Re: [tor-relays] Legal status of operating Tor exit in UK?

2015-09-08 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry to respond to this late, but some advice I received from my legal team not long ago might help on this. I apologise in advance that I won't be able to disclose the whole letter of it but some of the stuff contained within it is legally

Re: [tor-relays] Google Compute Engine rejected as relay?

2015-08-19 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think this is from the Lizard Squad attempted (and miserably failed) sybil attack. The directory authorities will need to remove the ASN from the blacklist. T On 20/08/2015 06:00, Greg wrote: Hi, I tried to spin up a relay on GCE a few days ago,

Re: [tor-relays] Problems with second/third relay

2015-06-24 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are they all on the same IP address? You can only have 2 relays per IP address. T On 24/06/2015 15:22, TORnet Zone wrote: Really need some help here, just cannot find the answer. I've been running 2 middle relays for a year now, from a

[tor-relays] Multi-core Support

2015-06-01 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have there been any updated ETAs concerning the development/support of multi-core for the core tor workloads? If not, is there anything in particular that I could do to speed the process up? Scaling the capabilities of the Tor process would be a huge

Re: [tor-relays] Globe works fine

2015-03-28 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mine are still operational if the primary tor project ones have any difficulties: https://globe.thecthulhu.com And the hidden service for it: http://globe223ezvh6bps.onion They run their own Onionoo backends so if the main one has troubles, it

[tor-relays] Legal Troubles

2015-03-04 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I am just doing some planning for my own exits at the moment and researching the legal provisions and experience for a variety of jurisdictions. If anyone has any experience of raids as a result of running a Tor relay or other legal

[tor-relays] Extreme Overclocking / Relay Performance

2015-01-11 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Having discussed this with my partner earlier today, I am curious as to what knowledge the community might have on overclocking a CPU or using other speciality hardware to create an ultra fast Tor relay. I am aware of what IPredator have done but I

[tor-relays] Whitelist

2014-12-23 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Directory Authorities, Can you please remove the following fingerprints/IP's from the blacklist as per my previous updates in tor-talk. D78AB0013D95AFA60757333645BAA03A169DF722 6F545A39D4849C9FE5B08A6D68C8B3478E4B608B

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Meetup at 31c3 - 28.12. 14:15

2014-12-22 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Assuming the court returns my passport in the court session I have later today, I will be available to answer any questions on the operations of such in the UK and on how to handle law enforcement given the unfortunate volume of encounters I've had

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Meetup at 31c3 - 28.12. 14:15

2014-12-22 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mirimir: On 12/22/2014 07:44 PM, Thomas White wrote: Assuming the court returns my passport in the court session I have later today, I will be available to answer any questions on the operations of such in the UK and on how to handle law

Re: [tor-relays] exit node experience: abuse over HTTP, stealrat infection

2014-10-24 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ask your upstream to filter their reports if you can, I can testify I have received in excess of 300 complaints from them and ironically, they ignored all of my responses to them for the first 200 or so I responded to. Ultimately (if you'll excuse my

Re: [tor-relays] exit node experience: abuse over HTTP, stealrat infection

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes there are safe harbour provisions. When it comes to civil issues, for example DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) issues, it is worth considering DMCA title 11 Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA USA Law) as the

Re: [tor-relays] exit node experience: abuse over HTTP, stealrat infection

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas White
Already working on it (see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13421) Will involve a lot of outreach and will need to consider lots of jurisdictions but it can be done with a few volunteers over the next few weeks I feel. I may also be proposing on trac a @torproject.org email for

Re: [tor-relays] Anonbox Project

2014-10-15 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well the topic has come up several times in the last day or two on IRC and generally the feeling is that it may be quite bad for the users of the product, not necessarily the Tor network however. One thing that AnonBox does do is increase Tor network

Re: [tor-relays] Anonbox Project

2014-10-15 Thread Thomas White
in the hands of people riding the wave following the NSA fallout in hope for profit and not actual innovation. - -T On 15/10/2014 15:51, Andrew Lewman wrote: 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

Re: [tor-relays] GoodBadISPs revamp?

