[tor-talk] USENIX Enigma 2019 - Where Is the Web Closed?

2019-02-23 Thread Lars Noodén
Sadia Afroz, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), mentioned in her talk that it appears that some site owners are accidentally blocking Tor due to settings in Cloudflare "many people block countries without even knowing that they are blocking countries. we talked to

Re: [tor-talk] circpathbias.c : Your Guard vs The Guard

2018-12-18 Thread Lars Noodén
On 12/18/18 10:07 AM, Kevin Burress wrote: > How about "A Guard" Yes, "A guard" would also reduce the potential for confusion, and it's even shorter. The log error should clearly convey the information of whose guard is being noted. The phrase "Your guard" very strongly suggests that the user is

[tor-talk] circpathbias.c : Your Guard vs The Guard

2018-12-14 Thread Lars Noodén
The log messages "Your Guard" make produce confusion, Looking at the latest code base I see the string "Your Guard" recurring. Does this string actually refer to a Guard the user is responsible for operating and maintaining? Or does it refer to the guard the Tor client is connecting to on its

[tor-talk] HTTP/3 on UDP and no TCP

2018-11-12 Thread Lars Noodén
I noticed this post about what is possibly the next unavoidable big change in web browsing: "HTTP/3" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/11/11/http-3/ This looks official, but even if the move is unofficial, if Google and Facebook adopt it, it is a defacto necessity. So, is the

Re: [tor-talk] Launching new tabs in existing TBB from the shell

2018-02-17 Thread Lars Noodén
On 02/17/2018 10:17 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: >... > That's surprising. I just tested it with a fresh Tor Browser > installation on 64-bit Linux and it worked without an error. A couple > > questions: > - What version of Tor Browser are you using? > - Press the Alt key, then select the Help

Re: [tor-talk] Launching new tabs in existing TBB from the shell

2018-02-17 Thread Lars Noodén
On 02/17/2018 07:52 PM, Rusty Bird wrote: > Lars Nood�n: >> I've looked around a bit and wonder how to launch new tabs from the >> shell into a running TBB instance. > > $ ./Browser/start-tor-browser --allow-remote # for the master process > $ ./Browser/start-tor-browser --allow-remote --new-tab

[tor-talk] Launching new tabs in existing TBB from the shell

2018-02-17 Thread Lars Noodén
I've looked around a bit and wonder how to launch new tabs from the shell into a running TBB instance. I see how to do it to create a new instance but would like to work with one that is already running. Also which documentation should I check for this info? /Lars -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Anonymous SSH Hack.

2016-09-12 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/12/2016 03:54 PM, Ben Tasker wrote: >... > CheckHostIP=no > > Don't do a DNS lookup of the host, the Tor exit node's going to do that > anyway, and again, the queries will be observable by your ISP I'm thinking that the use of ProxyCommand makes that redundant? The manual page for

[tor-talk] TBB on Public Stations

2016-04-12 Thread Lars Noodén
What are the thoughts on the appropriateness or usefulness of the Tor Browser Bundle on public desktop computers? I ask for two reasons. I notice that there are no packages (APT or RPM) or for that matter repositories containing the TBB. That means that each machine with TBB must be updated

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare blog post

2016-04-01 Thread Lars Noodén
On 04/01/2016 02:19 AM, tor_t...@arcor.de wrote: > Hi Tor Talkers, > > what does "malicious Tor use" mean? I would be only too pleased to > say my surfing isn't malicious but then i can't tell w/o its > definition. Maybe the definition of malicious traffic is those that don't turn on javascript

[tor-talk] Sites blocking Tor

2016-01-20 Thread Lars Noodén
I checked the FAQ and it is unclear about precisely what to do about sites that gratuitously block Tor. Just recently I noticed that www.justice.gov blocks Tor. For example the URL http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/exhibits/1332.pdf and the search function at the site's start.

