Hello.
In reading: Configuring Hidden Services for Tor I came upon this in Step Three:
More advanced tips.
"If your computer isn't online all the time, your hidden service won't be
either. This leaks information to an observant adversary."
Does it leak because it is online all the time or be
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From: Theodore Bagwell
To: or-t...@seul.org
Sent: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 9:19 am
Subject: Anonymity easily thwarted by flooding network with relays?
Some of you may be aware of the paper,"Cyber Crime Scene Investigations
C2SI) through Cloud Computing"
http://www.cs.um
hi
Can someone tell me exactly what is the apparatus that resolves an onion URL?
Is it a server that holds all the onion addresses, a software or what?
Thanks
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Now, what about exiting Hidden Services and then exiting the internet
connection? Are those in 3's and is there way to exit the internet that is safe
and a way that isn't recommended?
> Always wondered about that. Once backing out of the Tor network, what is
revealed? Is my real IP address
Hello to all.
I use the Tor Browser Bundle on a USB as I can only access the internet from
cafes in the country in which I live. Using a proxy is now illegal here.
I have several questions.
I know that Tor uses three (3) hops once it has accessed the internet. If I
use Tor to connect to the
Hello.
I'm reposting this.
I've used Tor since 2005. Started with Mac and virtually no problems as long as
I use it out of the box. Of course, I have since learned only a little bit
more, like configuring Firefox, disabling plug-ins and keeping out extensions.
I did try NoScript for a while a
-Original Message-
From: Justin Aplin
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 10:31 pm
Subject: Re: Tor Bundle vs. Vidalia Bundle
On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:14 AM, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote:
hi.
What is the difference between a Vidalia Bundle and a Tor Bun
hi.
What is the difference between a Vidalia Bundle and a Tor Bundle, other than
what I perceive as the obvious?
One without the other? I thought they had to work together.
Oh, this learning curve!!! Infinity is just a mirror image of eternity. There's
no place to go in a mirror.
Hello all.
I've used Tor since 2005. Started with Mac and virtually no problems as long as
I use it out of the box. Of course, I have since learned only a little bit
more, like configuring Firefox, disabling plug-ins and keeping out extensions.
I did try NoScript for a while and didn't like it
I always have to look in the mirror to see what I am doing. It is so easy to
point fingers at others when I can only walk in my shoes. That being said, I
truly believe the authoritarians need to be looked at with more suspicion than
anyone else mentioned in this post, like CP people, bombs, terr
Hello.
If I use Tor onthe Spider's Web I was cautioned that I need to take measures to
encrypt it. So,using the Tor Browser Bundle from a USB volume, how does one go
aboutencrypting? And what does one encrypt?
The first questionI had that was answered was that I could simply look at the
U
-Original Message-
From: Runa A. Sandvik
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Thu, Jun 24, 2010 3:52 pm
Subject: Re: Using HTTPS
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, wrote:
> How does one do this? Do I simply look in the URL bar and add an "s" if it
> is missing. And, I too am s
Hi.
If NoScript is so important, then why doesn't it come in the Windows bundle for
use with a USB?
My limited understanding is that this is sort of a complete package, with
configurations set to enhance and protect the user client. Now, perhaps that
only applies to use in the Tor network, i.e
HOW?dy.
Justin Aplin wrote: However*, as the documentation says repeatedly, use HTTPS
wherever possible, *especially* when communicating sensitive information that
could lead back to you.
How does one do this? Do I simply look in the URL bar and add an "s" if it is
missing. And, I too am sor
-Original Message-
From: and...@torproject.org
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 3:45 am
Subject: Re: Latest Tor bundle
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:47:07AM -0400, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote 6.0K
bytes in 206 lines about:
: warning 2 unknown, 7 missing k
-Original Message-
From: Tom Hek
To:
Sent: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 11:03 pm
Subject: Re: Latest Tor bundle
On 6 jun 2010, at 17:47,
wrote:
> Hello.
> Just extracted the bundle for a USB drive, 1.36.
> In my message log I found this. Can anyone tell me what it means, ple
Hello.
Just extracted the bundle for a USB drive, 1.36.
In my message log I found this. Can anyone tell me what it means, please?
warning 2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad, 0no signature, 4 required
Also, when I first ran it Google gave me a captcha and I think I've read about
that
Hellol
I just extracted the new Tor bundle browser for Windows, v 1.3.5
Running it for the first time from a USB, Vidalia connected and then I waited a
few seconds for Firefox
to open. It did, Torbutton enabled, but this message came with it:
An Add-on was added: AVG Safe Guard 9.0.0.812
I dis
-Original Message-
From: zzzjethro...@email2me.net
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 1:54 pm
Subject: Tor configs
Just a repost to see if I get any answers.
Hello.
I don't remember who originally sent me the link to cross check config settings
for Firefox
Hello.
I don't remember who originally sent me the link to cross check config settings
for Firefox with Tor.
I have been doing that cross checking fort my Mac, and noticed these two that
are not there.