2014-10-14 Thread Thomas White
I will open this up on trac tomorrow and go about with a few proposals of how exactly to redesign it. If Tor is to scale we'll need to consider a few factors as the reasonable expectation is for both the list to continue to grow and that if it is made easier to use, that it will be used more often

Re: [tor-relays] GoodBadISPs revamp?

2014-10-13 Thread Thomas White
, Lunar wrote: Thomas White: Anyone with access to create a new page on the list and we can add subsections to a new page containing the dated responses from each company on their policy towards Tor hosting. Sounds like a good idea but anybody working on this should keep in mind that diversity

Re: [tor-relays] GoodBadISPs revamp?

2014-10-12 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I fully agree. I proposed a while back to try work on sortable tables and to make the entire thing table based with factual information and then have a column for anecdotal comments. As a community I think we should also be more transparent in

Re: [tor-relays] How many exits can we run?

2014-10-09 Thread Thomas White
Agreed with the above. If you run more than a single exit I would further recommend that you try to diversify the exit location, IP ranges and ISP if you can. That's not a huge issue if it's only a few servers being run, but if you begin to process over 125MB/s of traffic overall, it's best to

Re: [tor-relays] Oniontip

2014-09-28 Thread Thomas White
[2] https://github.com/DonnchaC/oniontip/blob/master/scripts/payment-check.py On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 02:32 -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thomas White: Hmmm... appears to be have been upgraded since I last checked then (which was only a few weeks ago!). Nicely done oniontip. I stand corrected

Re: [tor-relays] Oniontip

2014-09-28 Thread Thomas White
I have a server that can be used but I'd rather not personally maintain it so if somebody can manage it, I can provide the hardware connection. -T On 28/09/2014 18:24, Karsten Loesing wrote: On 28/09/14 16:00, George Kadianakis wrote: Thomas White thomaswh...@riseup.net writes: My concern

Re: [tor-relays] Oniontip

2014-09-27 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm... appears to be have been upgraded since I last checked then (which was only a few weeks ago!). Nicely done oniontip. I stand corrected. On 28/09/2014 03:28, Ed Carter wrote: The process is completely transparent. All Bitcoin transactions

Re: [tor-relays] Estimating the value and cost of the Tor network

2014-09-25 Thread Thomas White
info on these too?) Regards, Thomas White On 25/09/2014 08:21, Mike Perry wrote: I really need identity fingerprints to see how much traffic your node is actually pushing, what its consensus weight is, when and how often it is hibernating, if it is otherwise strangely rate limited, etc

Re: [tor-relays] managing bandwidth quotum

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well one thing to note is that setting a bandwidth rate means you could significantly underutilise your bandwidth capabilities, as opposed to an overall cap. Also to consider the bandwidth on offer, I would personally set it to use as much bandwidth

Re: [tor-relays] Contacting Apple About a Block IP Address

2014-08-12 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don't run a relay from your own IP address. Pretty standard advice there sorry regardless if it's an exit or non-exit. I guess the people at Apple simply downloaded every Tor server IP and put no effort into reading the differences between types of

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Nodes under DDOS attacks

2014-08-04 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I receive several DDOS's per month, between 5 and 10 (I suspect that is because I run a higher volume of relays than most so don't take that as a normal figure). I have a 20Gbps connection with my ISP and Tor uses perhaps 4Gbps of it so the DDOS's

Re: [tor-relays] providers with AES-NI?

2014-07-25 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd be wary of Online.net - they are proactively against Tor and will close your account without a refund very probably, even just relays who aren't exits. i3d.net look good. I would recommend Snel.com (my host), Leaseweb or OVH but they all already

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-dev] Hidden service policies

2014-07-20 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Hearn, Simple. If you start filtering anything at all, regardless of what it is (yes, even if you filter child porn or fraud sites) then I will block any connection of your relays to mine (which are exits and guards totally 4Gbps). There are

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael, First of all thank you for running an exit. I run a large series of exits in the Netherlands (https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=Chandlerfilters[country]=nl) and I am a UK citizen. Having experienced many troubles, including server