Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Mirimir
On 01/16/2015 02:00 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Hi Josef, > > Exit nodes provide most value to the network, as they will also be able > to handle entry and middle traffic. > > As for porn: maybe the wiki page on porn legality [1] explains it. Also > note that this kind of traffic helps to mas

Re: [tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

2015-01-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/16/2015 5:28 PM, l.m wrote: TBB's new identity feature is considered more anonymity safe [1]. Vidalia's new identity doesn't consider how inter-tab traffic can identify you. It also doesn't consider how changes to the browser window make you unique (and trackable) across changed identities.

Re: [tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

2015-01-16 Thread l.m
"Joe Btfsplk" wrote: >I don't know that Vidalia is still considered "anonymity safe", in >later TBB versions - like 4.02, 4.03. >COMMENTS on that? >Can someone explain about using the following methods - mentioned earlier? > You might try adding TrackHostExits .. > You might also try AllowDo

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread l.m
"Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner" wrote:Long story short: What type of relay helps the TOR project more? Exit-Relay or Middle-relay? Is it really the "job" from TOR to provide an exit to the normal internet resources or should the focus be on hidden services? First, thank you for operating a Tor node. S

Re: [tor-talk] Where's longclaw

2015-01-16 Thread intrigeri
lu...@riseup.net wrote (16 Jan 2015 19:18:06 GMT) : > Riseup Networks has been getting DDoS'd sporadically these couple of days, > this > probably explains the outage of their dir auth. s/days/weeks/ Actually, that DDoS has started at the beginning of 31C3 :/ Cheers, -- intrigeri -- tor-talk m

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Dave Warren
On 2015-01-16 12:40, Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner wrote: The past days I made some short tcpdump traces to find out what people use TOR for. Well, it's kind of sad. A short analyse of the hostnames gave me the result: 80% Porn, 10% site crawling, 5% Wordpress comment spam and 5% "human" traffic. I d

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Josef, Exit nodes provide most value to the network, as they will also be able to handle entry and middle traffic. As for porn: maybe the wiki page on porn legality [1] explains it. Also note that this kind of traffic helps to mask other kinds of Tor traffic, essentially helping the netwo

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner
Hello Chris, apart from that I'm also running a bridge on a different IP. The point is really the relay. ~Josef Am 16.01.2015 um 21:54 schrieb Chris Dagdigian: > > With that philosophy of yours maybe you'd be better off running an > unlisted bridge ("bridge relay") ? Those seem aimed squarely at

Re: [tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Chris Dagdigian
With that philosophy of yours maybe you'd be better off running an unlisted bridge ("bridge relay") ? Those seem aimed squarely at helping people evade government censorship and national firewalls. May be more close to the type of service you'd like to be providing ? Josef 'veloc1ty' Stau

[tor-talk] What relay does really help the TOR project?

2015-01-16 Thread Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner
Hello List, I first heard from TOR after the leaks of snowden and started to read a lot about TOR but never used it - and I still don't use it (I just don't have the need for it). Before christmas I started a tor relay on my dedicated server. To be clear: Just a normal middle relay with 100 MBit/s

Re: [tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

2015-01-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 1/16/2015 5:41 AM, Rocky_Tor wrote: It might be the changing exit node from new identity. I did try changing identities. After numerous "tries", I was successful onto FoxNews. Then shortly that too changed and I was backed to being blocked. For me, TBB is sometimes blocked on sites where

Re: [tor-talk] Where's longclaw

2015-01-16 Thread luisg
On 2015-01-15 15:56, Damian Johnson wrote: Yup, longclaw is down. Its operator has been notified... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2015-January/005500.html On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:42 PM, l.m wrote: After missing signature it's now not listed in current consens

Re: [tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

2015-01-16 Thread grarpamp
Just add them to the wall here... https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlockingTor -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] GSOC 15

2015-01-16 Thread Damian Johnson
And please get involved early! We particularly love it when folks get involved before GSoC to help out and show how awesome they are. ;) On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Akhil Koul wrote: >> Hello >> >> I am a third year undergrad Comput

Re: [tor-talk] Cryptographic social networking project

2015-01-16 Thread carlo von lynX
Dear evervigilant, no we do not consider running Diaspora behind Tor since that is not a good idea in both terms of anonymity and scalability. Diaspora already has scalability issues, it would certainly not improve if each transaction travels across six Tor relays. And the way each Diaspora node ha

Re: [tor-talk] GSOC 15

2015-01-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Akhil Koul wrote: > Hello > > I am a third year undergrad Computer Engineering student from Pune > Institute of Computer Technology, India. My area of interest is in > Networking and Network Security. > I would like to get involved in Tor Community by contributing

Re: [tor-talk] Fox News bans my Tor Browser

2015-01-16 Thread Rocky_Tor
Hello l.m, Thursday, January 15, 2015, 4:42:47, you wrote: > You're probably the only one viewing that site using Tor. That would > explain why you didn't have any problem at first. Now they've noticed. Pity, that. I had been enjoying being able to read, daily, news from a dozen sources