[tor-talk] What is Design?

2016-03-14 Thread Spencer
Hi, krishna e bera: fun My only intention. What are you trying to say about "Design" and Tor? I often come across the POV that designers aren't developers, and developers aren't designers. This is untrue, if only because Torpeople are making designations about the development of To

[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News -- March 14th, 2016

2016-03-14 Thread TWN
Tor Weekly News March 14th, 2016 Welcome to the 3rd issue in 2016 of TWN, the weekly or biweekly collection of

Re: [tor-talk] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Tasker
Hi, > So am I running torsocks ssh to the VPS and then ssh -D to 8080 at the same time? As before you're using Tsocks to route your SSH connection out over Tor. Alternatively, if you've got TransPort running (in the example on 9050) you can pass the following to SSH to achieve the same -o Pr

Re: [tor-talk] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread blobby
The reason, simply, is that I have never used the -D of ssh before! So am I running torsocks ssh to the VPS and then ssh -D to 8080 at the same time? Why would the local SOCKS run on 8080? Tor runs, I think, on 9150? I'm sure you're right but could you please spell it out for me. Thanks! On

Re: [tor-talk] How was the user agent decided?

2016-03-14 Thread poly
Tor Browser uses the "extended support release" (ESR) of Firefox. ESR is designed mainly for organizations that need to deploy Firefox and have a focus on stability. The reason I believe Tor Browser is based on the ESR build is that it is updated less often, allowing more time for adding privacy-e

Re: [tor-talk] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Tasker
> ) download a browser that allows access from the command line e.g. Lynx (not TBB). There are potentially valid reasons for doing it this way, but is there a reason you're not thinking of doing ssh -D 8080 myvps And then pointing (say) Firefox at the local socks port on 8080. (i.e. all steps th

[tor-talk] Torsocks plus ssh plus command line browser - does this idea make sense?

2016-03-14 Thread blobby
Let's say I want to access a website and appear to be from country X. I can't use Tor because there are no exit nodes for Country X. Can I: a) buy a VPS from a hosting company that provides an IP that is from Country X? b) use torsocks to login to my VPS via ssh. c) download a browser that

[tor-talk] How was the user agent decided?

2016-03-14 Thread blobby
User agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 AIUI, NT 6.1 is Windows 7 and current Firefox version is 44.0. Also, does that mean that TBB used an "old" version of Firefox? -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other

[tor-talk] Vidalia and Privoxy completely outdated with TorBrowser package?

2016-03-14 Thread Ben Stover
In the past I setup Tor with separate Vidalia and Privoxy tools. When I use now TorBrowser package then there is no need to install them any more. At least it is not visible any more. Are Vidalia and Privoxy completely outdated and deprecated? Ben -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists