Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-11 Thread W
Have you guys thought organizing a (very) public Kickstarter.com project for the purpose of raising the funds and creating awareness of need? .w On May 10, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment, 25% of all traffic exits through Blutmagie (thanks > Ola

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
for more exit notes, statistics, and some kind of visualization of what the impact would be for a given amount donated? And make it beautiful and simple, like this: http://www.charitywater.org/donate/ .w On May 12, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > I first planned to offer a certain band

How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread W
Is there a "torify" equivalent for Mac OS X, or does Torify work on that platform... And if so, can it wrap GUI applications as well? Asking because I'd like certain applications on my system without individual proxy settings to use Tor, and certain apps of the same clas

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
Well, assuming that it is only a technically-minded userbase that installs Tor, then maybe! Do you guys have any sense of whether or not that's actually true? .w On May 13, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Martin Fick wrote: > I would think that the slowness of the network would be > reminder

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-13 Thread W
re heavily congested. Click here to help . . . " would have a beneficial impact. All this being said, I completely understand, even even fully empathize with your reaction. I would never want to see Tor be packaged with crapware! .w On May 13, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Jon wrote: > I can not spe

Re: How to "wrap" applications in Mac OS X?

2010-05-13 Thread W
ainstream the conceptual direction could perhaps be at least mildly useful? .w On May 14, 2010, at 12:59 AM, and...@torproject.org wrote: > If by GUI applications you mean native OS X carbon/cocoa apps, unlikely > un

Re: Help translate Orbot

2010-05-15 Thread W
Wow Runa, while I unfortunately can't help with any translations, I just want to say that that app looks wonderful and wish you the best of luck with it. Wish I had something like that on my iPhone! .w On May 15, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: > As many of you probably k

Traffic shaping?

2010-05-15 Thread W
Does Tor do any kind of traffic shaping? .w *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/

Preventing 502s?

2010-05-15 Thread W
Hi all, I am getting a lot of these messages lately -- how can I increase the wait time? 502 Server dropped connection The following error occurred while trying to access http://xxx 502 Server dropped connection Generated Sat, 15 May 2010 19:37:54 EDT by Polipo on xxx.local:8118. .w

Re: Traffic shaping?

2010-05-15 Thread W
In this case, purposely 'shaping' the traffic so that it looks like something other than what it actually is (ie, not Tor traffic). .w On May 15, 2010, at 11:18 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: > What do you mean by tr

Re: Help translate Orbot

2010-05-16 Thread w
background process affect battery life? .w On May 16, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Marco Bonetti wrote: > Don't worry: I'm working on it :-P > See http://sid77.slackware.it/iphone/ *** To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Tor on the iPhone

2010-05-16 Thread w
Interesting. Well, I ask this one because I've always found that my battery drains the fastest when using the 3G or EDGE connection. Significantly faster than playing an intensive 3D game, even... .w On May 16, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Marco Bonetti wrote: > Backgrounding itself is co

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Websites blocked by political stripes for Marines in Iraq?]]

2006-03-07 Thread Christopher W.
"How can we avoid discussing politics when it seems to intrude everywhere?" That's the pernicious part of politics. As long as which ever group is in power has the ability to give goodies to whom they want, it'll keep up. Not just money, either...many lobby's aren't seeking money, but having

Re: TorPark mentioned on BoingBoing

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher W.
Geoffrey Goodell said the following on 5/10/2006 7:24 AM: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:23:05AM -0400, Geoffrey Goodell wrote: The site may crash, change location, or creash. I don't know what 'creash' is, but it sounds really bad. :) Geoff a creash is what happens when a cra

ISP Policies

2006-05-11 Thread Christopher W.
site thats passing them on...get in touch with me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Seems silly to have 100 of the things, and no takers. Again...thank you all for the education & hard work (I know from my limited experience that coding is tedious). And thanks for believing in individuals. Christopher W.

