[tor-talk] PirateBay Raided

2014-12-10 Thread grarpamp
http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/ http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-goes-worldwide-141209/ http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/ Perhaps this time it's related to TPB carrying the Sony GOP torrents?

Re: [tor-talk] PirateBay Raided

2014-12-10 Thread Andrew Roffey
grarpamp wrote: The TPB onion is also down: http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ I was under the impression that the above link was the old one and hasn't worked for some time, and this one is the newer link (but doesn't appear to be working either): http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ -- Andrew Roffey

[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — December 10th, 2014

2014-12-10 Thread Harmony
Tor Weekly News December 10th, 2014 Welcome to the forty-ninth issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly

[tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread Sieme
Hello, in the last times I noticed that using TorBrowser and the Tor network gives responses in very little time (sometimes about 100ms). How can be possible if the default HOP size is of at least 3 relay? Or it's not 3 relay anymore? How to check how many hops do a request? How to increase

Re: [tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread Daniel Roskams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I am not quite sure but I think that the hop size is hard-coded in to tor so you need to recompile and modify the code. On Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:15 AM, Sieme wrote: Hello, in the last times I noticed that using TorBrowser and the Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread Sieme
I think so too. But what's the default policy now? 3 hops? Or when the circuit is established it turns to a 1 hop circuit? Because 100ms seems to be a 1 hop circuit like a simple proxy, not an onion routing of 3 HOPS. I tried to recompile Tor sources, but it's harder than changing a variable,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread Griffin Boyce
Sieme wrote: I think so too. But what's the default policy now? 3 hops? It's three hops. 100ms is pretty short, but not ridiculously so. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to

Re: [tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:05:36PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote: Sieme wrote: I think so too. But what's the default policy now? 3 hops? It's three hops. 100ms is pretty short, but not ridiculously so. In particular, a lot of the slowness of Tor before (and still, if you get unlucky) is

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-10 Thread Jon Tullett
On 10 December 2014 at 01:22, andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Anything that any corporation touches is suspicious by the same measures, if you want to be sufficiently paranoid about it. You think there's no Chinese spyware in Huawei

Re: [tor-talk] Tor network too fast

2014-12-10 Thread grarpamp
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Sieme si...@hacari.com wrote: How to check how many hops do a request? Read control-spec.txt about how to connect to the controller and issue commands to watch the circuits and streams. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/ But what's the default