[tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Scfith Rise up
I am just wondering why there has been a huge increase in .onion domains on http://metrics.torproject.org. Is this just an error or something else going on? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bi

Re: [tor-talk] Does Facebook Onion Work?

2016-02-18 Thread Pickfire
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:17:43PM +, Alec Muffett wrote: I just wanted to confirm that facebookcorewwwi is working and is under active development; we are currently working on scaling bandwidth so that we can support more people who want to use Facebook over Tor. The facebookcorewwwi URLs

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Pickfire
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:11:58AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: I am just wondering why there has been a huge increase in .onion domains on http://metrics.torproject.org. Is this just an error or something else going on? It might be true, I set up a .onion domain some time ago. And it might b

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
People also set up lots of onionsites for testing and other reasons. At one point, Andrew Lewman (Tor's past ED) scripted something to create 5000 onion addresses to see how long it would take to generate. While working on Stormy, I generated a few hundred onionsites just during the testing process

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Scfith Rise up
Here is the exact link: https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html it jumped from 4 to 6 in the past day or two. Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden services with the assumption that at least 1% are reporting in, the numbers are corre

[tor-talk] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread Nathaniel Suchy
Hello, I have some concerns regarding the Quora Community regarding Tor. People are describing Tor as a privacy tool but that's not the case. Tor alone simply keeps your IP Address anonymous. You need to use PGP to encrypt emails. I feel like there is a lot of misinformation put on Quora. There ar

Re: [tor-talk] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread Scfith Rise up
I believe the Internet is a misinformation machine. I don't think the solution is to somehow stop the tide, which would be impossible or only piecemeal (managing to answer every question on Quora). The best you can do is have the correct and complete information on virtual properties you own, li

Re: [tor-talk] Does Facebook Onion Work?

2016-02-18 Thread blobby
On 2016-02-17 23:17, Alec Muffett wrote: Hi All! I just wanted to confirm that facebookcorewwwi is working and is under active development; we are currently working on scaling bandwidth so that we can support more people who want to use Facebook over Tor. The facebookcorewwwi URLs use (and need

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: > Here is the exact link: > https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html > > it jumped from 4 to 6 in the past day or two. > > Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden >services w

Re: [tor-talk] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread me
On 18.02.16 15:11, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: There are 650 questions even regarding Tor. I am working on writing answers with technical information however it takes time. Hello. 650 questions --- I think you should be paid for this. :-) -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To un

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Alexandre Guillioud
Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd on software to maintain a HS pool. During dev, and at one point, i was emitting thousands of registration a day. 2016-02-18 16:51 GMT+01:00 Roger Dingledine : > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote: > > Here i

Re: [tor-talk] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread Nathaniel Suchy
I don't answer for money. If wanted money I'd be a security consultant not a writer on Quora. I answer questions because I care. I've gotten through 11 or 12 but I'm going to go back and correct them all (all 650). On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:01 AM wrote: > On 18.02.16 15:11, Nathaniel Suchy wrote

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Nathaniel Suchy
Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But new addresses are generated for each client. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM Alexandre Guillioud < guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not correlated (i'm too small in that pool), but i have workd on software > to main

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Collin Anderson
Last time there was such a large rate of growth in the Tor network, wasn't it the result of a botnet? On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But > new addresses are generated for each client. > On Thu, Feb

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Griffin Boyce
Sort of - though that was an increase in daily users from ~2m to ~5m, rather than an increase in onionsites. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse typos and e̳͖̲̮n̞̟̭̬̯c̞̘̹̜̰̯͍o̬͍̫d̢i͉͈̗͖̳̫ng̢͉̹̤ ̥̻̥ͅer̝͎̰̞̩͉̟r̠̼̩̬̱̹͔o̟̳r̫̜͎̥̹̀s̖̦. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Collin Anderson < col...@averysm

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread aka
Lots of fucking cryptolocker ransomware, generating an own onion and bitcoin address for every "customer". Scfith Rise up: > I am just wondering why there has been a huge increase in .onion domains on > http://metrics.torproject.org. Is this just an error or something else going > on? > -- to

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread justaguy
The large increase is probably caused by Locky. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/locky-crypto-ransomware-rides-in-on-malicious-word-document-macro/ http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/02/locky-new-ransomware-mimics-dridex-style-distribution/ As far as I know, each infection is a

Re: [tor-talk] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread Green Dream
When you're done with Quora maybe you could fix up Yahoo Answers too? https://xkcd.com/386/ -- 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] Concerns about the Quora Community regarding Tor

2016-02-18 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 2/18/16, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > Hello, > > I have some concerns regarding the Quora Community regarding Tor. People > are describing Tor as a privacy tool but that's not the case. Tor alone > simply keeps your IP Address anonymous. IP anonymity is only one view of Tor - this oversimplifies a

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But new addresses are generated for each client. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:49 AM Alexandre Guillioud < guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not correlated (i'

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy >> wrote: >> >>> Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember >>> the name. But new addresses are generated for each clien

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA
On 2016-02-19 01:40, Jeremy Rand wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: Could new people be using Onionchat/Torchat I can't remember the name. But new addresses ar

Re: [tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

2016-02-18 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/19/2016 01:44 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: > On 2016-02-19 01:40, Jeremy Rand wrote: On 02/19/2016 01:37 AM, > CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote: That chat program you are referring to would be ricochet IM > > Well, there was