Re: [tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Артур Истомин
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 12:54:55AM -0600, Mirimir wrote: On 06/02/2015 12:37 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:06:47 +, Mirimir wrote: ... DuckDuckgo's search results are pretty much useless, a waste of time. In my experience ddg got a lot better recently (year-ish); I

Re: [tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Mirimir
On 06/02/2015 12:37 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:06:47 +, Mirimir wrote: ... DuckDuckgo's search results are pretty much useless, a waste of time. In my experience ddg got a lot better recently (year-ish); I stayed there during the startpage default. Seldom needed to

Re: [tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:54:55 +, Mirimir wrote: ... But what do you think of the current Disconnect default? Currently, I just use it (like the familiar google look). Will see when I seriously start missing the ddg shortcuts ('!imdb tom hanks', '!w relativity' etc). It's odd that the ddg

Re: [tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20150531 released

2015-06-02 Thread benjamin barber
How much memory does this usually take? On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host

[tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Ryan Carboni
Disconnect search allows Tor users to search privately using their favorite search engine. This service costs money and so we’re asking users to help keep our servers running and the search product free. Your contributions will be used exclusively to cover the monthly server costs

Re: [tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Colin Arnott
I can confirm the ddg hs unreliability, and frequently end up using their clearnet site as a fallback. Very odd that one is down and the other not, but I would imagine this is related to issues scalability and operating a large public hidden service. p.s. though facebookcorewwi.onion has never

[tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20150531 released

2015-06-02 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by hardening the kernel and

[tor-talk] ng-rend-spec and very public services

2015-06-02 Thread l.m
Hi, So I was thinking, perhaps incorrectly, that ng-rend-spec doesn't do enough to protect very public onion services. Sure, there are advantages to the proposed changes. What if the adversary is also someone who can derive the credentials? Encrypted descriptors don't do much if you can throw

Re: [tor-talk] Invaded by disconnect.me

2015-06-02 Thread Andreas Krey
On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:06:47 +, Mirimir wrote: ... DuckDuckgo's search results are pretty much useless, a waste of time. In my experience ddg got a lot better recently (year-ish); I stayed there during the startpage default. Seldom needed to go to google. But then, you can just select what