Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Kraktus wrote: > >> Really, if I'd known my message was going to evoke this sort of response, > > Really, if you want any other sort of response, DON'T SUGGEST IMPLEMENTING > CENSORSHIP HOOKS IN TOR in future. Thanks so much. > Agre

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread tor-operator
Kraktus wrote: Tor already has censorship hooks. Tor nodes are already in control of their own exit policies. Certain ports are already blocked by default. This would simply provide Tor nodes with another tool to control what leaves their nodes. And if Tor nodes didn't want to use it, they w

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Kraktus
On 26/01/2008, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kraktus wrote: >> On 25/01/2008, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Kraktus wrote: On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of > Use your brain. Packets have

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Kraktus
On 26/01/2008, maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some f:ing paedophile is responsible for loosing all my computers and > scaring my better half. Thanks a lot. I am sorry to hear that. > If theres going to be some directory controlled exit-policies then count > me in (if I'm going to ever run

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Kraktus
On 26/01/2008, Dominik Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kraktus schrieb: >> Tor already has censorship hooks. Tor nodes are already in >> control of their own exit policies. Certain ports are already >> blocked by default. > It is (technically and legally) a whole different thing to filter b

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kraktus wrote: > On 25/01/2008, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kraktus wrote: >>> On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of Use your brain. Packets have no EVI

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Dominik Schaefer
Kraktus schrieb: Tor already has censorship hooks. Tor nodes are already in control of their own exit policies. Certain ports are already blocked by default. It is (technically and legally) a whole different thing to filter based on ports or to filter based on content. Content-based filtering

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Jan 26, 2008 4:06 PM, maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some f:ing paedophile is responsible for loosing all my computers and > scaring my better half. Thanks a lot. Some f'ing paedophile is responsible for being a pervert, but the invasion of your home, the home of an innocent person, is

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread maillist
Kraktus wrote: > On 26/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Kraktus wrote: >>> Really, if I'd known my message was going to evoke this sort of response, >> Really, if you want any other sort of response, DON'T SUGGEST IMPLEMENTING >> CENSORS

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Kraktus
On 26/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Kraktus wrote: >> Really, if I'd known my message was going to evoke this sort of response, > > Really, if you want any other sort of response, DON'T SUGGEST IMPLEMENTING > CENSORSHIP HOOKS IN TOR in f

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Kraktus wrote: > Really, if I'd known my message was going to evoke this sort of response, Really, if you want any other sort of response, DON'T SUGGEST IMPLEMENTING CENSORSHIP HOOKS IN TOR in future. Thanks so much. > I'd have entitled it 'Directory-dis

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Jan 26, 2008 12:46 PM, Kraktus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, if I'd known my message was going to evoke this sort of response, > I'd have entitled it 'Directory-distributed variables for exit lists'. It would have been better if you had, but you would have still received a negative respo

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-26 Thread Kraktus
On 25/01/2008, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kraktus wrote: >> On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of >>> Use your brain. Packets have no EVIL bit to test for. >> >> I'm pretty sure my suggestion is better than

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-25 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kraktus wrote: > On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of >> Use your brain. Packets have no EVIL bit to test for. > > I'm pretty sure my suggestion is better than an RFC

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-25 Thread Kraktus
On 25/01/2008, Ben Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can solve all those problems, there might be something to it, but > I personally do not believe that those problems are solvable. > > -Ben 'Defining your problem is half the solution.' No, I can't solve them all right now, but thanks

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-25 Thread Ben Wilhelm
Kraktus wrote: On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of Use your brain. Packets have no EVIL bit to test for. I'm pretty sure my suggestion is better than an RFC April Fools' Joke. Actually, I disagree - the April F

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-25 Thread Kraktus
On 25/01/2008, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of > > Use your brain. Packets have no EVIL bit to test for. I'm pretty sure my suggestion is better than an RFC April Fools' Joke.

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:11:48PM -0500, Kraktus wrote: > My idea of 'freedom of speech' doesn't include the exploitation of > children. What about the freedom of the child to grow up without > being used for sexual purposes? I'm pretty sure your mother is a witch. Say, are you married? Your wi

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:11:48 -0500 Kraktus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 24/01/2008, Paul Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Child Pornography is not the cancer killing Tor. Nor is it bandwidth >> leeches. The cancer killing Tor are the people who want to make it like >> the rest of the in

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gregory Maxwell wrote: (snip) | I'd also argue that the ability of people to use tor to access those | kinds of sites is actually beneficial. It allows private individuals | to seek them out in order to report them with reduced risk of being | mista

