Re: Orbot transparent proxy working on rooted android?

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
e I do is create a PPTP VPN tunnel back to my home > server that is running JanusVM. > > The downside is everything goes through the vpn, including apps like e-mail > when all you want is a browser using it. > > On Sep 14, 2010 7:27 PM, "Stephen Carpenter" wrote: >>

Orbot transparent proxy working on rooted android?

2010-09-14 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Has anyone had any luck getting orbot working on android 2.2? I installed it from the market, and it of course, immediately set out to root the android. I did it, and orbot requested root access, I granted it. Then I turned on transparent proxy, and selected "browser" and a couple of other apps to

Re: The team of PayPal is a band of pigs and cads!

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Carpenter
And I imagine that means you were too nice to respond with "Can I please talk to someone who actually understands what I am talking about?" Way back in the day when ISPs offered shell accounts, I noticed that ping was in sbin on solaris. So I made myself a ~/bin dir and made a sym link to ping (I

Re: HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:47 AM, wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:34:01PM -0700, mikepe...@fscked.org wrote 1.7K > bytes in 51 lines about: > : The eventual idea is to allow an Adblock Plus style model, where users > : can submit and exchange rule files and eventually create subscriptions > :

Re: problem with bridges and a suggestion

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:51 AM, wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:18:44PM +0800, for.tor.bri...@gmail.com wrote 1.3K > bytes in 36 lines about: > : this morning, I got some new bridges through a hidden https proxy and > : established a TOR circuit, but after some time, I lost the connection

Re: Reducing relays = reducing anonymity ? Tortunnel.

2010-05-19 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> Is tortunnel evil since it maybe hacks Tor-cirucits to reduce the number >> of relays ? > > Yes, unfortunately quite a few people use it. > It hurts the network by endangering exit node operators, and > by completely ignoring any of the lo

Re: What can see a server of a Bittorent when I contact with it through Tor?

2010-02-25 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:20 AM, grarpamp wrote: > I don't think there's much of anything wrong with using Tor for bittorrent > provided: > a) You do all operations in Tor... NO use of exit relays, in other words, > entirely in onionspace. The smart reader will already know how to > configure this

Re: Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Two things On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:03 AM, wrote: > It sounds like you need to create a new profile and see if it has the > same issues, or simply purge the firefox installed and install it again. Fixed it! Many thanks! Maybe I should nuke my anonymous profile from orbit now and again anywa

Re: Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:54:04PM -0500, thec...@gmail.com wrote 3.9K bytes > in 75 lines about: > : A while back I setup a second firefox profile just for tor, and recently > : installed torbutton instead of "leaving it naked". Now I am quite unamused.

Re: Tor relay security

2010-02-03 Thread Stephen Carpenter
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Jan Reister wrote: > Il 03/02/2010 13:59, onion.s...@nym.hush.com ha scritto: >> 1. The article talks about encrypting sensitive information on a >> Tor server. Does the author mean that files on hard disk are >> obtainable by other Tor users when I run a Tor relay?

Firefox woes with .onion and proxies

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
This is more of a firefox issue than tor, but I am hoping someone has run into this and knows what I am seeing. Firefox/torbutton/tor has me about to rip hair out. I have used tor for a while, kicked around a location hidden service. Decided I wanted to experiment some more. A while back I setup

Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-04-20 Thread Stephen Tyree
d. With my mentor Matt Edman's assistance I intend to do just that. My name is Stephen Tyree and I'm a second year PhD student in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My research interests deal with general cryptography, secure information processing schemes and informati

Re: Tor on Nokia Internet Tablet?

2008-09-05 Thread Stephen Hildrey
Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I've about ~768kbit/s upstream and an un-used Nokia770 internet tablet, with an ARM9 clocked at 250mhz. Do you think it would make sence running a TOR relay on it, and do you think the ARM would be able to keep up even with this low bandwith. Some performance tests su

Re: Tor server on NSLU2: ORPort unreachable

2008-06-07 Thread Stephen Hildrey
Eugen wrote: Hi, I want to run a Tor middle node on a NSLU2 device (266Mhz, 32 MB RAM). I installed Debian etch version on it for ARM platform, and it works great.. [snip] But reachability of the ORPort fails... [snip] Eugen, I tried this a year or two ago and experienced the same problem.

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-26 Thread Stephen Hildrey
F. Fox wrote: > maillist wrote: > (snip) >> They took all my computers and tried >> to take my UPS before I convinced them that it's not a computer. > > No offense, but... LMAO! That's just sad; they can't tell a computer > from a UPS... You laugh, but perhaps the Finnish authorities had seen thi

Re: Manual exit selection and HTTP host

2007-11-05 Thread Stephen Hildrey
Gregory Maxwell wrote: It seems that when I use manual exit selection (http://somesite.com.somenode.exit/) that my browser is sending the node/exit name back in the HTTP request. This seems like a bad idea in general and moreover it breaks some sites vhosting configuration. Am I missing somethin

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-16 Thread Stephen
i.org/ -- Open Rights Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ -- Any comments and further focus/opinion? Regards, Stephen

Re: Has anyone had the identity revealed in Tor?