Re: ISP Policies

2006-05-12 Thread Christopher W.
hanks again, all.   On 5/11/06, Christopher W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hello,everyone First, thanks to everyone who contributes to this list, to the development of Tor, the TorCP, Vidalia, and if any of the authors of Privoxy are around, those fine folks. I've

tor+torbutton without privoxy doesn't work

2006-06-01 Thread Tymek W
hi, I had installed Tor+Privoxy on my Mac, but Privoxy started pissing me off. I uninstalled Privoxy and Firefox with Tor didn't work - I got the "The proxy server is refusing connections" error. I uninstalled whole pack, restarted my computer, installed only Tor and Tor-startup package, updated T

Re: tor+torbutton without privoxy doesn't work

2006-06-01 Thread Tymek W
Audie Murphy wrote: > How did you do the uninstall? > > > First I just uninstalled Privoxy with uninstall.command bash script, but it didn't worked - there still was the error. Secondly I tried uninstall.AppleScript script but I got an error "Too many errors" that told me that uninstallation

Re: tor+torbutton without privoxy doesn't work

2006-06-01 Thread Tymek W
Roger Dingledine wrote: > It is possible, but I've found it harder to explain to people how to do > it, so we simply recommend using Privoxy. If you want to take Privoxy > out of the loop, check out: > http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-switchproxy.html > http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ > http://www.imperia

tor+torbutton without privoxy doesn't work

2006-06-05 Thread Tymek W
hi, I had installed Tor+Privoxy on my Mac, but Privoxy started pissing me off. I uninstalled Privoxy and Firefox with Tor didn't work - I got the "The proxy server is refusing connections" error. I uninstalled whole pack, restarted my computer, installed only Tor and Tor-startup package, updated T

Re: Building tracking system to nab Tor pedophiles

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
OK, we heard a lot of technical details, I'll cover the non-tech part of it. On 3/7/07, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Comments? Yes, it's stupid. First, the legal issues. What he does is overtaking a TOR-user's machine by malicious code. He's accusing people of being childporn consuments

Re: Building tracking system to nab Tor pedophiles

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 3/7/07, Nick Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] and fangirls reading harry/ron slashfic online. The picture! It's burning into my brain-patterns! ARGH! Cheers, Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the

Re: Security Focus story

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 3/9/07, James Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11447 A quote which worries me: "Tor servers meet the definition of an Internet service provider, which means that operators are not required to know what data passed through the server, said Kevin Bankston, staf

Re: Security Focus story

2007-03-09 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 3/9/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:37:58AM +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: > If TOR would legally qualify as an ISP, we're in deep trouble. We don't provide access to the Internet, and we're not charging for it. Last time I l

Re: Tor server crashes on a Linksys WRT54GL

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Well what you could do is remote-debugging. Follow instructions to build gdb-sever for OpenWRT: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29712 Install gdb-server Run gdb-server on your WRT: # gdb-server $ip:12345 /path/to/tor $myoptions (Tor won't start immediately but will wait for a "cont"

Re: Is this for real?

2007-03-31 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 3/31/07, Karsten Loesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But who knows? Perhaps they have multiple strategies? :) Sorry, I can't help myself, but I'm tempted to rename my node to something intriguing just for the fun of it. "Fear and Loathing in Fort Meade" :) Names mean nothing. Karsten Ale

Re: LiveCD For Testing

2007-04-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi all, since the tracker Robert used went down, I set up a tracker elsewhere. The torrent Metafile can be accessed at http://yalla.ynfonatic.de/media/TorLiveCD-TestingOnly.iso.torrent The md5sum of the ISO is 0843b24fb08edf6e0ef64f82083e041b and it would be good if Robert could confirm that. I

Re: Another Method to Block Java Hijinks

2007-04-05 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 4/5/07, James Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You may be interested to know that there is a Live CD which bundles Tor and some ipchains rules. It is mentioned in the Tor FAQ -- see "Virtual Privacy Machine": Actually Robert Hogan hacked together a Live-CD. Torrent here: http://yalla.ynfonat

To the operator of the node "AoF"

