[tor-talk] Verifying signatures

2012-03-20 Thread Achter Lieber
Hullo (',') In light of some fairly recent postings about making it easier to verify signatures on new Tor downloads, I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of a percentage (if there is at all) of new downloads that are, indeed, or have been, compromised Tor Browser Bundles? And

Re: [tor-talk] EVIL bug Linux Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.35-8)

2012-03-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 19, 2012, at 7:11 PM, clarissabryant wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:51:17 -, m...@tormail.net wrote: Wow, Anonymous! Wow, what an amazing, bug. Drama. Clearly exposing your own browsing on your own file system on your own computer is a conspiracy of epic proportions. If the

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-20 Thread tor
On 20/03/12 06:28, Number Six wrote: LBE Privacy Guard doesn't have a lot of info about it or any source code available, and for some reason requests Phone State and Identity permissions. It could be recording who you call and using it for ad targeting.. Of course either DroidWall or LBE

Re: [tor-talk] EVIL bug Linux Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.35-8)

2012-03-20 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/19/2012 1:11 PM, clarissabryant wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:51:17 -, m...@tormail.net wrote: Wow, Anonymous! Wow, what an amazing, bug. Drama. Clearly exposing your own browsing on your own file system on your own computer is a conspiracy of epic proportions. If the existence of

Re: [tor-talk] EVIL bug Linux Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.35-8)

2012-03-20 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:54:34 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... clarissab, I can't tell what you meant by Drama. Could you expand some on the HUGE conspiracy? How would it be possible for Tor, Firefox Vidalia NOT to talk over localhost? Why is this a conspiracy? He thinks doing communication

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-20 Thread Mr Dash Four
Here's the app on the google market: [...etc...] For someone who isn't affiliated with this piece of closed-source software (thus, questionable credentials as far as people's privacy is concerned) you seem pretty determined to shove it down everyone's throat quite intensely!

Re: [tor-talk] Verifying signatures

2012-03-20 Thread Sebastian G. bastik.tor
Achter Lieber, 20.03.2012 07:46: I have to use internet cafe computers and cannot install GPG on them to help me even learn how to verify the sigs, so all I have available is getting the new version onto a USB and running it from there with my fingers crossed. There's GnuPT Portable. It

[tor-talk] Setting up Tor on Ubuntu

2012-03-20 Thread Simon Brereton
Hi Let me apologise at the outset for ignoring the TBB. I plan on doing so later, but as this is my first experiment with Tor, I would like to try and educate myself and that means doing things the hard way. Sadly, the hard way isn't working. I'm running Ubuntu Maverick with a 2.6.35-32 kernel