Re: [tor-relays] Anonbox Project

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 10/16/2014 11:31 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote: Out of curiosity, has anyone reached out to the guys running the Kickstarter? Yes. I and others have been talking to August since last week, before the article was published and kickstarter was launched. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-relays] Anonbox Project

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 10/15/2014 08:00 AM, Thomas White wrote: I am personally hoping somebody high up in the Tor Project management will openly condemn this atrocity and hopefully Kickstarter and the funders will withdraw their funds before a whole load of people buy into this security as a tool idea. I'm more

Re: [tor-relays] Exits behind a next-gen firewall? Opinions please

2014-07-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 07/10/2014 07:23 PM, Jesse Victors wrote: My ISP now tells me that they could reduce the reports even further by routing the exits through a next-generation firewall which apparently can detect an obvious clearnet attack and drop that connection a few milliseconds after the attack occurs.

[tor-relays] Yahoo and AOL emails removed from tor-relays due to bounces

2014-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
It seems Yahoo and AOL email servers have decided to refuse all messages from this tor-relays list. Other lists aren't affected, yet. We're seeing this message from Yahoo and AOL servers: Status: 5.2.1 Remote-MTA: dns; mailin-04.mx.aol.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 521 5.2.1 : (DMARC) This message

Re: [tor-relays] Best way for normal OS X users to run a relay?

2014-06-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/04/2014 06:35 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2014-06-05 00:06, Roger Dingledine wrote: What is the best way to run a relay on OS X currently? But if you just want tor though, try Homebrew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/tor.rb We could really use

Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:36:39 -0400 Rick reru...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, I don't think so. Perhaps it's the timing. In this post-Snowden period most everything is a little bit creepy. There's plenty of FUD to go around. A position paper from Torproject on this and other recent issues would be

Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:29:26 -0400 t...@t-3.net wrote: In the context of September 2013, this whole thing is scary. It was perhaps not scary in September of 2012, when we didn't know anything. Just a point that many in the tech community knew what was happening, at some level, for the past

Re: [tor-relays] Node specialization

2013-08-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:58:12 -0700 Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Pascal wrote: http://torstatus.blutmagie.de indicates that only 21.4% of Tor nodes are exit nodes. Are we wasting this precious resource by running non-exit traffic through

Re: [tor-relays] Tor bridge on Amazon not doing much

2013-08-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:46:19 +0200 Karsten Loesing kars...@torproject.org wrote: There's no way a bridge operator knows which bucket you're in. Actually, there is (finally) a way to find out: http://globe.rndm.de This tells me there isn't an official way to find out. It's a work a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor bridge on Amazon not doing much

2013-08-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:11:38 -0700 Shawn A. Miller salexandermil...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running a Tor bridge on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform (per instructions at https://cloud.torproject.org/) since July 27, and while the bridge is up and running according to the logs, there

Re: [tor-relays] Vidalia can't open Tor after machine restart

2013-07-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:05:47 +1000 Shane Nagle sh...@shanenagle.com wrote: I have sent several emails to the Tor mailing lists but so far have heard no reply or seen any posting of my inquiry. Any support would be appreciated. The best place for support is to email h...@rt.torproject.org. As

Re: [tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

2012-07-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:08:05 +0200 Andreas Fink af...@datacell.com wrote: Traffic from Iceland is still relatively expensive. However we could host some machines in other places where we interconnect on internet exchanges. Is this true for IPv6 too? I've found asking for IPv6-only servers is

Re: [tor-relays] This is what you get....compile problem OSX10.4

2012-01-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:47:21 + Geoff Down geoffd...@fastmail.net wrote: So if I understand correctly, I should use $ unset LDFLAGS $ CFLAGS=-O -g -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -arch ppc $ ./configure --with-libevent-dir=/opt/local --with-openssl-dir=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking

Re: [tor-relays] This is what you get....compile problem OSX10.4

2012-01-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:58 + Geoff Down geoffd...@fastmail.net wrote: No OSX10.4 build machine now as well as no OSX10.3 . All that old hardware going to waste. The 10.3 machine had the system board partially melt during a qt compile (which takes 15 hours on a ppc). Turns out the cpu

Re: [tor-relays] This is what you get....compile problem OSX10.4

2012-01-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:46:21 -0500 Justin Aplin jap...@gmail.com wrote: If I'm not mistaken, I think the devtools for 10.5 can backport to 10.4, and I know that the 10.4 devtools can build for 10.2 and 10.3. Well, in theory, at least; I've never tried it myself. We could never get the

Re: [tor-relays] Relay vs. bridge: difference in traffic?

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:21:44 -0500 Steve Snyder swsny...@snydernet.net wrote: Can someone tell how being a bridge compares to being a regular exit node in terms of traffic? The difference is vast. Exit nodes will use all configured bandwidth. Bridges, depending how many users you attract, are

Re: [tor-relays] TBB on same system as relay?

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 21:30:59 Rick Huebner wrote: way of using Tor as a client. How can I run the TBB on my system without interfering with my relay? TBB supports randomized socks port and control port configurations. I use it on a relay just fine. These options are disabled on