2007-04-25 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
OK, that's half off-topic, sorry for that. To the operator of the node "AoF": You didn't give any contact-info, so I try to reach you on this way: Your node doesn't seem to work very well, the squid-proxy you're using ran out of sockets. If you try to use your node, you'll always end up with the

Re: Tor Server Behind Reactive Firewall

2007-05-18 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 5/19/07, Rouslan Nabioullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Will a reactive firewall affect a middle-node Tor server? I am planning to use a Smoothwall Linux firewall with the reactive mod (http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8206). Well, what does "reactive" mean? I just had a

Re: Wanted feature / option

2007-05-30 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 5/30/07, Kyle Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was testing a spam-reply script and or-talk@freehaven.net got into it somehow. My bad, sorry. YMMD :-) Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few ye

What happens when I shut down my Tor-server?

2007-07-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi, for maintenance-reasons I had to shut down my server today. However, after shutting down the server I realized that there's still much traffic, although shutdown was 30 minutes ago. So, does the server tell it's peers that it's going down? Does it deregister? Or is that stray-traffic? Cheer

Re: What happens when I shut down my Tor-server?

2007-07-17 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
OK, thanks for all your answer, I was a bit busy lately. On 7/14/07, Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Skipping your questions, I pose the following ones. 1) Which signal did you send tor to get it to shut down? SIGINT 2) If SIGINT, had ShutdownDelay seconds passed wit

Re: Proposal of a new hidden wiki

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 8/7/07, Frozen Flame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, guys. Hi! > Is anyone interested on the return of the hidden wiki? Fire at will. Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is tim

Re: [german] Suche Strafrechtler (Vorwurf: Verbreitung KiPo)

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
The interesting part in english: 1) The state filed two cases against me. There are ongoing investigations for multiple accusations. 2) I'm OK. 3) I have a competent lawyer. 4) I've shut down my server "wormhole" to protect my family. 5) Don't gossip. I'll break the news when I know I'll be safe.

Re: [german] Suche Strafrechtler (Vorwurf: Verbreitung KiPo)

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hallo! (german - sorry) On 9/8/07, TOR Admin (gpfTOR1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "wormhole" ist bereits offline und braucht evtl. Hilfe Ich will hier einmal proaktiv ein paar Informationen abgeben, um Gerüchten, Spekulationen und der allgemeinen Paranoia zuvorzukommen: 1) Ja, gegen mich wird

Re: What do you think about this exit policy for germany?

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Just one contra: "Supporting $some_crime" always means that you knew about that certain case they're suing you about. Since you can only know about something if you start sniffing - which is strictly forbidden - you can't possibly know about a direct certain crime. Unless you were it yourself, usi

I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi all, I made some dubious comments recently about ongoing investigations against me. Today I got a letter from the lawyer of the state telling me that I'm not longer a suspect. Hereby I break my silence: http://itnomad.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/tor-madness-reloaded/ Thanks for all the people wh

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/16/07, Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://itnomad.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/tor-madness-reloaded/ > Alex, perhaps you or somebody could put up a web page, in German, that > explains in simple terms what Tor is about, aimed at explaining to the > average German police offic

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/16/07, Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Actually what'd be more useful would be something like a tag in the > >whois-database... But the average copper would probably either ignore > >or not understand it :-( > > > Um...and that would be more useful how? I thought the suggesti

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/16/07, Ryan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's still the possibility that a server op is using their Tor node > as a scapegoat and really is doing bad things (I don't mean to imply > that's the case here). Even if the police know that their suspect is > running a Tor node, what Tor is

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/16/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way that people can donate to help cover your legal fees? > I'll commit to one US dollar. If half the people who read this message > did that, it would at least take a small chunk out of that mountain of > legal fees you're facing.

