Re: [tor-talk] New Browser Bundle

2011-11-03 Thread Achter Lieber
- Original Message - From: and...@torproject.org Sent: 11/04/11 08:46 AM To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New Browser Bundle On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:30:00AM -0400, zzretro...@email2me.net wrote 4.2K bytes in 100 lines about: : Any reason for this? Even after I

Re: [tor-talk] What is tor used for?

2011-11-03 Thread grarpamp
> i believe there is a real need for secure communications but as a new user > to tor it seems the common entry points to the network are rife with > criminal activity. > > the torproject website lists users as friends and family, military, > business owners etc - use cases that make sense to me, b

Re: [tor-talk] New Browser Bundle

2011-11-03 Thread andrew
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:30:00AM -0400, zzretro...@email2me.net wrote 4.2K bytes in 100 lines about: : Any reason for this? Even after I unchecked "enable globally" I started to surf : and then noticed a different icon on the top of the window of Aurora where it : now shows an icon for 'Tor

Re: [tor-talk] What is tor used for?

2011-11-03 Thread andrew
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:23:48AM -, toru...@tormail.net wrote 0.9K bytes in 25 lines about: : the torproject website lists users as friends and family, military, : business owners etc - use cases that make sense to me, but i've yet to : find any stories or ancedontal evidence to suggest this

Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-03 Thread George Kadianakis
tl;dr Did you by any chance compile tor with bufferevents enabled (--enable-bufferevents)? Let's see the path of the sent bytes string: The heartbeat code (src/or/status.c) receives the bytes sent in log_heartbeat() using 'uint64_t get_bytes_written(void)' and stores it into a uint64_t. Then it

Re: [tor-talk] Tor-fi: risks of mobile hotspot feature in Orbot 1.0.6

2011-11-03 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Nathan Freitas wrote: > While is definitely a feature that has a cool factor to it and will get > some attention, I want to make sure we have thought through the > risks/downsides of utilizing this feature, so that we can communicate > them in any blogs, we

Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-03 Thread Sebastian Lechte
>> Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 6:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've >> sent 48.04 GB and received 992.41 MB. > > This looks like a mostly-harmless integer overflow bug. How so? I'd expect much lower values, not higher. I think it would help to post the bandwidth history: Tor's uptime is

[tor-talk] Tor-fi: risks of mobile hotspot feature in Orbot 1.0.6

2011-11-03 Thread Nathan Freitas
Orbot 1.0.6 has a new feature that allows someone with a rooted Android device that offers wifi or USB tethering, to route the traffic of the tethered device(s) over Tor. This means 1-5 devices connected over wifi, or just 1 device (a laptop most likely) over USB. While is definitely a feature t

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.2.34 crashes

2011-11-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:38 PM, thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for your response. Couriously I find no corefile. The SEGV in your trace suggests that it died in a way that could have produced a core, if core dumps were enabled. Is there something in your chroot configur

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.2.34 crashes

2011-11-03 Thread thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de
Hello, thanks for your response. Couriously I find no corefile. But I did that nice command: root# strace -f -o tor.strace.02 /usr/bin/chroot /chroot/tor /bin/tor The tracefiles have between 7 an 10 mb, with gzip 500-850k. Are you interested in having a look at one? They end up with these lin

Re: [tor-talk] New Browser Bundle

2011-11-03 Thread Zaher F .
yes u r right .. Java Script an cookies should be disabled but why there r not in this version this is the question should been answered Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:30:00 -0400 From: zzretro...@email2me.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] New Browser Bundle

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.2.34 crashes

2011-11-03 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de wrote: > Hello tories, > > after reading this mail I started to upgrade my two tor nodes which ran > stable for years. I never have seen my tor process disappearing from the > process list. Unfortunamtely, after upgrading to 2.2.34 on

Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-03 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2011-11-03, Sebastian Lechte wrote: > My local tor client runs 0.2.3.7-alpha. Just now I stumbled upon this: > > Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 6:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've > sent 48.04 GB and received 992.41 MB. > > > I don't run a bridge and don't run hidden services. Nothing in

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.2.34 crashes

2011-11-03 Thread thomas.hluch...@netcologne.de
Hello tories, after reading this mail I started to upgrade my two tor nodes which ran stable for years. I never have seen my tor process disappearing from the process list. Unfortunamtely, after upgrading to 2.2.34 on both nodes tor is crashing within a short time. I started tor in debug mode

[tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-03 Thread Sebastian Lechte
My local tor client runs 0.2.3.7-alpha. Just now I stumbled upon this: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 6:00 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 48.04 GB and received 992.41 MB. I don't run a bridge and don't run hidden services. Nothing in my usage makes me expect the large 'sent' value. Is

[tor-talk] SOCKS error

2011-11-03 Thread David H. Lipman
One moment I get name resolution and I can access a site. Then I get... Connect to THE_SITE_NAME:80 failed: SOCKS error And I can't access it any longer. WHY ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp __

Re: [tor-talk] What is tor used for?

2011-11-03 Thread Julian Yon
On 03/11/11 04:23, toru...@tormail.net wrote: > so far it has me wondering if tor is really used for the humanitarian > purposes the technology has the potential of aiding. i would really > appreciate hearing real stories and highlights of how has helped in the > use cases torproject lists. I'm w

[tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20111103 released

2011-11-03 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686, x86_64 or MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by hardening the

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use Google as default search in Tor Browser?

2011-11-03 Thread Advrk Aplmrkt
On 2 November 2011 20:17, Julian Yon wrote: > On 02/11/11 23:32, Joe Btfsplk wrote: >> I have no concrete knowledge if it would violate any Mozilla agreements. > > As the GPL is one of the license options, there is no way that any > contract or agreement between Google and Mozilla could possibly b

Re: [tor-talk] What is tor used for?

2011-11-03 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:23:48AM -, toru...@tormail.net wrote: > i believe there is a real need for secure communications but as a new user > to tor it seems the common entry points to the network are rife with > criminal activity. > > the torproject website lists users as friends and family