[tor-talk] Hidden service persistent connections

2019-05-17 Thread Memory Vandal
Hi, Are client connections to a hidden service .onion address that do not disconnect for hours safe? It may be a big file download or multiple keep-alive transactions that uses the established connection over and over for lets say few hours. If its not safe then what should be the max time a con

Re: [tor-talk] Data collection by Tor Browser

2019-05-17 Thread Conrad Rockenhaus
npdflr I'm sorry to top post, but it was the easiest way to get my message across. If you're worried about information leakage, have you perhaps looked into running Tails from a USB stick or on a VM? Thanks, Conrad On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 4:49 AM Georg Koppen wrote: > > npdflr: > > Thanks Geor

[tor-talk] Which companies/individuals can gather data while using the internet?

2019-05-17 Thread npdflr
This is a not a completely technical discussion but I think it helps to get a clear picture and ultimately one can know (or atleast try to know) which companies/individuals may gather personal data and then one can make decisions accordingly. (I have listed a hardware or software and the next

[tor-talk] Reminder: 0.3.4 reaches end-of-life on June 10

2019-05-17 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi! This is a reminder that we're going to stop supporting Tor 0.3.4 on June 10, per our policy and schedule at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases . After this date, we won't do any more security fixes or bugfixes for 0.3.4. If you need the latest