Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Syverson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:09:43PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): On 3/21/2011 2:39 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Last comments for a while. (All I have time for, sorry.) I'm just going to

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/21/2011 6:38 PM, Al MailingList wrote: That's a very good point klaus. Joe - if you think the US Government is one big cohesive entity that funds projects consistently from a single pool of resources and money then I would politely suggest you may not have had much to do with them :P

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Watson Ladd
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: Why would any govt create something their enemies can easily use against them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a govt has absolutely no control over it?  It's that simple.  It would seem a

[tor-talk] Users profiling through personаl banners filtering settings

2011-03-22 Thread unknown
Too many users dislikes of annoying web elements -- banners, popups, scripts, strange frames. They use a tools to blocks that elements or change webpage rendering. Traditional programs for filtering is a local proxys -- privoxy or polipo are examples with close relation to Tor and used

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread Benedikt Westermann
Jim, I am unclear as to what you are saying.. you noticed port 22 traffic you weren't expecting on one of your machines.. Do you recall if that traffic was INITIATED from your machine or were you seeing UNSOLICITED incoming SYNs for port 22? Your machine, running a Tor client, initiates

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:13:33 -0400 From: Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.org How are you detecting ssh activity? actual protocol analysis or tcp port 22? There are valid relays on tcp port 22 which your tor client may connect to in the normal operation of tor. having tshark

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
From: Benedikt Westermann westerm...@q2s.ntnu.no Your machine, running a Tor client, initiates a connection to a machine on port 22. This is your situation as I understood it. All of the mentioned IPs are IPs of Tor nodes and all of them announcing port 22 as a listen port, e.g.,

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/22/2011 3:57 PM, Michael Reed wrote: BINGO, we have a winner! The original *QUESTION* posed that led to the invention of Onion Routing was, Can we build a system that allows for bi-directional communications over the Internet where the source and destination cannot be determined by a