Re: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor users.

2014-07-14 Thread Mark McCarron
increased exponentially: http://www.truthfulpolitics.com/images/us-federal-debt-by-president-political-party.jpg Trillions are going somewhere, so whatever it is, it is big and they are willing to undermine the financial health of the nation to deliver it. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 13

Re: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor users.

2014-07-13 Thread Mark McCarron
for the last decade or more??? It would seem to indicate that there is a Manhatten-style project underway. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:14:30 + From: simonsn...@openmailbox.org To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
and hidden services, whilst pretending to provide anonymity. I don't see anyone denying it. Do you? Its been 6 days already. Regards, Mark McCarron From: fuersch...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 18:39:13 +0200 To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
software, be it Tor or Freenet (etc), then quantify the information (data points) available and what inferences can be made from them. Then annoy the hell out of the developers until they eliminate each data point. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:18:40 -0300 From: juan

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
is being done about it. That will tell everyone what they need to know. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:26:04 -0400 From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
fully fleshed out but to the end user it would be a CPanel like interface and a standard website with DB support. I'll see about expanding on this. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:00:59 -0400 From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
Except that we know that such an attack is underway through PRISM and that no one made any moves to fix it. How long has it been now??? A year??? By any measure I am sure we can call that material assistance. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:55:18 -0400 From: grif

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
makes any moves to correct the situation. That pretty much tells everyone what they needed to know about Tor and its developers. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:24 +1000 From: z...@freedbms.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
-to-end traffic analysis to protect hidden services. Certainly there are questions about Tor and its devs, but the final implementation can be reviewed independently. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:45:12 +0200 From: a.k...@gmx.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
Mick, I would be very careful what you claim in your emails. I have the capability of suing you into oblivion, that email constitutes defamation. Nothing like that was ever said, either retract it or I will take you for everything that you've got. Your choice. Regards, Mark McCarron Date

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
indication what happened. Mark McCarron - June 25th If he attempts to insinuate that I was accessing or attempting access illegal material again, I will sue him. He obviously has a problem, not with me, but the discussion about securing Tor against intelligence agencies with a global view

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
only assume that you're a sock puppet for an intelligence agency who has started to panic about the network going truly dark. Deal with it. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:02:25 +1000 From: z...@freedbms.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
in mind that I am a security specialist too and know that to be untrue. I don't mean to be confrontational in any way, but the credibility of this project is on the line here. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:31:20 -0400 From: a...@mit.edu To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
this was an unfortunate accident. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:41:55 +0100 From: m...@rlogin.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:11:18 +0100 Mark McCarron mark.mccar

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
to that in the future versions of Tor. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:54:03 -0400 From: a...@mit.edu To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 07:30:35PM +0100, Mark McCarron

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
that statement is missing and why it was never implemented. Just by asking those questions, we can better observe the intentions, or at least make people squirm a little. :) Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:45:43 -0400 From: mikew...@riseup.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
and as its metadata, that implies traffic analysis. So, its a patchwork model and the costs are spread across many nations and information sharing to isolate sites is policy driven. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:14:18 -0700 From: coder...@gmail.com To: tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-28 Thread Mark McCarron
is gone. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:19:00 -0300 From: juan@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:48:27 -0700 coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-27 Thread Mark McCarron
consistent factors are there? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-27 Thread Mark McCarron
and then modify it. That's a complex design, but robust and the traffic analysis would yield little-to-no actionable information. Does anyone have any other ideas? Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:38:01 -0300 From: juan@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor

[tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
been compromised on a global scale with very little fanfare or moves to correct the situation. Does anyone have any insights into the problem? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
and Security of Tor? The software is compromised in some fashion and we need to understand this. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:17:41 -0500 From: joebtfs...@gmx.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
, at worst, non-existent. Anyway, this is off-topic, so I won't be delving into this any further. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:36:06 -0400 From: ape...@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
Anonymous is an astro-turfed cover for the CIA. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:16:48 -0300 From: juan@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:28:42 +0100

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
' that indicates the overall effectiveness of the Tor platform. The canary is dead. Something is wrong with Tor and we need to find it. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:53:50 -0700 From: coder...@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
arrived or remained even after the Freedom Hosting bust. I think everyone needs to stop looking for excuses and start examining why this is happening and fix it. Otherwise, this project is a waste of time. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:15:26 -0600 From: miri...@riseup.net

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-25 Thread Mark McCarron
? Mark McCarron Lunar lu...@torproject.org wrote: Joe Btfsplk: I missed the memo on all reasons why Vidalia - bad, Tor Launcher - good. At least: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/papers/2007_soups.pdf http://petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-1-usability.pdf and Vidalia has no maintainers

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
at present and provides no anonymity as it fails to deal with traffic analysis. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:23:08 -0800 From: sch...@eff.org To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! TheMindwareGroup writes: I don't know

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:22:27 +0100 From: a.k...@gmx.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:25:02 +, Mark McCarron wrote: ... In regards to identifying Tor users, this is more

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:40:11 +0100 From: a.k...@gmx.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:17:47 +, Mark McCarron wrote: ... In fact, the EU mandates that this data be held

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
to explicitly allow that by clicking a button. That said, all of this is a complete waste of time if Tor does not start integrating techniques to prevent traffic analysis. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 05:09:23 -0500 From: mikewol...@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
connections. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:00:41 +0100 From: a.k...@gmx.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:58:49 +, Mark McCarron wrote: ... The fact that TBB disables javascript

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
We're not discussing censorship, but the removal of potential exploitable data. Its not a keyword system, it removes cookies, web bugs, adds jitter to timings, etc. It can be disabled with a click. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:56:41 -0500 From: and...@paolucci.ca

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
Point by point. Javascript, by itself, is not an issue and poses no more of a security threat than any other type of data transferred online. Coding errors in image handling, html parsing, ftp, etc., can all be used to inject code. Note that (potential) privilege escalation bugs

[tor-talk] Partial View Traffic Analysis

2013-12-18 Thread Mark McCarron
were your results? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Android browser?

2013-12-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Mark McCarron Nathan Freitas nat...@freitas.net wrote: On 12/07/2013 07:59 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: I would be wary of Android. Its is complex to secure given the closed nature of most handsets. Do you have a mobile OS of choice that you feel is more trustworthy, or are you referring

Re: [tor-talk] Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself

2013-11-29 Thread Mark McCarron
, this is about backdooring TOR, nothing else. That alone, at least to me, indicates that the IETF is pretty much NSA, or representing their interests. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. I vote no. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:47:48 +0100 From: eu...@leitl.org

Re: [tor-talk] Safeplug

2013-11-23 Thread Mark McCarron
How about a certification program? A company can donate some funds to have their product evaluated and if successful gain TOR Certified status. It would stop all this nonsense and provide everyone the opportunity to request specific features or amendments to designs. I understand that no one

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-19 Thread Mark McCarron
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:47:06 +0100 From: t...@unterderbruecke.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/19/2013 06:50 AM, Mark McCarron wrote: Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-19 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:01:58 + From: bm-2ctpedtadjx2bqf6wuux1cper78sq3x...@bitmessage.ch To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements Mark McCarron: This will assist in eliminating the global view

[tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
With all the recent crack downs on civil liberties, seizure of TOR services and general censorship that is now hitting even mainstream search engines, I would like to propose a set of new services and some enhancements to the network layer to improve anonymity. We need to get as much support

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:11:40 +0100 From: t...@unterderbruecke.de To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2013 05:23 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: With all the recent