[tor-talk] UNIX Admin

2014-12-22 Thread Denise Mangold
Hi, I'm just putting this out there. I'm more than happy to help admin any UNIX boxes for the TOR project. I think TOR is valuable and anything I can do to help I'm happy to. I'm also pretty good at writing tech docs. Denise -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscr

Re: [tor-talk] Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

2014-12-22 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Generally some criteria for DirAuths are people who are trusted by the community, aren't raided very often/have legal troubles/could be legally compromised, people with an extensive understanding of how Tor works and people who can secure their syste

Re: [tor-talk] Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

2014-12-22 Thread Tyler Durden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-12-22 23:20, Mirimir wrote: > On 12/22/2014 02:18 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:03:04PM -0700, Mirimir wrote: >>> In light of recent posts from Thomas White and some node operators, I'm >>> wondering whether "seiz

Re: [tor-talk] Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

2014-12-22 Thread Mirimir
On 12/22/2014 02:18 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:03:04PM -0700, Mirimir wrote: >> In light of recent posts from Thomas White and some node operators, I'm >> wondering whether "seizure" might be looking more like "compromise". >> There might be a range of attacks, from DD

Re: [tor-talk] Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

2014-12-22 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:03:04PM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > In light of recent posts from Thomas White and some node operators, I'm > wondering whether "seizure" might be looking more like "compromise". > There might be a range of attacks, from DDoSing to rooting, and perhaps > even the covert insta

Re: [tor-talk] Possible upcoming attempts to disable the Tor network

2014-12-22 Thread Mirimir
On 12/19/2014 03:19 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate > our network in the next few days through the seizure of specialized > servers in the network called directory authorities. (Directory > authorities help Tor clients learn the

Re: [tor-talk] Warning: Do NOT use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation

2014-12-22 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Brief update to the situation. Having further investigated and followed up some information leads, we (for now) are excluding direct law enforcement involvement in the events of yesterday with my server cluster, but we do have further information th

Re: [tor-talk] Anonbib November papers without papers

2014-12-22 Thread Seth David Schoen
Sebastian G. writes: > Anonbib's header states "Selected Papers in Anonymity" and I have no > clue who selects them. Historically I thought mostly Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson; it looks like there have been a number of other contributions over the years, though! https://gitweb.torproject

Re: [tor-talk] Anonbib November papers without papers

2014-12-22 Thread Sebastian G.
22.12.2014, 18:47 s7r: > hey Sebastian, Hey, let's call you s7r, There might be a misunderstanding. I did not update anonbib. I just looked for the papers, copied the bibtex from the anonbib website into an email and added the link to the PDF in the blank section, before sending it to the email a

Re: [tor-talk] Anonbib November papers without papers

2014-12-22 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey Sebastian, Many thanks for taking care of this! anonbib is an important resource. Could you please also add one more entry and include this research paper with date September 2014? I am trying for over 1 week to find time to do it but need to lea

Re: [tor-talk] Anonbib November papers without papers

2014-12-22 Thread Sebastian G.
22.12.2014, 13:35 Philipp Winter: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Sebastian G. wrote: >> while there are more pressing issue, or not I had noticed previously >> that all papers on anonbib from November 2014 have no papers. Well >> November wasn't over, but now it is December. >> >> Up

Re: [tor-talk] Warning: Do NOT use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation

2014-12-22 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey all, So after one crazy night, some more information is slowly coming to light. 1. Right now I am happy that whatever happened is not the result of a seizure as access to the servers has now been restored to me. 2. The USB device is from the K

Re: [tor-talk] Anonbib November papers without papers

2014-12-22 Thread Philipp Winter
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Sebastian G. wrote: > while there are more pressing issue, or not I had noticed previously > that all papers on anonbib from November 2014 have no papers. Well > November wasn't over, but now it is December. > > Up to August 2014 papers have papers "attac