Re: 80%+ Tor network relay "locations" unknown

2010-05-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
ssue. See https://trac.vidalia- project.net/changeset/4284 for the details. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To u

Re: Family specifications (was: Re: perfect-privacy.com, Family specifications, etc)

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
open and active area of research as to the degree of anonymity (increase or decrease) one receives as you develop trusted paths through the network (pick your own path), or Autonomous System aware paths, or country level aware paths, etc. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Web

Re: Bridges and China (new thread)

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
ions of http/https proxies out there. Try http://proxy.org/ as a starting point. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject **

Re: No fingerprint in "Notice" level log on Windows

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:04:17 -0400 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: > Is anyone else as anal as me about noticing things like this? Sounds like a fine bug to report. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.o

Re: Tor Browser Bundle question

2010-05-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
/svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/docs/traces.txt And the pen drive will have whatever history, bookmarks, and cookies you told firefox to save. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Id

Technology Preview: Windows client as a bridge by default

2010-06-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
oes it work for you?" test package. So far, it's worked on the 4 different networks I've tried. Apologies to the 300 Chinese users who used my bridge on one of the test networks, only to have it go away a day later. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://w

Re: Google language turns depending on tor node...

2010-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
ionRouter/TorFAQ#WhydoesGoogleshowupinforeignlanguages -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject skype: lewmanator *** To unsubscr

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
, just check that a response was received. The response is probably then catalogued for some future court case. And to your scary realization, yes, baseless accusations have concrete affects in the real world. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blo

Re: New Tor Relay: Help!!!!!

2010-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
ut nxdomain redirects at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP_redirect_page. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject skype: lewmanator ***

Re: mac and tor with little snitch

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
ion, I think. If you use tor, little snitch/ipfw won't see the traffic as it's being tunnelled through Tor. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject sk

Re: app for each app's tor control?

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
can program a little. is there some list member who can > help to outline the basic idea? It sounds like you want a gui for tsocks. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: t

Re: tor-proxy.net is official proxy site of TOR?

2010-07-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:51 +0530 emigrant wrote: > or is it safe enough? No. torproxy.net and tor-proxy.net, while two different sites, are wholly unrelated to The Tor Project. The torproxy.net domain may not even be using Tor as far as I can tell. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project

Re: app for each app's tor control?

2010-07-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
t; Looks like you're trying to use tsocks on os x? It doesn't (easily) > work on os x, even for non-gui apps. Whatever is in macports works fine for me. I use it daily. > There's a program from Dug Song named dsocks that does, I hear. I could never get this working on

Re: Problem with the TB automatically usage of an alternative search engine

2010-07-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
was any problem in sending them potentially millions of queries per day. They never responded. Now that we have their attention, maybe they will. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.o

Re: Could somebody comment that information?

2010-08-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
planation is this detainment and interrogation are due to Jacob's volunteering with Wikileaks. As far as we know today, the US government still believes in anonymity. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.tor

Re: Tor notice

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
ogy.shtml -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torpr

Re: An asking concirning the TB

2010-08-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
wsers have that value. > Why? What could mean the above value of that characterisrics? Maybe Seth or Peter can answer this question based on the code logic in panopticlick. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https:/

Re: Vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.x & Firefox 4 Silent Updates

2010-08-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
d the Firefox 3.5.x codebase. 3.6 is next, or maybe we just skip and go to 4.x. There is exactly one person working on this, so if people want faster updates to torbutton, more help is needed. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproje

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
009%20Financial%20%26%20Compliance%20Audit The best way we know to combat conspiracy theories and cranks is for the organization to be as transparent as possible. We hope you'll join us in protecting, providing, and strengthening anonymity online. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project p

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
ands aren't under US Government rule. Internews Europe is different from Internews, and funded completely differently. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/

Re: $keyid of my server

2010-08-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
erprint is Or here, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Iwanttorunmorethanonerelay -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: tor

Re: Tor Project 2008 Tax Return Now Online

2010-08-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
focus on the vast majority of traffic that helps someone. However, we have bridges, exit policies, and lots of other technologies they could sponsor just as easily. This is a long answer to your questions and suggestions. However, I encourage the debate. Even more so, I enco

Re: Why does Gmail claim Tor IPs are located in one country when blutmagie.de claims they are located in a different country?

