-06-20 Thread John M. Schanck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:20:19PM +0100, Matthew wrote: > I am curious to know if there is a way of identifying "bad" exit > nodes? Do people who are more technical than me (not hard!) someho

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-19 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

2010-06-18 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

No fingerprint in "Notice" level log on Windows

2010-05-26 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: gwget and tor?

2010-05-26 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: Tor Exit Node hosting: torservers.net

2010-05-25 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: [OT] another proxy, but not open source :-(

2010-05-25 Thread Aplin, Justin M
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

Re: [GSoC] Improving Snakes on a Tor

2010-05-16 Thread John M. Schanck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:58:44PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:37:54PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote: > > Hmmm... so we aren't interested in having a clearer definition of what makes > > up a bad exit? From the follow

Re: Running a stable exit node without interference (Was blutmagie quad core upgrade)

2010-05-09 Thread M
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Selke wrote: > M schrieb: >> Okay, that cleared things a lot. I Guess that authorities treats that >> ip-range as an ISP. > > yes, as Timo already pointed out, my own Ripe assignment does the trick. > Authorities tr

Re: Running a stable exit node without interference (Was blutmagie quad core upgrade)

2010-05-08 Thread M
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Schoeler wrote: > M wrote: >> Hello > >> I've been wondering this for a long time. How do you keep your exit node >> running without interference from ISP / local police etc.? Especially >> when it's

Re: blutmagie quad core upgrade

2010-05-07 Thread M
able to run it about six days. I was able to get off the contract because ISP broke their promises. M Olaf Selke wrote: > hello, > > blutmagie exit node has replaced its former socket 775 core2 duo E8600 > cpu by a socket 775 core2 quad Q9650. Furthermore memory is upgraded > fro

[GSoC] Improving Snakes on a Tor

2010-04-30 Thread John M. Schanck
Hi or-talk, My name is John Schanck, I'm a third year CS student at Hampshire College, and I'll be working with Tor this summer through Google Summer of Code. First, let me say how excited I am to have this opportunity - I've been following the Tor project for several years now and can think of no

opening firefox and multiple profiles

2010-04-20 Thread M
1) Is there any way to start tbb-firefox (bundled) if i happen to close the window without maunally stopping TOR and restarting? 2) Is there a way i can make multiple profiles so that i can, say, log on to 2 yahoo accts in different windows? Appreciate any help. **

Re: Yahoo pains

2010-04-20 Thread M
On 4/21/2010 7:02 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: This is yahoo's way of blocking bots, or what it thinks are bots. Unfortunately, they don't give you a captcha to solve, they just want you to go away. I guess that means no current solution... :( ***

Re: Yahoo pains

2010-04-20 Thread M
On 4/21/2010 7:02 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:39:02AM +0500, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 55 lines about: 502 Server dropped connection The following error occurred while trying to access Any solution? This is yahoo's way of block

Yahoo pains

2010-04-20 Thread M
Yahoo has become a pain over the last several months.75% of the time, i get this message while browsing groups. : 502 Server dropped connection The following error occurred while trying to access *http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheTrueCall/pending*: *502 Server dropped connection

Re: RentalSponge exit-node cut off by ISP - The end of RentalSponge

2010-04-20 Thread M
how to get some new server to run tor-exit with but it could take a long time. M M wrote: > Hello list! > > Just wanted to tell you that I just today got couple of copyright-abuses > from the servers ISP. They thought that the server was r00ted. I replied > them in a friendly ma

RentalSponge exit-node cut off by ISP, uncertain future

2010-04-19 Thread M
keep up with crypting and decrypting onion skins. I changed the policy to allow exit to ports 20, 21, 80 and 443. I'm waiting for the ISP's answer to my email. The future of RentalSponge is uncertain but if I in any way can run it as an exit-node I will. I will inform this list as some new stuff

Re: Resend: fastestfox and too many connections

2010-04-02 Thread M
On 4/2/2010 4:31 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:24:22PM +0500, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 0.6K bytes in 16 lines about: - Does anyone know where the addon "fastestfox" compromises anonymity? Since this is a resend, clearly no one else knows, or if they do

Re: fastestfox and too many connections

2010-04-02 Thread M
ly directly: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > > Otherwise if you reply to this message I will forward it to the list for > you. > > -Faraaz > > Original Message ---- > Subject: fastestfox and too many connections > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:36:40 +0500 &g

Resend: fastestfox and too many connections

2010-04-02 Thread M
Original Message 2 Questions: - Does anyone know where the addon "fastestfox" compromises anonymity? When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this "search" be obeying TOR settings? - Yesterday i

fastestfox and too many connections

2010-03-31 Thread M
2 Questions: - Does anyone know where the addon "fastestfox" compromises anonymity? When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this "search" be obeying TOR settings? - Yesterday i opened the network map and it sh

google gears

2010-03-29 Thread M
If one is running a wordpress blog using TOR, will installing Google gears in order to speed up the process compromise anonymity in any way? Will it bypass the proxy settings or anything? *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to ma

Ypops with TOR

2010-02-02 Thread M
Hey guys I wanted to check my yahoo acct via thunderbird, and i found a program called ypops that allows you to do so. Can some explain to me or know of a links which explains how to torrify it? Ypops: http://ypopsemail.com/ *

Re: default setting in pidgin

2010-01-24 Thread M
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Ask the pidgin developers I think the default settings are actually done by the TOR programmers, as the default proxy settings are routed to TOR. and note that the *main* use case of pidgin is > probably *non*-anonymous IM where usuall

Re: default setting in pidgin

2010-01-24 Thread M
Thanks, so back to my main question, is there any reason to leave the default settings how they are? Any harm in changing them?