[tor-talk] Inline PDFs in TBB 5.0.3

2015-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
I notice in the Tor Browser Bundle 5.0.3 (based on Mozilla Firefox 38.3.0) on Ubuntu AMD64 that PDFs are displayed inline. I had the impression that is unsafe. Is that best turned off? Is so, how? Regards, Lars -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [tor-talk] FreeBSD PF (firewall) ruleset

2013-11-12 Thread Lars Noodén
On 11/12/2013 05:38 AM, M C J wrote: I'm unable to connect to Tor with PF enabled. Without PF, Tor connects and runs fine (with Privoxy). Soon as PF is enabled, Tor will either disconnect if already running, or fail to connect if I try. I've used a very basic pf.conf ruleset:

Re: [tor-talk] Project Gutenberg

2013-10-31 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/31/2013 09:07 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: AFAIK you don't need permission for creating a mirror. After all, the works are in the Public Domain. [snip] The original works are in the public domain, but the new, electronic editions may not be. But either way, their issue is with spidering

[tor-talk] Bandwidth Scheduling for Relays

2013-09-12 Thread Lars Noodén
I have a feature request. It would be nice for a future version of Tor to allow scheduling at least one alternate values for RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst for a span of time. This would allow relays to operate at higher speeds when their host network is normally less active. One

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-27 Thread Lars Noodén
On 27.08.2013 17:13, lee colleton wrote: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Tor%2C%20TOR%20browser%2C%20piratebrowser%2C%20date=today%203-mcmpt=q That link seems partially broken. Google is not showing me it in English even though the browser preferences are for English. Is that not

[tor-talk] Etags

2013-08-26 Thread Lars Noodén
This etag trick seems to work ok even against TBB: http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/ Should TBB have the option to scrub E-tags? Regards, /Lars -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to

Re: [tor-talk] Etags

2013-08-26 Thread Lars Noodén
On 26.08.2013 17:41, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 26.08.2013 14:16, Lars Noodén wrote: This etag trick seems to work ok even against TBB: Are you sure? It is by design that you can track TBB users within one session. Did you try New Identity, and restarting TBB? https://trac.torproject.org

[tor-talk] log heartbeat update on demand?

2013-08-16 Thread Lars Noodén
At intervals Tor posts some status updates to the system log file: Aug 15 19:56:40 relay4 Tor[26018]: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 6:00 hours, with 10 circuits open. I've sent 2.11 MB and received 7.18 MB. I see that Tor takes different actions upon catching various signals

Re: [tor-talk] Tor security advisory: Old Tor Browser Bundles vulnerable

2013-08-05 Thread Lars Noodén
On 08/05/2013 06:13 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: And finally, be aware that many other vectors remain for vulnerabilities in Firefox. JavaScript is one big vector for attack, but many other big vectors exist, like css, svg, xml, the renderer, etc. If I understand it is possible to embed

[tor-talk] Tor on Finland's A-Studio on YLE

2013-07-18 Thread Lars Noodén
This last Monday's A-Studio covered Tor briefly. It's in Finnish only. Ironically it's encoded in Flash: http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1943194/ Regards, /Lars ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Stealth mode

2013-05-30 Thread Lars Noodén
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Achter Lieber wrote: Is stealth mode a setting that will hinder or enhance the use of the Tor Bundle? The stealth mode menu is weak on information but it appears that it simply drops packets instead of rejecting them properly. When that happens to you or a service you

Re: [tor-talk] Large search providers banning Tor exists, except for one!

2013-05-04 Thread Lars Noodén
No need to spam for M$ services. There are better services with less baggage: You can search via Tor at ixquick's Start Page: https://startpage.com/do/search And DuckDuckGo works as well: https://duckduckgo.com/html/ Both provide fairly thorough results. It would be

Re: [tor-talk] ssh over tor

2013-05-04 Thread Lars Noodén
On 5/4/13 4:20 AM, Edward J. Shornock wrote: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/ssh [snip] I wish that had turned up in my web searches. But, yeah, that's about the same tools and same method I used. Neither know where to look for leaks beyond DNS. I did a test on

[tor-talk] ssh over tor

2013-05-02 Thread Lars Noodén
I'm looking at using netcat to run ssh over Tor. Does this use of netcat leak information in any way? ssh -o ProxyCommand=nc -X 5 -x localhost:9050 %h %p \ -o User=user1 server.example.org Many others must have already looked at this way of connecting since it is fairly obvious. The only