Re: [tor-talk] torbrowser vs. twitter picture upload?

2017-04-12 Thread Nima Fatemi
nusenu: > Hi, > > everytime I try to upload a twitter profile picture the dialog with > resize and zoom opens and after clicking apply I get "sucessfully uploaded" > but the resulting picture "cannot be displayed because it contains errors". > > Did you upload your twitter profile picture with to

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Linux_don't extract to root

2017-04-12 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 04/12/2017 03:23 AM, Jonathan Marquardt wrote: Both methods (putting apps into global dirs vs. putting them into home dirs) have their own advantages and disadvantages. Jonathan - thanks. Other than automatically updating, what are the advantages of installing to /home/user - or somewher

[tor-talk] "Is this a Ubuntu-based Botnet deploying Tor Relays and Bridges?"

2017-04-12 Thread nusenu
I put together a bit of information about the "UbuntuCore" named relays: https://medium.com/@nusenu/is-this-a-ubuntu-based-botnet-deploying-tor-relays-and-bridges-b4ce1a612039 If you have any insides or comments I'd like to hear from you. -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/

Re: [tor-talk] Suspicious rise in direct users connection from Israel (from ~9k to >100k)

2017-04-12 Thread Lolint
As predicted the spike is now visible in the global graph. Also compare these two: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-11-12&end=2017-01-23&country=ae&events=off https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-01-12&end=2017-04-11&country

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Linux_don't extract to root

2017-04-12 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:18:38PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > I'm not "doing" anything with /home permissions - it's Linux defaults. > AFAIK, once a user logs into their 'nix acct, anything that writes to (most) > files in /home can do so - w/o any prompting. I think the confusion comes from the

Re: [tor-talk] Suspicious rise in direct users connection from Israel (from ~9k to >100k)

2017-04-12 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:45 AM, nusenu wrote: > I'm wondering why that spike of new users from IL does not show in the > overall user graphs. Though perhaps unlikely, especially without it being publicly known, it is possible for certain demographic cultural / religious / industry "apps" to ari