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Jan 24, 2008 10:11 PM, Kraktus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to know if there is a technically feasible way of > minimising one of the most harmful things Tor could potentially be > used for. Nope. > And if it's not technically feasible? Fine, I like Tor anyway, I > won't stop runn

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Kraktus
On 24/01/2008, Paul Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Child Pornography is not the cancer killing Tor. Nor is it bandwidth > leeches. The cancer killing Tor are the people who want to make it like > the rest of the internet. Why even have Tor is we make filters an > exceptions? Why not just, use

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Karsten N. wrote: (snip) | Child porn is very very bad, but is it not a task for tor, to remove | this kind of stuff. If someone would to do something against this | stuff, please help the justice. (snip) If he wants to find a place to help: http:/

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Henning wrote: (snip) | Kraktus: Disable Tor if you don't like the Wild West it was meant to be. (snip) Heh, this reminds me of a joke from a while back: WWW doesn't mean World Wide Web. It means Wild Wild West. =xoD - -- F. Fox: A+, Network

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nils Vogels wrote: (snip) | * Who would be the authority to decide what goes in the list and what | doesn't? (snip) Moreover, who could be such an authority, without risking serious felony jailtime? - -- F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+ Owner of To

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Oh, for the love of God, no! My position: 1.) Filters don't work; ask any teenager. 2.) I loathe filters of any kind, purely on principle; once you start filtering for one thing, filtering for others becomes an easier jump. 3.) If filtering is d

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Marko Sihvo
Kraktus kirjoitti: On 24/01/2008, Ben Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Cries of "you're blocking child porn, why not also block warez/hate speech/freenet/political propoganda that I don't like" Warez is bad, but it hurts people's wallets, Warez is bad? I disagree. Sharing is cari

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Marko Sihvo
Ben Wilhelm kirjoitti: And, the biggest problems to my mind: * If the blacklist is stored in a downloadable form of any kind, effectively making a *list of child pornography sites* :D:D:D you are right... we are doing this in finland _A LIST OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY SITES_ by the police and

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Scheinost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kraktus wrote: > Okay, here's my idea: Suppose exit servers included the term 'reject > cp_blacklist' in their torrcs. If it worked well, it could be > included in the default exit policy. as already proven for email services blacklists suck (ju

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Karsten N.
Eugen Leitl schrieb: > I'm certainly stop running Tor and switch > to a different project if vigilantes ruin > a yet another perfectly good tool. > > Don't like content? Filter it in your client. > Problem is undecidable? Tough titty. Go offline, > or learn to live with it. Same opinion! Child

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Wilhelm
Kraktus wrote: Warez is bad, but it hurts people's wallets, not innocent children, so it's more of an economic crime than a crime against humanity. In other words, blocking child porn is more worth the effort. One could easily argue that the transmission of child porn doesn't hurt children a

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:38:14AM -0500, Kraktus wrote: > Okay, here's my idea: Suppose exit servers included the term 'reject ... > I realise, of course, there are problems with this. Why do you keep trolling this stinker of an idea? ... > Is this idea even feasible? I'm certainly stop runnin

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Paul Henning
Child Pornography is not the cancer killing Tor. Nor is it bandwidth leeches. The cancer killing Tor are the people who want to make it like the rest of the internet. Why even have Tor is we make filters an exceptions? Why not just, use the internet. I mean, Tor's anonymity is weak anyway, so is th

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Kraktus
On 24/01/2008, Ben Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kraktus wrote: >> I realise, of course, there are problems with this. > > * Use of effort that could be spent other places True. Then again, we occasionally get people saying they won't run exit servers if there isn't an easy way for the to

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Kraktus
On 24/01/2008, Nils Vogels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a few thoughts on this: > > * Who would be the authority to decide what goes in the list and what > doesn't? The same directory authorities that distribute the list of Tor nodes. Hopefully they would all agree, though obviously there wou

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Wilhelm
Kraktus wrote: I realise, of course, there are problems with this. * Use of effort that could be spent other places * Possible legal liability issues * Cries of "you're blocking child porn, why not also block warez/hate speech/freenet/political propoganda that I don't like" * Every single pro

Re: Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Nils Vogels
Just a few thoughts on this: * Who would be the authority to decide what goes in the list and what doesn't? * How can you be sure that you are using the Authentic CP-List, instead of the one that comes from The Great Wall and contains whitehouse.gov? -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like

Child pornography blocking again

2008-01-24 Thread Kraktus
Okay, here's my idea: Suppose exit servers included the term 'reject cp_blacklist' in their torrcs. If it worked well, it could be included in the default exit policy. cp_blacklist could be a variable rather than an explicit IP address or hostname. The IP addresses and hostnames included in that