Re: default setting in pidgin

2010-01-24 Thread M
gt; > Hannah Schroeter wrote : > > Hi! > > > > (Please don't top-post). > > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:07:05PM +, M wrote: > > > >> The pidgin also has an OTR addon, so the point is also privacy along > with > >> anonymity, and

Re: default setting in pidgin

2010-01-24 Thread M
they may not even understand them. I fell the settings should be changed so that it does not log by default. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:30:10PM +, M wrote: > >I was wondering why the default settings in Pidgi

default setting in pidgin

2010-01-24 Thread M
Hi guys, I was wondering why the default settings in Pidgin in the TOR-IM-Browser is set to* log chats and private messages*. I think this is quite contrary to the main purpose of TOR, which is anonymity, as it may very well be compromised if the if the USB, etc, falls into the other people's hand

Re: [Kraut] Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-04 Thread M
Thanks much for the info everyone, and thanks for the links Karsten N. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Olaf Selke wrote: > Benjamin S. schrieb: > > > > I don't know if anonymouse is logging and if so, under which > > circumstances they give those logs. I do log, because I'm sitting in > > German

polipo problems

2010-01-03 Thread M
Hi, As polipo has now replaced privoxy in the default tor setup I am trying to use it, but it doesn't work. Could someone please help me do these 2 things: 1. Run polipo as a windows 2003 service. Everytime I try to start polipo as a service it crashes. I tried to set daemonise=true in the

Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-03 Thread M
10 at 1:29 PM, Benjamin S. wrote: > Am Freitag, den 01.01.2010, 03:52 + schrieb M: > > Hi M, > > just saw this thread and like to mention that I'm the operator of this > service. > > > tor-proxy.net > > > > Is it a good alternative if i am out without m

cpu usage

2010-01-03 Thread M
I noticed that when i run a separate instance of Firefox which is installed on my system while i have the torbrowser running, cpu usage runs very high, sometimes remaining at 100%. I there any correlation?

Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-03 Thread M
> > Also, any reason the TOR website does offer something like this? > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:11 AM, bao song wrote: > For myself, the problem with tor-proxy.net is that it is blocked by the > national filter here. > > So far, they haven't blocked https ports, so I can still use Tor. > > Mi

Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-01 Thread M
Also, any reason the TOR website does offer something like this? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:39 PM, M wrote: > thanks for the info. I understand that it cant be safer than the real > stuff, but objectively, i do believe its safer than other online proxies, > such as anonymouse? Am

Re: tor-proxy.net

2010-01-01 Thread M
thanks for the info. I understand that it cant be safer than the real stuff, but objectively, i do believe its safer than other online proxies, such as anonymouse? Am i correct? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:39 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:52:17AM +, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 0.8K >

tor-proxy.net

2009-12-31 Thread M
I came across this: tor-proxy.net Is it a good alternative if i am out without my TorBrowser Bundle? Whats the diff between the First option (express)and the third?

Re: Tor for Android

2009-10-12 Thread M
What about Tor for Nokias or PDAs? On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > There are some obvious improvements that could be made to the TorProxy > controller. The UI appears to be viewable only when my G1 keyboard is > closed. This doesn't work well with browsing the web with S

3 questions about how to setup TOR proxy chain

2009-08-14 Thread M
Hi, Could someone please answer these 3 questions (or point me to a place where I can find the answers): 1. I understand TOR uses 3 hops in its proxy chain. Is it possible to make it use less hops (i.ex: 1 or 2) or more hops (4, 5, ...) and how can I do this? 2. Is it possible to define the nod

Re: ShutdownWaitLength vs. 'restart' in init scripts

2009-06-26 Thread m
arked by # START OF LOCAL CHANGES and the end of local changes is marked by # END OF LOCAL CHANGES. I had little problems with tor eating all memory and slowing the server to a crawl until it was impossible even to ssh to the server. Played with ulimit and found working values. M ps: I'd real

Re: ShutdownWaitLength vs. 'restart' in init scripts

2009-06-23 Thread m
If the package came from Fedoras repository they may use their own init-scripts. Contact Fedoras bugreporting. M Bill McGonigle wrote: > Hi folks, > > I noticed a problem with the init script I have with the tor package on > Fedora 10. The 'restart' command (just a s

Re: Gsoc Idea: Lunux Tor/Firefox Bundle

2009-03-26 Thread M
On 25.03.2009 20:03, Aaron Lebahn wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600den...@gmail.com> wrote: This sounds like it could be a cool project. You might look into running it all inside a virtual machine with Qemu or VMWare. Damn Small Linux or Knoppix would probably

Vidalia on fedora 9

2008-12-11 Thread M
Does vidalia run on fedora 9? A message appears saying : no dependency or something similar

Re: connection dies

2008-12-05 Thread M
No. And by the way, this happens quite often. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:08 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:53:18PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1.3K > bytes in 24 lines about: > : I have pidgin configured with tor settings, and i can see that it is > : connected in th

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