2007-09-14 Thread Stephen
Drake Wilson wrote: "If the NSA were keeping tabs on Tor users somehow, it'd be very hard to find out." In some instances maybe so, in other instances not so hard to know: http://cryptome.org/nsa-ip-update8.htm Regards, Stephen

Re: Tor binary signatures

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Hildrey
JT wrote: > Hi, > > thx for the link!! Great! > > I have been using PGP for a while but never used a keyserver. > I checked out the one at noreply. To make my key known to the world I > only have to paste it into that form and all other keyservers will > synch? > Is that correct? I think most bi

Re: More strange behaviour of Tor 0.2.0.2 Alpha & vidalia 0.0.12

2007-06-20 Thread Stephen
I've observed this for the last 15 minutes, so these higher rates seem to be quite consistent. Regards, Stephen

More strange behaviour of Tor 0.2.0.2 Alpha & vidalia 0.0.12

2007-06-20 Thread Stephen
tton, each time I did this it produced the old IP address, I repeated the action and it produced the new IP address, I repeated the action it produced the old IP address, ad infinitum! So, I chose the new IP address, re-started Tor & the new IP address was acknowledged in the Message Log but still I had the reduced bandwidth rate. Strange indeed! Regards, Stephen

Re: locking down windows to run as a server on XP Pro

2007-06-17 Thread Stephen
occur. Workstation Creates and maintains client network connections to remote servers. Any clarification on these would be appreciated - my apologies for the long list - windows, don't you just love to hate it?! Regards, Stephen

locking down windows to run as a server on XP Pro

2007-06-17 Thread Stephen
these issues would be appreciated! Regards, Stephen

a solution on the horizon to counteract detecting temperature through clock skew (on Tor Hidden Services)?

2007-05-14 Thread Stephen
Microprocessor resistant to power analysis: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,205,794.PN.&OS=PN/7,205,794&RS=PN/7,205,794

a solution on the horizon to counteract detecting temperature through clock skew (on Tor Hidden Services)?

2007-05-13 Thread Stephen
Microprocessor resistant to power analysis: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,205,794.PN.&OS=PN/7,205,794&RS=PN/7,205,794

Privoxy not needed with Thunderbird?

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Anonymizing Thunderbird News w/ Tor

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[off topic] More 'bad press' for online anonymity/freedom of speech

2007-03-29 Thread Stephen
" The support for a blogger hounded by death threats has intensified with some high profile web experts calling for a code of conduct in the blogosphere. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502643.stm Regards, Stephen

Re: server status 'offline'

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen
unning XP Pro but I don't know if this is likely to make that much of a difference. From browsing the server list, it would seem that some people are using XP Pro, so maybe this would be a better choice? Any suggestions/advice would be welcome. Regards, Stephen

server status 'offline'

2007-03-12 Thread Stephen
s advertised as 'offline' even though I continue to run Tor & I am online. Any explanation/advice would be appreciated. Regards, Stephen

Server Status 'Offline'

2007-03-12 Thread Stephen
s advertised as 'offline' even though I continue to run Tor & I am online. Any explanation/advice would be appreciated. Regards, Stephen

Re: Server Status 'offline' was Re: problems setting up a relay node on win XP

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen
ll is now well here! Thanks again for the help! Regards, Stephen Hey Stephen, Have you looked into Tor's logs for any error messages? I believe you can access Tor's logs through the Vidalia interface. Some guesses: - If you're running a Tor node with a dynamic IP, you should ch

Server Status 'offline' was Re: problems setting up a relay node on win XP

2007-02-12 Thread Stephen
any advice on what I can do to resolve this? The vidalia bandwidth log indicates that some bandwidth has been used during this time (around 70MB) a small portion of which might have come from utilising tor as a client (I've used Tor as a client only very briefly during the last 24hrs). Regards, Stephen

Re: problems setting up a relay node on win XP

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen
rvers list. Thanks again for taking the time to help! Regards, Stephen > My advice is to open incoming port 9001 at your hardware firewall. > > An account with dyndns is not needed. You do not need a fixed DNS name > -- as far as I can tell, tor doesn't need any of that. My system >

problems setting up a relay node on win XP

2007-02-10 Thread Stephen
e with the vidalia console sufficient? The settings I've made on the vidalia server settings console remain commented-out on the Torrc file. Any help would be greatly appreciated & I aplogise again if my lack of knowledge seems retarded! Regards, Stephen

problems setting up a relay node on win XP

2007-02-10 Thread Stephen
e with the vidalia console sufficient? The settings I've made on the vidalia server settings console remain commented-out on the Torrc file. Any help would be greatly appreciated & I aplogise again if my lack of knowledge seems retarded! Regards, Stephen

Re: Analyzing TOR-exitnodes for anomalies

2006-10-06 Thread Stephen
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Re: Tor appliance

2006-09-16 Thread Stephen Hildrey
things with an XScale chip running at 133/266MHz and 32MB of RAM - but it's more than capable of running Tor in client mode (this is what I assume you mean by proxy). Cheers, Steve - -- Stephen Hildrey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP: http://uptime.org.uk/pgpkeys/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]