They are as follows:
I have -network.http.sendRefererHeader "0" and
-Original Message-
From: Hanspeter Spalinger
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox configurations for tor with Mac ppc
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Am 22.04.10 09:05, schrieb zzzjethro...@email2me.net:
> Hi and th
-Original Message-
From: Hanspeter Spalinger
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 6:37 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox configurations for tor with Mac ppc
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Am 21.04.10 02:53, schrieb zzzjethro...@email2me.net:
> Here's a
-Original Message-
From: Jim
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 1:39 am
Subject: Re: Firefox configurations for tor with Mac ppc
zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote:
> Here are a few configs (firefox-windows vs. mac), that are different and
> I'm wondering if
Hello.
Trying this message again for the third time. Hope nothing more goes wrong.
Here are a few configs (firefox-windows vs. mac), that are different and I'm
wondering if I should change them?
Also, I've added one that uses numbers for the "value" as an example of five
configurations that di
Hello Andrew.
So, I was just ready to post 20 configurations that are different on my Mac
than those from the link you originally sent me.
(I found it :)) Most everything else is the same.
Should I change those on my Mac to be the same as those in Windows?
(Configurations for Tor/Firefox b
Hello.
Around the first of the year I asked about FF configurations, with Tor, for
Mac, Power PC.
I was given a link to a site that had the Firefox settings used by Tor.
I have been slowly checking each one to see how they compare with the settings
I have for my Mac, ppc.
I came to one that re
Hello.
Yes I do and thanks for that.
-Original Message-
From: and...@torproject.org
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 10:49 am
Subject: Re: MacFUSE
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:33:24PM -0400, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote 2.6K
bytes in 74 lines about:
: Tor w
Hi.
This is just a follow up on a question I had asked.
On March 20, 2010 I asked a question about a volume (MacFUSE), that showed up
in my
System Preferences window. (Mac OS X 10.5.2)
I deleted the volume and its preferences but True Crypt won't work.
I reinstalled the latest version of True
Hello
Thanks. This brings up a couple of questions. One, The Onion Router.doc
recommends against choosing one's exit nodes. Is your recommendation I exclude
these naughty exit nodes, that are determined as such by Tor authorities?
The .doc (Section 4.9--Can I control what nodes I use for entry
Hello
When you add the exit PrivacyNow to "your" ExcludeExitNodes list, is this done
automatically inside of the Tor program afterwards, for any or all clients, or
is this something I need to do also do in my torrc file?
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Scott Bennett
To: or-
Hello.
I get the same message with that version (Torv0.2.1.25),on Mac OS 10.5.2 ppc
What I've written below is also new to my Tor experience:
Vidalia connects very quickly for me,which is strange since the country in
which I live, the internet is slow,spotty and connections can be short, ev
thanks a lot
-Original Message-
From: Micah Lee
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 2:01 am
Subject: Re: Strange problem
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, wrote:
> I know that Google is somehow involved with Tor though I don't understand it
> much at all. Just
hi
Okay thank you. I will try and find what it was.
thanks
-Original Message-
From: and...@torproject.org
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sat, Mar 20, 2010 9:50 pm
Subject: Re: Strange problem
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0400, zzzjethro...@email2me.net wrote 5.5K
b
Hello.
I'm not sure if this belongs here and if anyone feels it doesn't then just let
me know, but I have something interesting, at least to me. and my searching has
led to this:
I know that Google is somehow involved with Tor though I don't understand it
much at all. Just that it can show up
Hi.
Okay thanks. that is in fact what I am trying to do.
-Original Message-
From: Christian Fromme
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 12:13 am
Subject: Re: verifying signatures
Hello,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, wrote:
> So, at the risk perhaps, of so
Hello again.
Don't mean to beat a dead horse but I still am lost. My latest version of Tor
(for Mac ppc) is the latest and I noticed that in the Vidalia settings window,
there are many words, Vidalia being one of them, that are missing letters, as
so, ...dalia
or ..lipo or ...oxy. In some c
Hi. Just checking back again before going off line.
Make sure you get the
correct .asc file for the version that you downloaded.
Yeah, I know. Just don't know how to get through the procedure. simple huh?
-Original Message-
From: zzzjethro...@email2me.net
To: or-talk@
HI.
I went to the Torproject download page and checked those .sig links and got two
PGP signatures. One for Mac ppc and one for the Windows IM Browser Bundle. But,
I still don't know what to do with them.
I also, just tried again to download a version of GNuPG for my Mac but I have a
lot of
Hi. Whew!
Well I did find Vidalia in my home Library.
These are the three files there:
geoip-cache
torrc
vidalia.conf
They are all plain text files. The torrc file has zero kb, nothing in/on it.
The geoip-cache list is not something I am familiar with nor understand
The vidalia.conf file has
Thank you very much. I will try and walk through this slowly.
-Original Message-
From: Christian Fromme
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 8:13 pm
Subject: Re: Verifying signatures
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:41 PM, wrote:
> At the Torproject site, the d
Hello.
