Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread grarpamp
> .If I told you it might give away my location. > Look up "major internet outage in US" for today. Right, which is why you tell us to search it and get the same location info. > Interesting, fios is a last mile solution from verizon. Not sure if that was just a 'neato' but, for those not in tha

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread Kyle Williams
FiOS in Oregon was fine, but then again Verizon sold it to Frontier. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:51 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "BlueStar88" > > Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:58 -0500 >> schrieb Larry : >> >> Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. >>> >> >> http://www

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:01:04 +0200 BlueStar88 wrote: > > Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. > > http://www.bucksright.com/verizon-fios-internet-outage-effects-mid-atlantic-states-7233 Interesting, fios is a last mile solution from verizon. Only seems to have affected

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread Larry
On 04/10/2012 07:01 PM, BlueStar88 wrote: > Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:58 -0500 > schrieb Larry : > > >> Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. > http://www.bucksright.com/verizon-fios-internet-outage-effects-mid-atlantic-states-7233 > Don't see any explination from them yet

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread BlueStar88
Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:58 -0500 schrieb Larry : > Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. http://www.bucksright.com/verizon-fios-internet-outage-effects-mid-atlantic-states-7233 -- BlueStar88 0x36150C86 (PGP) signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread Larry
Network issues happen so I don't see the point of this thread :) Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. On 04/10/2012 06:39 PM, andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: > .If I told you it might give away my location. > > Look up "major internet outage in US" for today. > > > On Tue,

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "BlueStar88" Am Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:58 -0500 schrieb Larry : Not to mention your google suggestion returned nothing recent. http://www.bucksright.com/verizon-fios-internet-outage-effects-mid-atlantic-states-7233 This NJ FiOS user had no interruption in service. -- Dave Multi-

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread andre76
.If I told you it might give away my location. Look up "major internet outage in US" for today. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012, at 07:30 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:16:56 +0200 > andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > > Skipping the details such as location, an HUGE ISP in the US had > > i

Re: [tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:16:56 +0200 andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Skipping the details such as location, an HUGE ISP in the US had > internet connection problems today. Many websites couldn't be > accessed. Sites that were of a political nature couldn't be reached. > Most search "engines" could be

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:17:39 -0400 Collin Anderson wrote: > This latest 'Iran is going to disconnect the Internet' paroxysm > originated from a year-old April Fools joke that was resubmitted to a > popular social media aggregator last week. The meme exploded across > Persian-language blogs within

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread Zebro kojos
> > > > GNU WGET is 100% safe. > > > > > > > > Except for DNS requests... That's why 'torify' / torsocks can be useful, I suppose :) it forces all traffic through Tor, afaik. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "miniBill" Il 10 aprile 2012 20:44, David H. Lipman ha scritto: From: "Joe Btfsplk" On 4/10/2012 9:32 AM, Tor User wrote: Hi, I think the most annoying thing using TOR are failed downloads. :-( You try to download a 5MB file and the download stops various times and you have t

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread miniBill
Il 10 aprile 2012 20:44, David H. Lipman ha scritto: > From: "Joe Btfsplk" > >> On 4/10/2012 9:32 AM, Tor User wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think the most annoying thing using TOR are failed downloads. :-( >>> >>> You try to download a 5MB file and the download stops various times and >>> you

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread BigTor
On Tue, April 10, 2012 6:42 pm, David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "Tor User" > >> Thanks. And I still need the http proxy. I cant do 127.0.0.1:9050, >> right? >> > > That's the Tor control port not the Proxy port. Advise is to install privoxy and edit the config file something like listen-addr

[tor-talk] Forget Iran- beware of US isp's

2012-04-10 Thread andre76
Skipping the details such as location, an HUGE ISP in the US had internet connection problems today. Many websites couldn't be accessed. Sites that were of a political nature couldn't be reached. Most search "engines" could be accessed. Imap and POP mail couldn't be retrieved. The very sites

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "Joe Btfsplk" On 4/10/2012 9:32 AM, Tor User wrote: Hi, I think the most annoying thing using TOR are failed downloads. :-( You try to download a 5MB file and the download stops various times and you have to start over and over again, crossing all fingers to get the file download

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "Tor User" Thanks. And I still need the http proxy. I cant do 127.0.0.1:9050, right? That's the Tor control port not the Proxy port. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp __

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 4/10/2012 9:32 AM, Tor User wrote: Hi, I think the most annoying thing using TOR are failed downloads. :-( You try to download a 5MB file and the download stops various times and you have to start over and over again, crossing all fingers to get the file downloaded. As Firefox does not s

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread Julian Wissmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Besides, just think of the economic impact this would have. They're already sacrificing their economy, disconnecting from the net would be economic suicide. That would completely lock them out from international trading of pretty much all the basics.

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread Collin Anderson
This latest 'Iran is going to disconnect the Internet' paroxysm originated from a year-old April Fools joke that was resubmitted to a popular social media aggregator last week. The meme exploded across Persian-language blogs within the day. Not only is it not posturing, it is factually incorrect.

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread Tor User0000
Thanks. And I still need the http proxy. I cant do 127.0.0.1:9050, right? On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:52 PM, David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "Zebro kojos" > > > If Tor is installed system-wide and the download site actually supports >> resumes (if it's http, it may not; if it's ftp, it's bound to

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "Zebro kojos" If Tor is installed system-wide and the download site actually supports resumes (if it's http, it may not; if it's ftp, it's bound to work afaik), you can just do torify wget -c http://site.com/file.ext or... wget --execute=http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ http://si

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread Ahmed Hassan
> it would have a very negative impact on the economy > of the country, isen't it ? They will not be able to use American services like visa and Mastercard, Oh wait!!! On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM, HardKor wrote: > If Iran realy do that, it would have a very negative impact on the economy >

Re: [tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread Zebro kojos
If Tor is installed system-wide and the download site actually supports resumes (if it's http, it may not; if it's ftp, it's bound to work afaik), you can just do torify wget -c http://site.com/file.ext If it breaks (or you need to stop - ctrl+c), you can resume later on by executing that same c

[tor-talk] Download manager

2012-04-10 Thread Tor User0000
Hi, I think the most annoying thing using TOR are failed downloads. :-( You try to download a 5MB file and the download stops various times and you have to start over and over again, crossing all fingers to get the file downloaded. As Firefox does not support very good download management, its a

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread HardKor
If Iran realy do that, it would have a very negative impact on the economy of the country, isen't it ? On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:40 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:46:00AM +0300, zebro.ko...@gmail.com wrote > 0.8K bytes in 20 lines about: > : Perhaps there are more sources with more deta

Re: [tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread andrew
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:46:00AM +0300, zebro.ko...@gmail.com wrote 0.8K bytes in 20 lines about: : Perhaps there are more sources with more detailed/sourced info. The source story a few places are quoting seems to be http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/325415/20120409/iran-internet-intranet-censor

[tor-talk] 'Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative'

2012-04-10 Thread Zebro kojos
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/iran-plans-to-unplug-the-internet-launch-its-own-clean-alternative.ars Perhaps there are more sources with more detailed/sourced info. Thought this was relevant. I wonder whether they plan / the idea would be to completely detach from any foreign c