Re: [tor-talk] Error binding network socket: Address already in use

2012-01-12 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi Andy! Nice to hear from you! :) On 11.01.2012 22:22, Andy Isaacson wrote: > We recently saw this on noisetor until we set tcp_tw_recycle = 1. > But you've presumably got that set already as I took it from your > sysctl.conf... Yes. > Are you also maxing out around 77k sockets per host? Prob

[tor-talk] reply to: Tor survey

2012-01-12 Thread Marco Valerio Barbera
Hello everyone, some of you received an email message from me a few hours ago about a survey I am doing on the effectiveness on a DoS attack on the Tor Network. I am writing you because I received a few, worried, private messages asking me to give some more detail about it on this mailing list. A

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread Jon
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, skep wrote: > Hi, > > I've put up some graphical world maps of the tor user to internet > population per country ratio. Tor user statistics are from > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html and the internet pop. per > country data from the world factbook site (l

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread Jon
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, skep wrote: > Hi, > > I've put up some graphical world maps of the tor user to internet > population per country ratio. Tor user statistics are from > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html and the internet pop. per > country data from the world factbook site (l

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread Greg Troxel
I've put up some graphical world maps of the tor user to internet population per country ratio. Tor user statistics are from https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html and the internet pop. per country data from the world factbook site (latest data set is from 2009). To cut a long story

Re: [tor-talk] Country statistics details

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:47:17 +0100 "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" wrote: > i wanted to ask the list, what do you think about improving the > statistics for the country of use of Tor, so that there would also be > an additional regional details for large countries? We used to do this inside Vidalia, v

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Jon writes: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:49 PM, skep wrote: > >> To cut a long story short, here's the url: http://cxe7alag5fac2bln.onion > > Bad Link: > > Sorry, the page you were looking for could not be found > > Showing related results for: http://cxe7alag5fac2bln.onion/ Note the .onion. W

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:49:14 +0100 skep wrote: > I've put up some graphical world maps of the tor user to internet > population per country ratio. Tor user statistics are from > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html and the internet pop. per > country data from the world factbook site (latest

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and local TOR for Linux users

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:34:10 + Tor User wrote: > Are there plans to give Linux users the choice to run the installed > version of TOR instead of the TBB one? Currently, no. There have been many debates over how to handle system tor versus the tor shipped with tbb. To date, there is no clea

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:26:38 +0100 "5...@gmx.de" <5...@gmx.de> wrote: > 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? Because it's the default engine in firefox. We use the firefox source code as the base of Tor Browser. Also, the majority of users want google as their defa

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 19:25, Andrew Lewman wrote: > Also, the majority of users want google as their default engine due to the > quality of search results. The majority of users of Tor Browser want privacy and anonymity — I think it makes better sense to focus on that, and not on preference st

Re: [tor-talk] reply to: Tor survey

2012-01-12 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 01/12/2012 02:58 AM, Marco Valerio Barbera wrote: > Hello everyone, > > some of you received an email message from me a few hours ago about a > survey I am doing on the effectiveness on a DoS attack on the Tor > Network. I am writing you because I received a few, worried, private > messages ask

Re: [tor-talk] some maps on tor usage worldwide

2012-01-12 Thread skep
Am 12.01.2012 18:47, schrieb Andrew Lewman: > > How much work would it be to do daily average graphs? And > then turn this into an animated png over the months to show moving > daily average over time? > Hi, once I cleaned up my scripts and rewrite some parts for easier use it could be very well

Re: [tor-talk] TBB and local TOR for Linux users

2012-01-12 Thread Tor User0000
Hi, Thanks for the answer Andrew. > Likely, you're missing some torbutton protections. I don't understand what protection could be lost when using TBB Firefox together with a local TOR. Beside the control features that Vidalia provides nothing should be different. Firefox is using 127.0.0.1:9050

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Eitan Adler
Picking a random mail to reply to. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 19:25, Andrew Lewman wrote: >> Also, the majority of users want google as their default engine due to the >> quality of search results. > > The majority of users of Tor Browser wa

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2012-01-12 Thread Olivier C
Hello, On 12/29/2011 09:25 PM, Matthew R wrote: I am becoming increasingly perplexed about my Tor setup. Tor does not appear to run on start-up. I assume this because I cannot see it using ps aux | grep tor. My torrc is in /etc/tor/torrc with user and group set as 'root'. I run 'sudo tor' an

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 21:47, Eitan Adler wrote: > While Google does have less than ideal privacy practices they are > largely mitigated by the other anonymity preserving measures taken in > TBB. I am referring to something specific: the redirection URL that Google puts in its search results pag

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Javier Bassi
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > While Google does have less than ideal privacy practices they are > largely mitigated by the other anonymity preserving measures taken in > TBB. In fact the entire point of TBB is to prevent remote sites like > Google from being able to determi

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 23:31, Javier Bassi wrote: > But looking at this with a different angle. Google search performance > over Tor is horrible. Google instant (a so called "feature" that makes > a request with each letter you type  and starts giving you results > before you finished typing what

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Javier Bassi
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Google can also potentially use its “suggest” feature (on which > “instant” is based) to deanonymize users: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics. You raised a valid point. Although I have looked at the sent requests and they do

Re: [tor-talk] Country statistics details

2012-01-12 Thread Jim
Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:47:17 +0100 > "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" wrote: >> i wanted to ask the list, what do you think about improving the >> statistics for the country of use of Tor, so that there would also be >> an additional regional details for large countries? [snip]