Re: [tor-talk] Number of onions online

2016-08-22 Thread Nurmi, Juha
Hi, The number of onion services is very interesting question. I have been researching onions in several research projects and I am writing papers about this. Meanwhile, TorProject provides excellent onion stats too, see https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html https://blog.to

Re: [tor-talk] Did Australian Authorities hack (US) computers with Tor's help?

2016-08-22 Thread Georg Koppen
tort...@arcor.de: > Hi! > > I found two articles which may have something in common. 1. Some Tor users > (29.000) got deanonymized by authorities while up/downloading childporn. 2. > Someone claims that "Tor suddenly dump over 30 megabloats of steaming faeces > onto a file system on exit". The

[tor-talk] List messages marked as spam by gmail

2016-08-22 Thread David Balažic
Hi! Lately (like last 10 days) I see many messages (more than usual) on the list marked as spam by gmail (using the gmail.com web interface). The reason given is most often: - (this message) It has a from address in foo.com but has failed foo.com's required tests for authentication. - It's simi

[tor-talk] Advanced Deanonymization Attacks

2016-08-22 Thread Patrick Schleizer
A number of advanced deanonymization attacks. These do not just apply to Whonix, but any anonymity system. Some are also general security issues. Rather than exploiting bugs in the hypervisor to break out, some of these attacks rely on the design of the underlying hardware to bypass privilege sepa

[tor-talk] My relay is not showing up in Atlas

2016-08-22 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 A little more than 48 hours ago, I brought up a new relay called sputnik1. For some reason, even though the logs show no problems, the relay simply isn't showing up in Atlas. It's an exit relay with moderately high bandwidth. Oddly, the log also show

[tor-talk] [Whonix Project] Looking for Python Devs

2016-08-22 Thread bancfc
Hello. We at the Whonix Project are looking for volunteers with a knowledge of Python to help us out with some tasks. If you like what we do or like to help out Free Software projects in general, please take a look at the task list [1] and introduce yourself. [1] https://forums.whonix.org/t/c

Re: [tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

2016-08-22 Thread Sarah Alawami
Nah I'll just wait to see if I get any more complaints. I think it was torrent stuff using it. I have receed nothinge else from them so far and I assume that the problem has ben resolved. I guess I could go log diving if I'm wanting something to do. Lol! > On Aug 21, 2016, at 8:58 PM, Mirimir

Re: [tor-talk] List messages marked as spam by gmail

2016-08-22 Thread Dave Warren
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016, at 11:09 AM, David Balažic wrote: > Hi! > > Lately (like last 10 days) I see many messages (more than usual) on > the list marked as spam by gmail (using the gmail.com web interface). > > The reason given is most often: > - (this message) It has a from address in foo.com bu

Re: [tor-talk] List messages marked as spam by gmail

2016-08-22 Thread grarpamp
On 8/22/16, Dave Warren wrote: >> Is it just "a nothing" or is something going on? I've pulled around 100 tor-* messages out of spam the past couple weeks. Unless TPI changed something, gmail's just broken again. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change o

[tor-talk] Making sense of the BADDECISION Program

2016-08-22 Thread bancfc
Never mind that it took three years (!) to be published, the parent article from TheIntercept is lacking on the technical side. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3031639/07-Introduction-to-BADDECISION-Redacted.pdf Are they already a part of the LAN whose computers they are exploiting?

Re: [tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

2016-08-22 Thread Mike Perry
Sarah Alawami: > Hello to all. Sadly I have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 > hours, as I received a copyright violation and I don't want any network > restrictions placed on me as I want the 150mbps speed. > > Sorry to all who were using it, but yeah there it is. Was this a DMCA

[tor-talk] CSEC's (aka Canadian NSA) Work on Tor

2016-08-22 Thread William
Hello everyone, I don't think this is of interest to most people, but I filed an access to information request with CSEC (often referred to as the Canadian NSA) last month in the course of our advocacy work, regarding its involvement when it comes to Tor and the Tor Project. They sent me a lot of