[tor-talk] Why will the home page in Firefox load (when TorButton is on) even though Tor itself is not loaded?

2011-10-11 Thread Matthew R
Hello, I am using TorButton 1.4.4. It is set to be on automatically when Firefox loads. The way my system works is that Tor runs when Vidalia runs. I manually load Vidalia then open Firefox. However, I have noticed that if I do not have Vidalia running and I load Firefox then the bookmarked hom

[tor-talk] How can I select a specific exit node?

2011-12-18 Thread Matthew R
It appears that StrictExitNodes no longer works. However, when I use StrictNodes to select an exit node, this also does not appear to work. How can I edit my torrc file to select a particular exit node? For example: StrictNodes 1 ExitNodes name_of_node_here Thanks!

[tor-talk] "If you have access to certain tools, you can completely ignore Tor."

2011-12-18 Thread Matthew R
From: http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/09/interview-with-pi-steve-rambam-evan-can-be-found/ Wired: How much can one do with IP addresses that have been run through Tor? SR: If you have access to certain tools, you can completely ignore Tor. You can trap your subject’s IP address without wasting y

[tor-talk] How can I get Vidalia to work when I am loading Tor with a custom torrc file?

2011-12-21 Thread Matthew R
Hello, I was having some problems so reinstalled Tor. Now I am having new issues. I am using Tor 0.2.2.35, Torbutton 1.4.4.1, and Vidalia 0.2.15 under Ubuntu 10.04. I want to use a specific torrc file. When I boot-up, Tor runs. I kill it then run tor -f torrc. I can then use Firefox with my

[tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2011-12-29 Thread Matthew R
I am becoming increasingly perplexed about my Tor setup. Tor does not appear to run on start-up. I assume this because I cannot see it using ps aux | grep tor. My torrc is in /etc/tor/torrc with user and group set as 'root'. I run 'sudo tor' and receive the following errors: Dec 29 20:12:55.07

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew R
Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to start from the beginning because Vidalia is still weird but Tor seems OK now. First, I removed everything: apt-get purge tor vidalia Second, I installed as suggested here (option two) for Ubuntu lucid: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en Thir

Re: [tor-talk] What is going on with /var/run/tor?

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew R
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:42 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:17:43PM +, magick...@gmail.com wrote 3.2K > bytes in 82 lines about: > : Second, I installed as suggested here (option two) for Ubuntu lucid: > : https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en > > Just a reminder that this i