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
pears to be located in the UK according to blutmagie.de. whois and RIPE agree with blutmagie. Gmail is wrong. Perhaps they use different geoip databases. If you look at your circuits, are you exiting from the UK or do you have split circuits where some may be going to gstatic.com through another

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

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
y I was asking "suspicious questions about ssl". -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator *

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

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
llance. I'll start a conversation with them. Thanks for bringing this up. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewmanator ***

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

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
As for your comment about "pain to switch", use two browsers. One for your Tor-based activities, and one for non-Tor activities. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Id

Re: IP-tables and TOR

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
ushing traffic through tor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject Skype: lewm

Re: Why does this happen?

2010-09-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
; your clock is not correct, Tor will not be able to function. Please > verify your computer displays the correct time. Either your clock or the directory server's clock is wrong. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog

Re: Vatlator 1.1. released

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew Lewman
to help others, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/LiveCDBestPractices. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B +1-781-352-0568 Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproj

Re: beneficia versus maleficia

2010-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:58:15 -0500 David Bennett wrote: > I am facing a moral dilemma in regards to joining the tor proxy > network. I am hoping a discussion may alleviate some of my concerns. It seems what you are wrestling with is the dual use nature of any technology. Some easy examples a

Re: StrictNodes

2010-10-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:57:42 +0100 "Geoff Down" wrote: > "[warn] The configuration option 'StrictExitNodes' is deprecated; use > 'StrictNodes' instead." > It would help if such an option were documented in > https://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en > or shipped in the expert install package

Re: vidalia source tarball is missing

2010-10-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:21:30 +0300 Erdem Bayer wrote: > Hi > > After last website update, vidalia source tarball link goes missing > from this address: > > http://www.torproject.org/projects/dist/vidalia-0.2.9.tar.gz > > However it is still referred on this page, but the download link is > bro

Re: Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - their comments on Tor and SSL - I don't understand.

2010-10-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:19:02 +0100 Matthew wrote: > There is a "Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers Guide" available at > http://ht4w.co.uk/. The first problem is the content is actually served up by hostingprod.com and not ht4w.co.uk. As far as the content in question, it is dangerously wrong

Re: can I only use 3 bridges in torrc ? thx

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:59:47 +0800 waterloo wrote: > can I only use 3 bridges in torrc ? thx You can use many more than 3. Tor will see if they are reachable and use those that are working. I've seen people with 50 configured in vidalia. -- Andrew pgp 0x31B0974B **

Re: Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha is out

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:11:44 -0500 Justin Aplin wrote: > I agree that dropping the expert packages might be a good idea, but > I don't see a reason that the Vidalia bundles should fall behind. The reason for the delay in packages is the powerpc build machine died a melting death when the internal

Re: Scalability and fairness [was: P2P over Tor [was: Anomos - anonBT]]

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:03:58 -0500 grarpamp wrote: > Wish the mbox or maildir archives were available/mirrored for easy > search, reading, reference and reply using native mail clients :) ...I wish people would stop cross-posting between -dev and -talk...;) -- Andrew pgp 0x31B0974B ***

Re: Anonymity easily thwarted by flooding network with relays?

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:19:03 -0800 "Theodore Bagwell" wrote: > Some of you may be aware of the paper,"Cyber Crime Scene > Investigations (C2SI) through Cloud Computing" > (http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/SPCC10_Fu.pdf) which > illustrates a feasible method of invalidating the anonymity affo

Re: Tor-node failed

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:29:58 + Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: > Last time my tor-node regularry fails. How can I debug causes of it? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#MyTorkeepscrashing. The text at that url is a fine start. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha is out

2010-12-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:25:25 + Matthew wrote: > In System / Administration / Software Sources / Authentication there > is an deb.torproject.org archive signing key dated 2009-09-04 with > the value 886DDD89. This is correct. > Am I correct to think that this key sufficient to verify updates

Re: Tor & Email?

