Re: [tor-talk] Open links in TBB

2011-12-23 Thread Orionjur Tor-admin
On 23.12.2011 19:58, Greg Kalitnikoff wrote: > Hi. Assuming I have some modern Linux distro and run TBB as separate > user, can I somehow open links from other apps (such as email and im > progs, started as other user) in TBB by clicking on it? > > Thanks. Probably you can configuration other app

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
> We already offer this. See the Expert Bundle, > https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#windows. That is for Microsoft Windows and am pretty confident that it is not the same thing. The TBB has plug-ins and other configuration changes in it to enhance security such as the HTTPS Eve

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread andrew
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:40:39PM -0500, tmail...@errtech.com wrote 1.9K bytes in 44 lines about: : For various reasons it sounds like there is a lot of demand for separating : Tor from the TBB. It would be nice if we could fund the development of We already offer this. See the Expert Bundle, ht

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 07:18:58PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > Tor uses a set of currently 8 directory > > authorities (I operate one of them, gabelmoo), and uses them to > > bootstrap. Blocking them all is easy, and prevents bootstrapping for Tor > > clients that aren't using bridges, but if a bridge

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
>> Tor has a vulnerability where there are only two or three bootstraping >> servers. They are spread out from my understanding although also a point >> of vulnerability. It requires 2 of three server currently I believe to >> compromise the service. If I recall correctly there is the possibility

Re: [tor-talk] janusvm still safe?

2011-12-23 Thread anonym
12/22/2011 10:31 AM, Matej Kovacic: > > The only problem is, I cannot copy-paste data from and to clipboards > between host and TAILS. That is easily enabled (at least for text, don't know about more rich media as images etc.) by issuing the following command as root: VBoxClient --clipboard

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
For various reasons it sounds like there is a lot of demand for separating Tor from the TBB. It would be nice if we could fund the development of features like this. I imagine some of us would be more willing to donate if certain features would be added as a result. I donate a fair amount of spare

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Dec 24, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Chris wrote: > [snip] > > The threat here potentially comes from governments mandating a back door. All Tor developers that have voiced their opinion on the matter of backdoors state that they would never put in a backdoor, and personally I would immediately quit th

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi hmoh, On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:23 PM, h...@safe-mail.net wrote: > Tor and all stuff is Open Source and many people looking inside for security > review. A very weak link is that most users use the precompiled ready to use > binaries. But it is not possible to be sure that binaries are build from

Re: [tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
There is probably a better way to solve this problem without having to compile the code yourself. The simple fact is that users are not going to be competent enough to evaluate the code or even evaluate the changes in the code from one release to the next. The threat here potentially comes from go

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread b.g. white
Firefox Nightly and Firefox UX are both available as portables I believe. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM,   wrote: >> Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? > > I am looking for such a solu

[tor-talk] Open links in TBB

2011-12-23 Thread Greg Kalitnikoff
Hi. Assuming I have some modern Linux distro and run TBB as separate user, can I somehow open links from other apps (such as email and im progs, started as other user) in TBB by clicking on it? Thanks. -- Greg ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.to

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: > Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? I am looking for such a solution too. On Windows, you can use portable Firefox and install the extensions. On GNU, I realize the only available portable Firefox is the tbb package and I ha

[tor-talk] Tor - 1-click-compile-version

2011-12-23 Thread hmoh
Tor and all stuff is Open Source and many people looking inside for security review. A very weak link is that most users use the precompiled ready to use binaries. But it is not possible to be sure that binaries are build from an unaltered source code. The precompiled binaries may include back d

Re: [tor-talk] new portable Tor browser

2011-12-23 Thread Joe Btfsplk
It is NoScript addon that is prohibiting Flash. You'll have to go into its settings to allow Flash & the settings you want. Suggest you also go to Flash Player (plugin) settings mgr - online - to limit what sites can do / store. http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/h

[tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread hmoh
Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? I mean, I am not using Tor for all my browsing. That would be to slow and also waste Tor resources. For very basic non critical use I am using a normal firefox. I've done everything I found to tweak the privacy, to slow down data min

Re: [tor-talk] janusvm still safe?

2011-12-23 Thread tor
On 23/12/11 01:00, Gozu-san wrote: > Using encrypted LVM, swap (everything except boot) is encrypted. Still, > amnesia requires shutting down the host. If total amnesia is important, > you can turn off swap, write zeros to it, and then turn it back on again. I use encrypted LVM on my laptop. I

Re: [tor-talk] Automatic vulnerability scanning of Tor Network?

2011-12-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 12/22/11 12:35 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > I really appreciate that you're not working for people who wish to do > the Tor network harm. Please do consider the concerns of people in this > thread and weight your actions against those people. They too are trying > to help the network, the projec