Re: I break the silence: My arrest

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/16/07, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you set up a paypal account I would be willing to donate on a > case-by-case basis (in this case, it would be to help with your legal > fees). I think even if you don't need help with legal fees by > receiving donations from all across the wo

Re: Arrested/surveillance/etc Tor-operators (was: [Fwd: Re: I break the silence: My arrest])

2007-09-18 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi! On 9/18/07, xiando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A question to all Tor-operators: > > I'd like to do a survey about all incidents which happened to > > operators. Stuff like: > > > > * arrested > > * confiscated equippment > > * nastygram > > * surveillance > > * ... > > > > What would be pos

Re: About HTTP 1.1 Cache

2007-09-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
The easiest solution would be just using different browser-profiles and run them simultaneously. One for Tor, one for everything else. Cheers, Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/21/07, Arrakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, quick question. > > If I have Tor process running, and request a url that has 10 images to > load from the same domain, do all the requests go through the same > circuit, or does the tor process split up the requests across all the > circui

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/21/07, Arrakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Tor care about the destination of the TCP request, when deciding to > make a new circuit, and thus will use one because it is already dirtied > by that domain? s/domain/IP-address ? However, that's all up to the implementation of the internal

Re: Load Balancing

2007-09-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/21/07, Nick Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short answer: Tor tries to group many streams on a single circuit. If > we didn't, that would be way too much PK. Means, if the browser opens up 6 instances to grab stuff from a site, Tor consolidates all requests into a single circuit? Mak

Re: dns_cancel_pending_resolve() message

2007-09-29 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 9/29/07, Watson Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > English is not easy, nor is it a lingua franca. Everybody knows that Elbonian is the lingua franca in IT. > Watson Ladd Scnr, Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing

Re: Tor Defcon Talks

2007-10-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 10/15/07, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't intend to troll... but wouldn't be ..er better if playing the > videos didn't require using Flash? My mplayer plays downloaded Flash-videos just fine. Alex. -- "I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have

Re: The Observer - "Ten ways to thwart Big Brother"

2007-10-30 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 10/30/07, Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Dave Page wrote: > > > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2200579,00.html > > Mentions xB browser for anonymous browsing. > > and how is this Tor related? xB is the new name for Torpark. http://sup

Re: no traffic?

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/07, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, Hi! > In my mrtg graphs I see fair traffic until april, then less traffic > until august and after august it is 2xx bytes/s in average with almost > no peaks. > Why is the traffic like it is? No idea.

Re: no traffic?

2007-11-03 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 11/3/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > Alexander W. Janssen wrote: > >>> no peaks. > >>> Why is the traffic like it is? > >> No idea. Did you ever update/restart your Tor-server? > >&g

Re: court trial against me - the outcome

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi Mirko, that sounds... disastrous. I'm facing the same thing at the moment, a quite similar case - although my lawyer currently tries to fight off an actual case at court, pointing out all the other incidents I suffered of earlier. This stinks. "Beihilfe" my a**. BTW, I'm currently reading htt

Re: court trial against me -

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 21:22 +0100 schrieb TOR Admin (gpfTOR1): > Hi Mirko, > > 1: by German law a Tor node admin is something like an access provider. > You are not responsible for your traffic. If the court have only an IP > address and you have a tor status log, they have nothing. I'd po

Re: News orgs should be interested in running tor nodes

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 22:48 +0100 schrieb Thomas Hluchnik: > Has anyone ever tried to speak with the guys from SPIEGEL, FAZ, Sueddeutsche > and so on that they drive own tor nodes? This would be good PR for tor. Hm, not me, althoug I know that some journalist organisations were thinking ab

German Tor Legal Fund

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
This is to all german Tor-operators about the possibilty to found a german Tor legal fund. In german. Obviously. Hallo Kameraden, so langsam wird es Zeit. Ich hatte selber schon drei Verfahren gegen mich, die mich jetzt schon viele hundert Euro an Anwaltsrechnung kosten. Heute habe ich von jemand

Re: German Tor Legal Fund

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 00:58 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, Hi! > > Warum nicht einen Verein gründen? Spenden annehmen. Anwälte bezahlen. > > Operator raushauen. So etwas gibt es in Deutschland noch nicht. Aber es > > wird Zeit, dass wir so etwas bekommen. > > Das verstehe ich je

