Re: [tor-talk] Accessing hidden service from same instance

2013-02-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
Am Samstag, 9. Februar 2013 schrieb grarpamp : I'm planning to do the same thing for measuring hidden service performance in Torperf. there's a quite high probability that you're using the same entry guard for the actual connection between client and service. For similar HS tests I

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Hendrik Neumann
Small update: I've snail-mailed them a letter based on what Moritz had posted. They replied with a standardized letter without even commenting on my statements. It's basically saying Last chance to pay or we'll go to court. So I'm a little unsure whether or not it's now time to actually consult

[tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
It's my understanding they are segregating Tor and other proxies under a non-ISO country, city, etc code. Besides not being technically what GeoIP is supposed to do for locating and breaking all of that context, it's showing arbitrary 'anti-spam/badness' mindset. Perhaps GeoIP/Maxmind/etc are

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Hendrik Neumann
Hey Joe, thanks for sharing! They're demanding €450 compensation for the alleged sharing of the movie via BitTorrent. Plus €506 lawyer's fees. So in total we're talking about €956,- FOX is working with a German company, ipoque GmbH, that monitors filesharing platforms. So they've logged my IP

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Simon Brereton
If they are going to answer your mail with a proforma reply, just resend it. Recorded delivery is a good idea too. And contact your local Piratpartei. Simon On Monday, February 4, 2013, Hendrik Neumann wrote: Hey guys, have been lurking here for a while, but now I need some advice on how

Re: [tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
least cause them to distribute a version of their datasets that retain the original locations. I asked their (first-level) support a few months ago, and they said they're considering providing data sets without A1 codes some time this year. Any wiki'ers on the list want to wiki things like

Re: [tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11.02.2013 23:28, grarpamp wrote: Years ago I thought there were some crowdsourced IP location projects. While not being commercial where ISP's would perhaps be more inclined to input their provisioning tables, they covered userland's knowledge and self-submittals pretty good. These

[tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi! TorBirdy 0.1.0 is now out; we think it is the the best release so far and we encourage you to upgrade. We welcome you to read more about this release and to comment on the release on the Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torbirdy-our-first-beta-release This release is the first

[tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread bvvq
Hi tor-talk, I'm not sure where else to ask this question so I give my apologies if this is off-topic. Please feel free to suggest a better list/forum/website. I've had a personal email account with GMail since it was invite-only, but lately I've read a few stories about Google's use of our

[tor-talk] torsocks 1.3 is tagged and released

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi, After quite a long development cycle, we've tagged torsocks 1.3 today: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git/shortlog/refs/tags/1.3 We believe that this release fixes most of the outstanding torsocks issues. We also also hope that it merges all of the various patches that were being

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Nathan Freitas
Thanks for the update from a happy birdy user! It has been very useful on my recent global travels, since many of the free networks I come across actually block non-web ports. Also as the person who does all of the GP email support, I am happy to not broadcast my actual IP in mail headers. At

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Nathan Freitas: Thanks for the update from a happy birdy user! It has been very useful on my recent global travels, since many of the free networks I come across actually block non-web ports. Also as the person who does all of the GP email support, I am happy to not broadcast my actual IP in

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Nathan Freitas
Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: I've experienced networks that were this terrible and perhaps worse; what I've found is that I'd rather have Thunderbird fail closed and safely so. Were you using IMAP? Yes. The issue I have with POP3 is that I want to also access the mail from my

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Mysterious Flyer
Hello bvvq: Gmail is horrid. The only way I can think of to get Google of my path is to encrypt all the e-mails I send through them. The only problem is that I can't get anyone I know to download the software they would need to decrypt. I'm pretty sure the only way around all that is to get a

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Griffin Boyce
There are some good ones out there, but if you're using Tor to create the account and login, you should know that many have started blocking Tor users (or deactivating their accounts in the case of Yahoo). Size could also be an issue, but if you're deleting them off the server on download, then

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
* Privacy-conscious (don't parse my emails to target advertisements to Anonymous-/encryption-type services offered by HushMail or Safe-Mail That rules out gmail, yahoo, hotmail/live. Few services will state they don't, and statements are no guarantee. Privacy (OpenPGP, etc) is your

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 6:47 PM, bvvq wrote: Hi tor-talk, I'm not sure where else to ask this question so I give my apologies if this is off-topic. Please feel free to suggest a better list/forum/website. I've had a personal email account with GMail since it was invite-only, but lately I've read a

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 9:51 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: There are some good ones out there, but if you're using Tor to create the account and login, you should know that many have started blocking Tor users (or deactivating their accounts in the case of Yahoo). Size could also be an issue, but if you're

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 10:04 PM, grarpamp wrote: * Privacy-conscious (don't parse my emails to target advertisements to Anonymous-/encryption-type services offered by HushMail or Safe-Mail That rules out gmail, yahoo, hotmail/live. Few services will state they don't, and statements are no guarantee.