Re: [tor-talk] Aurora or Firefox?

2011-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On 16/10/11 15:17, Achter Lieber wrote: Hello. I keep seeing mention made of Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle but my download version has something called Aurora. Why is this or is it just out of habit of using Firefox before one remembers and switches lingo? Aurora is what Firefox calls

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread William Wrightman
Full disk encryption is possible. For Debian or Ubuntu you can enable I don't really understand the apparent benefit of full disk encryption as opposed to using TrueCrypt partitions. AIUI if you are using FDE then the password is stored in the RAM while the computer is on. If the

Re: [tor-talk] whats the very first connection initialized by tor at startup?

2011-10-16 Thread Simon Nicolussi
fido dido wrote: i mean there must be a server who got at least a bit of information about some nodes to start from. like in bittorrent where the tracker knows all the peers. These would be the directory authorities that can be found in the function add_default_trusted_dir_authorities in

Re: [tor-talk] Live CD for using Tor

2011-10-16 Thread phil...@bailey.st
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2011 04:11 PM, Achter Lieber wrote: Hello. Can Tor be used on a live CD at internet shops or cafes? They are not wifi and all such places here use W...W...W...W...Windows. I'm guessing many are p...p...p...p...pilfered

Re: [tor-talk] since today check.torproject.org states you are not using tor

2011-10-16 Thread andrew
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 06:09:32PM +0800, 2choon...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 26 lines about: : I also notice that vadalia control panel is not closing itself after I : have closed the browser. Another bug? Please read the rest of this thread, problem already solved. -- Andrew pgp key:

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/16/2011 3:05 PM, Julian Yon wrote: On 16/10/11 17:57, William Wrightman wrote: When you have finished then you close the partition. Now the password is cleared from the RAM. Thoughts? If you (or someone you ultimately trust) didn't write or audit the code yourself then you are making a