Re: German Tor Legal Fund

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 01:19 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > > Nicht, dass ich wüsste. Soweit ich weiss, will sich die Pricacy > > Foundation auf Lobbyarbeit beschränken. Das ist zumindestens mein > > letzter Kenntnisstand. > > Ich habe das zur Sprache gebracht, weil *jeder*, d

Re: German Tor Legal Fund

2007-11-14 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 01:19 +0100 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [... Privacy Foundation ...] Ich habe gerade eine Anfrage an die Privacy Foundation geschickt und sie gebeten, mir zur erklären, was folgender Passus[1] bedeutet: "In Ausnahmefällen bietet die German Privacy Foundation e.V. a

Evaluating exsisting resources, pondering about new organisations [was: German Tor Legal Fund]

2007-11-19 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ringo Kamens schrieb: > I pledge $10 if the fund starts. Please allow mail donations. > Hopefully others can also pledge. > Comrade Ringo Kamens Thanks Ringo, we appreciate that. On another note: I'm currently reading all the emails and submissions I

Re: Tor blocking german nodes

2007-11-24 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew wrote: > Actually, it might be wise to develop a feature that lets the client > choose no more than one node from _any_ country, since other EU > countries might use the directive that led to the german law, to pass > similar laws. Which means,

Re: Tor blocking german nodes

2007-11-24 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Senftleben wrote: > Am Samstag, 24. November 2007 schrieb Alexander W. Janssen: >> Andrew wrote: >> 'Nuff said. Let's stop the nay saying ;) The law isn't active yet. >> The law isn't even ratified. A

Re: German Tor Legal Fund

2007-11-28 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Onion wrote: > That's why I'd also prefer a name covering all facets of OR like > 'Deutsche Anonymisierserver Initiative - DASI gegen Stasi', with > equivalent shorthand expressions ('British [...] Anonymisation Server > Initiative' = 'BASI') easy to a

Re: Help me understand tor with SSL?

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Firefox should in principle not use the DNS if > > network.proxy.socks_remote_dns > > is set to true (in about:config). Hm, I'm not sure - I thought this option only works if you're using a SOCKS-proxy, e.g. connecting

Re: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I was in your position I might consider putting some bulk > demagnetizers near my hard drives with a panic switch, with backups to a > secure unknown location. Now this is definitively a bizarre idea... :-) That reminds

Re: [Political/Legal] Passing ideas on German Tor nodes

2007-12-02 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 F. Fox wrote: > However, let's suppose that we're in a time when German Tor nodes are > now actively keeping logs of all connections. What would be the best way to: As I already said in an earlier posting, German Tor nodes won't be starting logging be

Re: storage privacy (was: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??)

2007-12-04 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Judge: "Ok you are to be held in contempt and in jail xyz, until such > time as you give us the pass phrase to your data" Only a matter of the UK at the moment. Bad enough though. > Most data overwrite programs take too l

Re: storage privacy (was: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??)

2007-12-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess you can read one persons attack but are blind to others What attack? > And I thought the people on this list were against censorship, unless > they, of course, are doing the censoring. I'm trying to follow the thr

Re: storage privacy

2007-12-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander W. Janssen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I guess you can read one persons attack but are blind to others > > What attack? OK, i swept back through the postings and /dev/ass wasn't nice too. Got that, Eugen?

Re: Encrypted Web Pages?

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Fick wrote: > Yes, but it really is a fairly simple one. I am surprised that HTML > does not seem to have some extension to deal with this already. It > is not much different from encrypted email concepts, just that the > browser needs the abi

Re: Please run a bridge relay! (was Re: Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha is out)

2007-12-24 Thread Brian W. Carver
Trying to run a bridge I get the following error: Starting tor daemon: tor... Dec 24 08:13:15.454 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.14-alpha (r12937). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64) Dec 24 08:13:15.456 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a u

Re: Please run a bridge relay! (was Re: Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha is out)

2007-12-24 Thread Brian W. Carver
> Brian wrote: >> I sort of understand what the error is saying but I don't know how to >> fix >> it. Suggestions? > http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2007/msg00284.html ;-) > > - -- > Marco Bonetti Ah, thanks. Now tor started without error. But, how can I tell if the bridge is working? The

Spam Feedback [was: [ANNOUNCE] Tor-UPNP. Need feedback.]