I've just gone through the or-talk archives from August 2004 to the present,
March 2010 and I cannot see anymore. I found a couple of threads on verifying
signatures. One led back to the Torproject web page and leaves me lost again.
The other involved using something called ASDF-Insta
Hi.
When I click onVidalia/Tor to connect, I usually watch the message log as it
does so. In thepast, it would go through all the handshakes, etc. lots of
information andsuch, etc. but now or maybe just lately, it connects rather
quickly and themessage log only lists this:
Notice Tor v0.
Thank you very much.
-Original Message-
From: downie -
To: Or-talk
Sent: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 10:22 am
Subject: RE: Polipo automatic?
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Subject: Polipo automatic?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:50:23 -0500
From: zzzjethro...@email2me.net
Hi.
Just read a p
Hi.
Just read a post made me think of this:
On Mac 10.5.2, with the Vidalia/Bundle, does Polipo automatically run after
starting Vidalia or do I have to start it separately? I think it's now Polipo
rather than Privoxy for v 0.2.1.24-0.2.7?
thanks
Thanks very much. I'll check that out.
regards
-Original Message-
From: Irratar
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 4:17 pm
Subject: Re: FF updates and add-ons and others minor problems
Sorry! Of course, I wanted to write "Disable UPDATES during Tor usage"
201
Hello.
I'm posting part of my question from a couple of days ago because with it I
noticed my clock was supposedly off, according to the message log.
However, it is set to automatically set or adjust to the time zone I am in.
Just wondering if the above and what's below are related and if
Hello.
Is this normal? Does anyone know about this or has had it happen to them?
Firefox started installing version 3.0.18 (I was running 3.0.17), on my Mac
(10.5.2), while I was in Hidden Services waiting for Onion Forum to open.
It caught me by surprise and finished the install but then an
hi.
Perhaps you are right. I don't think I did read the entire thread and this is a
trial-and-error method of learning for me.
Regards.
-Original Message-
From: Marcin Kowalczyk
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 3:24 pm
Subject: Re: Tor documentation
> Someone wan
HI.
Thanks. Yes I am aware that much in Onion land cannot be trusted and everything
should most likely be checked out as best one can. I will look at that log.
Thanks.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Dingledine
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 12:22 pm
Subject: Re:
Hope this doesn't rankle anyone's last nerve but I found this on the Onion
Forum last night and am wondering how to verify it?
I can just ask here, "does anyone know if this is true or not and what it might
mean to someone's anonymity regarding Tor, and the clients trust of Tor?
I suppose thi
Hi.
I don't really need to edit torrc at all. I wanted to gather more information
in the form of educating myself on "how to do" such a thing. I have never
really had any problems with Tor and one of the developers told me "tweaking
it" lends itself to problems. I just want to learn more. Ther
Hello.
I have wanted to understand more about these Vidalia/Tor torrc files and just
how and where one "edits them." In other words what do I write, where and in
what manner?
I keep following or-talk in the hopes I will glean something from what is
posted and I think I am still visualizing th
HI.
Thanks very much. I will stumble around with that for awhile.
Regards.
-Original Message-
From: Runa Sandvik
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 7:31 pm
Subject: Re: Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 5%
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:23 PM, wrote:
> Hello.
Hi,
Hello.
Can someone please explain this to me in a way I might be able to follow it? I
am not very savvy, I admit but I need something more clear in its detail as to
exactly what do I do.
"On OS X, if you use Vidalia, edit ~/.vidalia/torrc, otherwise open your
favorite text editor and load /Lib
I would like to see Tor stay 3 hops for the purpose intended. As time passes,
the developers will make it faster.
Do nothing that will compromise anonymity.
Anonymity is on a precipice and needs to be kept from being pushed or dragged
over. Something big is going to happen and much is already
How does one, or rather I, do this switch on my Mac 10.5.2 ppc?
Thanks and should I?
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Lewman
To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Sent: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 8:32 am
Subject: Re: why polipo?
On 02/15/2010 12:09 PM, Michael Gomboc wrote:
> Why is polipo used a
I just downloaded the new Vidalia/Tor bundle for Mac 10.5.2 ppc.
This version of Tor is 0.2.1.23-0.2.7
I am using Firefox 3.0.17. Is this a good safe Firefox for this version of
Tor?
thanX
Hello.
I'm trying this again. Not really sure if it showed up the first time. Haven't
had a response on any of it.
I was wondering if I listed a number of Firefox configuration changes Ihave
made, would those much more qualified than I peruse them and letme know if they
are sound (for better a
Hello.
I was wondering if I listed a number of Firefox configuration changes I have
made, would those much more qualified than I peruse them and let me know if
they are sound (for better anonymity) or not (risk my anonymity)?
I am using the Vidalia/Tor bundle for Mac OS 10.5.2, I guess on a Un
Hello.
I'm on Mac OS 10.5.2 with the latest Tor/Vidalia bundle for ppc.
What version of Firefox is the best to use now? Currently my version is
3.0.11.
Also, do the Tor developers also upgrade the Firefox browser in the IM Browser
Bundle?
Thanks
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