Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — April 2nd, 2014

2014-04-03 Thread krishna e bera
Just missing the news deadline, a report on Tails' contribution to journalism: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/help-support-little-known-privacy-tool-has-been-critical-journalists-reporting-nsa signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - to

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Perry
nb.linux: > Mike Perry: > > anonymous coward: > >> My special concern is about the baseband CPU. The baseband potentially > >> allows full access to the whole system. And the baseband is closed source. > >> > >> Thus, the baseband is the perfect trojan for "them". I asked a phone > >> maker that ma

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Perry
David Rajchenbach-Teller: > As a side-note, there is a will to make FirefoxOS very safe, but as far > as I know, very few people work on this actively at the moment. If you > are interested in contributing to this effort, I can try and find you a > good interlocutor. I looked into this and made co

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-04-03 Thread lee colleton
I no longer have access to the machine where this issue was produced. I've advised the owner to reimage their system. I'll file the ticket all the same with these details in case someone else reproduces it or it recurs after reinstall. --lee On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-04-03 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:09 PM, lee colleton wrote: > Additionally, a popup appears during the debug launch which says "Profile > Missing: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or > inaccessible." That message doesn't appear with the launch via GUI and also > the message about

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-relays] Is Kaspersky right to be concerned?

2014-04-03 Thread ra
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 04:30:42 grarpamp wrote: > Given current onion discovery mechanics as in the paper, public vs. > private is defined largely by the access restrictions operators put > up, not by whether they posted the address somewhere or not. > (descriptor-cookie and stealth auth may ha

Re: [tor-talk] Plans to bring safe Firefox to Android?

2014-04-03 Thread Nathan Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 06:52 PM, anonymous coward wrote: > to me the Orweb simply is not usable at all. No tabbed browsing, no > bookmarks. It was by choice that we kept it simple as possible. You open a link, browser some, close the browser, and it goes away.

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread Nathan Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 07:01 PM, anonymous coward wrote: > Many people use TOR or secure ways to chat on smartphones. > > The last months have reveiled how hard secret services attack our > phones. > > This leads me to the question, how secure are our smartph

Re: [tor-talk] Plans to bring safe Firefox to Android?

2014-04-03 Thread Nathan Freitas
On 04/03/2014 06:21 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:52:45PM +, anonymous.cow...@posteo.de wrote > 1.9K bytes in 0 lines about: > : Thus, is there plans to create a Firefox for mobile that is safe to use > : with Tor? Just like the browser bundle for desktop systems. > >

Re: [tor-talk] Plans to bring safe Firefox to Android?

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:52:45PM +, anonymous.cow...@posteo.de wrote 1.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Thus, is there plans to create a Firefox for mobile that is safe to use : with Tor? Just like the browser bundle for desktop systems. Guardian recommends using Firefox with Proxymob. They don

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
As a side-note, there is a will to make FirefoxOS very safe, but as far as I know, very few people work on this actively at the moment. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, I can try and find you a good interlocutor. Cheers, David On 4/3/14 10:53 AM, nb.linux wrote: > In case yo

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread antispam06
Mike Perry: >> Many people use TOR or secure ways to chat on smartphones. >> >> The last months have reveiled how hard secret services attack our phones. >> >> This leads me to the question, how secure are our smartphones at all? > > Not very, or not at all, depending on your threat model. That m

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread nb.linux
Mike Perry: > anonymous coward: >> My special concern is about the baseband CPU. The baseband potentially >> allows full access to the whole system. And the baseband is closed source. >> >> Thus, the baseband is the perfect trojan for "them". I asked a phone >> maker that makes "cryptophones" what