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:02:34 -0500 grarpamp wrote: > > We've generally suggested gmail because their bulk account creation > > process was good. It seems this is not the case any more. > > What is this bulk account creation you speak of? Gmail used to have the ability to stop bots from creating

Re: Tor and google groups

2011-01-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:18:09 + Orionjur Tor-admin wrote: > Is it very difficult to buy a SIM without showing ID in the USA or > countries of Western Europe? Sorry for such off topic but it is very > interesting to know are there any countries in Western Europe or > states of the USA when it is

Re: Home Internet with Anonymity Built In

2011-01-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:55:32 +0800 Trystero Lot wrote: > will this work with linksys ata specially 3102? We're just adding a correct tor configuration to openwrt. If openwrt supports your device, then our tor mods should as well. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: Index of hidden services?

2011-01-07 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:22:58 -0600 Peter McCann wrote: > On the website describing how to set up a hidden service > I saw a mention of a (hypothetical?) "Hidden Services Wiki" > where pointers to hidden services are stored. Does such a wiki exist? > If so, where can I find it? Years ago, there w

Re: geeez...

2011-01-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:29:49 +0100 Dirk wrote: > But I wan't a legally binding statement from a lawyer or an official > (BSI) that running TOR exit nodes in germany is legal. Ask the CCC for a start. They have defended many Germans already. -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B ***

Re: polipo-tor deb/ubuntu native package

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:21:56 -0800 travis+ml-tor-t...@subspacefield.org wrote: > > The real answer is to fix firefox so it doesn't need a proxy > > between it and Tor. We patch firefox to do just this in the osx > > and linux tor browser bundles. Polipo was a fine kludge until > > either we start

or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
Hello or-talk subscribers, On February 19, 2011, we are migrating or-talk from or-t...@seul.org to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. We will migrate your e-mail address's subscription to the new list. You will receive a confirmation from the new mailing list software on the 19th. Current or-talk ar

Re: Tor exits in .edu space

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:51:56 -0500 Flamsmark wrote: > I run a Tor exit node because I support the ubiquitous availability > of strong anonymity for anyone who wants it. Tor is one of the > strongest, best- researched, and most widely-used online anonymity > system, and I want to help keep it runni

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:46:20 +0100 Jan Weiher wrote: > This node looks suspicious to me, because there is no contact info > given and the exit policy allows only unencrypted traffic: It hasn't shown up in any of the exit scans as suspicious. Lack of contact info isn't a concern. The exit policy

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:15:17 + Matthew wrote: > I'm still not getting this. My understanding is that you have the > data and the header when using TCP. If only the data is encrypted > then what happens to the headers? Does this image help at all? https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/pre

Re: Polipo bug reporting

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:20:10 + "Geoff Down" wrote: > Thank you Juliusz, I appreciate your efforts. > Clearly Tor needs to ship with a working Polipo, so if this is a real > fault would the bundle developers please revert to the version which > was in the Vidalia 0.2.9 bundle, which is still w

Re: Is "gatereloaded" a Bad Exit?

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
In my opinion, judging a relay based on exit policy is a slippery slope we don't want to go down. We never claim to make using Tor alone safer than using the Internet at large. Whether the creep is at Starbucks sniffing the wifi or running a relay is irrelevant to me. Encouraging people to use e

Re: Per-Tab Torbutton

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:25:30 -0500 Jerzy Ɓogiewa wrote: > Is it possible to have Torbutton activate Tor only on specified tabs > and not others? It would make Tor much more useful. Mike can answer this better, but I believe the main problem with this is that Firefox doesn't have a per-tab referen

Re: Proposal for making Tor TLS stand out less

2011-02-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
There is a fine thread on or-dev about this, starting here, http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Jan-2011/msg00029.html -- Andrew pgp 0x74ED336B *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk

Re: Scroogle and Tor

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:09:56 -0500 (EST) scroo...@lavabit.com wrote: > I've been fighting two different Tor users for a week. Each is > apparently having a good time trying to see how quickly they > can get results from Scroogle searches via Tor exit nodes. I've talked to a few services that do o

Re: or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-02-13 Thread Andrew Lewman
A reminder that this migration occurs this week. On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:05:03 -0500 Andrew Lewman wrote: > Hello or-talk subscribers, > > On February 19, 2011, we are migrating or-talk from or-t...@seul.org > to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. We will migrate your e-mail

Re: or-talk list migration Feb 19, 2011

2011-02-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
A final reminder that this migration occurs today. On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:35:14 -0500 Andrew Lewman wrote: > A reminder that this migration occurs this week. > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:05:03 -0500 > Andrew Lewman wrote: > > > Hello or-talk subscribers, > > >

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