Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Hogan
I've put together the sort of page I think new Tor users need to visit when they get started on Tor for the first time. It's designed for TorK users, so doesn' t attempt to check your IP address or anything like that. Since it's very hard for a web service to know *all* Tor nodes at any given ti

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-16 Thread Ringo Kamens
I think asking people to switch to linux and text-only browsers is fairly onerous. Firefox is very intiutive to IE users and isn't really a "switch". Ringo Kamens On 2/16/07, Watson Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ringo Kamens wrote: > I agree, people are working on network-wide attacks (which i

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-16 Thread Watson Ladd
Ringo Kamens wrote: > I agree, people are working on network-wide attacks (which is great) > but the biggest and most obvious risk to user privacy/anonymity is > scripts. Perhaps firefox and noscript should come bundled and > configured? > Ringo Kamens How about lynx? Prompts on every cookie, no ja

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:08:31AM -0500, James Muir wrote: [...] > The NoScript extension with FireFox works great -- it disables all > scripts and plugins. I hope people who really need anonymity are using > these. However, I expect that many are using IE. I don't run Windows, > but I woul

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-15 Thread Ringo Kamens
I agree, people are working on network-wide attacks (which is great) but the biggest and most obvious risk to user privacy/anonymity is scripts. Perhaps firefox and noscript should come bundled and configured? Ringo Kamens On 2/15/07, James Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Mathewson wrote: >

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-15 Thread James Muir
Nick Mathewson wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:58:36PM -0800, Wesley Kenzie wrote: I've got an initial version up now at http://www.showmyip.com/torstatus/ - feedback welcome! More content and links to come! As others have noted, this is really excellent, but there's way too much informatio

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:58:36PM -0800, Wesley Kenzie wrote: > I've got an initial version up now at http://www.showmyip.com/torstatus/ - > feedback welcome! More content and links to come! As others have noted, this is really excellent, but there's way too much information there for it to be u

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-09 Thread Robert Hogan
AIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robert Hogan > Sent: February 1, 2007 1:48 PM > To: or-talk@freehaven.net > Subject: Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page > > On Thursday 21 December 2006 18:36, Robert Hogan wrote: > > On Thursday 21 December 2006

RE: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-04 Thread Wesley Kenzie
-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page On Thursday 21 December 2006 18:36, Robert Hogan wrote: > On Thursday 21 December 2006 05:19, you wrote: > > Good idea. We will work on getting a page available on showmyip.com > > to do th

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-01 Thread Enigma
have you thought of creating a chopped-down version of > showmyip.com that concentrates on the browser/OS properties (such > as javascript) as well as displaying geographical info? > > >>> -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Hogan
OTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Robert Hogan > > Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM > > To: or-talk@freehaven.net > > Subject: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > &g

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-21 Thread Robert Hogan
bert Hogan > Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM > To: or-talk@freehaven.net > Subject: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page > > > > Hi all, > > http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1 > https://tns.nighteffect.com/ > htt

re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-20 Thread Wesley Kenzie
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hogan Sent: December 19, 2006 1:07 PM To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page Hi all, http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?t

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-19 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, Suggestions for content: * A warm greeting! * Top Five things all tor users should know * Appeal for users to run servers and link to how-to * An introduction to some hidden services Maybe site should try to execute JavaScript/Java which will "steal" the real IP address and see if user i

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-19 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 21:22, Michael Holstein wrote: > what about http://www.showmyip.com > > It will tell you if you're using a TOR node (and which one, as well as > its exit policy) > > ~Mike. > It's almost as overwhelming as tns and torstat. I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of a

Re: suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Holstein
what about http://www.showmyip.com It will tell you if you're using a TOR node (and which one, as well as its exit policy) ~Mike. Robert Hogan wrote: Hi all, http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1 https://tns.nighteffect.com/ https://torstat.xenobite.eu/ All of the above p

suggestion for 'is my installation of tor working?' page

2006-12-19 Thread Robert Hogan
Hi all, http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddr.pl?tor=1 https://tns.nighteffect.com/ https://torstat.xenobite.eu/ All of the above provide useful information for the first-time tor user. But the last two are only really meaningful to initates (and probably confusing to everyone else),