Re: Internet censorship in Germany is now official

2009-04-22 Thread Niels Grewe
On 22.04.2009 at 15:01 Karsten N. wrote: Tor nodes are not affected by the law. At least not directly, but their operators could be more prone to be implicated in some police investigation, because an exit-node IP may repeatedly appear in the log files of the pages where blocked requests

Default ORPort 443 [was: Re: German data rentention law]

2008-10-19 Thread Niels Grewe
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:44:15AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >If nothing else, defaulting to 443 would allow a greater number of > >"hotspot" laptops access to TOR from HTTP/S-only networks. > > > Doing that, however, *would* make it rather difficult for the same > machine--or another mac

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-28 Thread Niels Grewe
On 28.01.2008 at 20:10 Matthew MacGregor wrote: I have no knowledge of the fact, but is there not some provision in the laws of any countries with these crypto laws to deal with the, "I forgot" defense. Because I can see every single person being asked for their passphrase to use this defe

Re: Like to run TOR-Node

2007-09-14 Thread Niels Grewe
On 14.09.2007 at 16:47 Ricky Fitz wrote: Probably we should start a Wiki-Page with experiences about different Hosting-Provider? There is already a corresponding wiki page: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs Strato is not yet listed, but it would be nice to have some

Re: Tor appliance

2006-09-15 Thread Niels Grewe
On 15.09.2006 at 19:12 Michael Tharp wrote:Ideally you'd have a board with a mini-PCI slot in which to put a SSL accelerator, since the puny router CPU probably can't handle crypto too well. Soekris ( http://www.soekris.com/ ) boards would be good for this. Some routers e.g. v.1.0 of the WRT54G or

Re: tor server Address

2006-09-14 Thread Niels Grewe
On 15.09.2006 at 08:43 gabrix wrote:, so i have to update manually his pubblic ip anytime it changes ,thenetgear reboots or whatever, how could i fix this ???Thanks !!! You could get an dyndns account (static hostname assigned to a changing ip) and set the Address option in your torrc to that hostn

Re: An observation

2006-09-10 Thread Niels Grewe
On 10.09.2006 at 19:09 Roger Dingledine wrote:What's next? Requiring government-issued IDs at Internet cafes like inItaly, or in libraries? Actually, this is being suggested in Germany at the moment [1].  Niels[1] http://rabe.supersized.org/archives/800-Schuetzenhilfe-fuer-Internetueberwachung.html

Re: GERMAN JUSTICE MINISTER CALLS FOR LIMITS TO NET ANONYMIZER

2006-08-23 Thread Niels Grewe
On 23.08.2006 at 19:09 Robert Hogan wrote:"If there was reasonable suspicion of a crime and if the German Code of Criminal Procedure provided for such an approach in the case in question, it was quite possible to register the IP addresses of computers, Mr. Weichert observed."Umm. So it's only anony

Re: A brief response on TRUTHWORTHY

2006-08-18 Thread Niels Grewe
On 18.08.2006 at 17:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Of course you can still use your cryptic keys, if you want to, just like the internet uses ip addresses today. But for many internal torland websites, a userfriendly URL like alternative, supported by something akin to a torlandDNS system, would be

Re: Mac / Intel / Tiger / Only Tor & Privoxy / Tor can't start / no user _tor

2006-08-09 Thread Niels Grewe
On 09.08.2006 at 23:59 News Assi wrote: Hi,I've installed your "only tor & provoxy" package, but it seems so, thatno user will be created by this package, how can I fix that?Hello,I'm quite confident that the package was supposed to create a user for tor to run under. As a quick fix, here are some