2007-12-28 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ringo Kamens schrieb: > Just so you know, gmail filtered this as spam. Not for my gmail-account though... > Comrade Ringo Kamens Alex. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBR3S4dBYlVVSQ3uFxAQJmjwQAwW7Q66EhlSHbFhkh6

Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian D. wrote: > Hi folks, > I like the TOR project and want to participate. My question: Is it a > good idea to set up a server, which is not connected to the internet > contineously? -- i.e. I turn on my computer, when I come home from > work and

Re: Is there something similar like "Torbutton" FF plugin for the Internet Explorer ?

2007-12-31 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Stover schrieb: > Is there something similar like "Torbutton" FF plugin for the > Internet Explorer ? A quick check on Google revealed: http://www.geocities.com/claudias_za/ http://swodum.com/ Not sure if any of those are any good though. If you

Re: Google becomes usefull for us again

2008-01-01 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 F. Fox schrieb: > [I was going to leave your quoted message in... but my Lord, is your > monitor as wide as a football field?! =xoD ] Since you're using Icedove, a little hint: If you go to the "Edit"-menu, you'll find a nice "rewrap message" function

Re: Google becomes usefull for us again

2008-01-01 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 F. Fox schrieb: > Alexander W. Janssen wrote: >> F. Fox schrieb: >>> [I was going to leave your quoted message in... but my Lord, is your >>> monitor as wide as a football field?! =xoD ] >> Since you're using Ic

Re: TLS errors

2008-01-02 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans Schnehl wrote: > Hi, Hi! > Jan 02 12:46:06.204 [debug] TLS error: > (errno=54: Connection reset by peer) Jan 02 12:46:06.204 [info] > connection_read_to_buf(): tls error [connection reset]. breaking > (nickname NoNickNode, address 111.112.113.1

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ringo Kamens wrote: > This is certainly not adviseable because of the lack of security built > into windows and the possible backdoors. I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the

Re: Tor server using Vista?

2008-01-04 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:09:16PM +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: > >> I ain't no Windows-advocate but I find this argument a bit weak. >> Nowadays all the modern operating systems have the same

Re: What to do at IP number change?

2008-01-07 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett schrieb: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:55:36 +0100 Tom Hek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>> i'm changing my public IP number ten times per day and to avoid >>> confusion, > > *Ten times per day?* Please tell us again why it is

Re: shinjiru closed exit node acceptnolimits

2008-01-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 accept no limits schrieb: > Now the server has new IPs and this exit node will soon be back. Congratulations! > Bye > accept no limits Alex. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBR4OxdRYlVVSQ3uFxAQL7EgQAqQUPYZLGz

Re: Why is TorButton and not FoxyProxy so much supported by the tor project?

2008-01-09 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kazaam schrieb: > Hi, I myself am using the foxyproxy plugin and not torbutton. With > foxyproxy I simply make a blacklistrule which routes evertyhing > through tor and only whitelist pages I'm really trusting. > > With TorButton I see many problems:

Re: unusual connection activity?

2008-01-24 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [...snip...] A bit of quoting[1] would've been nice. It's hard to follow that email. Alex. [1] http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBR5jUqRYlVVSQ3uFxAQJBHwP/bAIPKg9JL

Re: Tor operator raided in Finland

2008-01-29 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett wrote: > In the United States, knowingly giving false information to a federal > law enforcement officer is a felony, so as soon as they found out you had > deceived them, they would likely charge you with that crime. That sounds a

Re: Tor relay shutted down by ISP

2008-02-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Tom Hek schrieb: > Thanks :) My ISP reconnected me again but I had to promise to never run > Tor again. Tomorrow I'm going to call them and try to change their > minds. XS4ALL is a ISP who stands for freedom of speech, they are > against censorship, etc etc. If they knew what Tor was they wouldn't

Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Rochester TOR Admin schrieb: > A few other environment factors: > - my firwall is a pretty old machine with a very slow NIC > - my tor server NIC is very cheap [<$10] > > Could anyone give me some insight about what they think might be going on? I'm not sure... what's a "pretty old machine"? I

Re: TOR slowing down other network services

2008-03-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Oh, and memory might be an issue too. If your machine starts paging and swapping it'll suffer from it. at-sar helps there too. Alex. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Applications Recommended For Use With Tor +++ PROPOSAL, DRAFT +++

2008-05-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Hi all, following up a discussion on #tor I made up a Wiki-article about the abovementioned subject. https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/RecommendedSoftware Abstract: To create a list of "Applications Recommended For Use With Tor" [2]. Those applications must obey the rules of 1) using the proxy

Re: Applications Recommended For Use With Tor +++ PROPOSAL, DRAFT +++

2008-05-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Kyle Williams schrieb: > Hello Alex, Aloha Kyle! > I've already logged into the Wiki and updated the Test Procedures section. > Seeing as I've found lots of IP disclosure vulnerabilities in the past > (and future?), I for one would be more than happy to help with this. Thanks. The whole section

Re: Tor with secure Gmail

2008-06-06 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Man Man schrieb: > Hi! Aloha! > I am using Gmail at https://mail.google.com/ with tor. > > When I am at login, browser will state that the connection is only > partially secure, ie. some items (I do not know what) are not > encrypted. However, once I untor, I am able to get into the fully > secu

Re: Problem w/ Using tor(k) for Geostreaming Live-Videos

2008-06-11 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Works here with torify, though painfully slow. You might chose a stream which uses less bandwidth: $ ./torify mplayer -playlist http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/080609_smm.asx ... STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/06/080609_smm_vh.w

Re: German Fed???

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karsten N. wrote: > Hi, > > I have found this at core.onion (http://eqt5g4fuenphqinx.onion/page/31) > >> gpfTOR1-4: Those are operated by a front end of the German >> Verfassungsschutz. Wtf? :-) > Is it only the paranoia of some individuals or disi

Re: icann opening up of tld's

2008-06-28 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geoff Down wrote: > Presumably any problems could be avoided by changing the pseudo-tld to > something really obscene... .onionporn? SCNR Alex. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iQCVAwUBSGYzuBYlVVSQ3uFxAQJXkgP8DOB4xMsvV3

Re: flash won't work with Tor enabled

2008-09-01 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Kasimir Gabert wrote: > If you really need to access a flash script you could set up CGIProxy > (http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/) to route through Tor, and > then connect to a local CGIProxy proxy with it's settings enabled > for rewriting scripts. This will not, of course, guarantee yo

Re: Fwd: Post Confirmation 807ccc3983b12bd9

2008-09-15 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Jonathan Addington wrote: > Can someone explain why I get this message every time I post? Or > delete whatever email address sends this back to me? You're maybe posting not with the same email-address as you subscribed. > I don't post often, but it is annoying when I do. Maybe it's just that. A

Re: Attempting to connect to nodes in bogon space

2008-09-22 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Arjan wrote: > My tor middle node (0.2.0.31) tries to connect to some bogon IP > addresses and I was wondering why it does that. [... bogons ...] To meet general internet sanity, why not include bogons as blacklisted into the default Tor-policy? I know, "every node counts", but bogons don't. Ale

Re: GnuPG through Tor

2008-10-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
misc wrote: > Is there any way at all to get keys from LDAP server through Tor? LDAP uses TCP, so yes, it should be working if you configure GnuPG to use a proxy. Alex. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: "Praedor Atrebates" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: 20.11.08 21:10:08 An: >> or-talk@freehaven.net Betreff: Problems with irc because of tor? >> Why does running tor suddenly cause me to be unable to connect to >> freenode? I am NOT

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