Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
. The rules were written between August 2011 and (likely upper bound) February 2012; they are also rather sloppy: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2014-July/013940.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Tor's reputation problem with pedo, some easy steps the community could take

2013-04-30 Thread Maxim Kammerer
the relevant parts for, e.g., Wikipedia. [1] http://lenta.ru/articles/2013/04/26/anonymity/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [Tails-dev] Tails Mac support

2013-02-25 Thread Maxim Kammerer
] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-July/024964.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [Tails-dev] Tails Mac support [Was: Training Journalists in Istanbul]

2013-02-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
to be exciting, not this… bureaucracy. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Project idea: TorBox

2013-01-14 Thread Maxim Kammerer
“collaborative” project: https://github.com/grugq/portal https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/289617118159319040 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Bitcoin? [OT]

2013-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
account's value comes from overall tracking of users, not just anti-spam verification, so I doubt they would find any anonymous deposits scheme valuable for the company. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Tor

2012-12-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
] [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-October/026023.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Aggregate-type settings in torrc

2012-12-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
use TCP? Or can it use e.g. UDP? And last question, is there a reason that a line like ClientTransportPlugin obfs2 exec /usr/bin/obfsproxy --managed causes Tor to always run an obfsproxy daemon, even if there are no obfs2 bridges defined in torrc? Thanks, Maxim -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux

Re: [tor-talk] Botnets through Tor

2012-12-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
configuration changes, but here is a botnet advertisement that mentions I2P support: http://uscyberlabs.com/blog/2012/09/24/dark-heart-botnet-tor-c2-bullet-proof-server-collector/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-01 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Is it possible to configure the tor-talk mailing list to discard messages not explicitly addressed to it? Like this nanog discussion. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

2012-11-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
issuing NEWNYM, it is a sure sign of circuit reuse (or a bug in Tor). It is different from infrequently getting same exit node on unrelated circuits. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

2012-11-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
not the problem here, as the OP is reusing an old circuit despite establishing new circuits via NEWNYM (which most likely differ in exit node IPs). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

2012-11-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, judging from the frequency of this issue being brought up. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Can I trust Tormail

2012-11-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
be “good”). In any case, this doesn't really matter — my point was that the idea that Tormail is managed by any competent intelligence agency is ridiculous, since they wouldn't disrupt the service in a way that would risk fleeing userbase as a consequence. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http

Re: [tor-talk] Can I trust Tormail

2012-11-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
intelligence agency wouldn't pull off something like that, and why. If you want to imagine them as some omniscient entities as shown in the movies — fine, but please leave the demagogy out of the discussion. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Can I trust Tormail

2012-11-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
. It appears this was a big mistake, the Russian providers are much worse!” Tormail is apparently just a couple of naive American kids. [1] http://opusmagnus.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/tormail-net-has-moved/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

2012-11-03 Thread Maxim Kammerer
://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395953 Wrt. this specific bug, perhaps you will want to use Anthony Basile's solution instead of the patch in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636943 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] help us:Korean government started to fine netizen who download child pornography without child

2012-10-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
attitude reminded me of the following old story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/901723.stm. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
user's TZ environment variable [1]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
GMail accounts: $95 per 1k. (Annoying millions of users by ignoring their desire for privacy: priceless.) Looks like spammers don't value your phone verification efforts too much. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-16 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, customers (advertisers in your case). [1] http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/72901 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor

[tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, is making just /var/lib/tor/data/state persistent (instead of the whole directory) enough at the moment to have persistent guards? [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-better-guard-rotation-parameters -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
some granularity setting, and take the top 3 distinct nodeIDs. With persistence, you can also ignore nodeIDs newer than the seed's timestamp, although not doing that is not critical. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
in changing guards after a while? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [tor-dev] resistance to rubberhose and UDP questions

2012-10-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
they break the assumption that one needs to provide a correct password to open a volume in LUKS after it is closed, for instance. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Services

2012-09-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
in this discussion. Mean time to seeing an .onion descriptor on an HSDir relay is 8 days at present. In light of that, arguments for / against publishing crawled addresses are meaningless, regardless of privacy expectations. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Services

2012-09-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
didn't read §1.3 of the spec carefully enough. Hidden service public key inside the descriptor is hashed. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-talk] onion id calculation

2012-09-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/2012-August/025409.html From the script: # Tor hashes ASN.1 RSAPublicKey instead of SubjectPublicKeyInfo, # which contains RSAPublicKey at offset 22; it then converts the # first half of SHA-1 hash to Base32 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Services

2012-09-17 Thread Maxim Kammerer
a relay for a couple of months should produce a nearly complete list of hidden service addresses, optionally with some indicative access statistics [1, §1.6]. [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] HiddenServices: calculating .onion address with private key?

2012-08-31 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/lib/tor/hidden_service/private_key -pubout -outform der | tail -c +23 | sha1sum | head -c 20 (and convert to Base32) [1] https://github.com/mkdesu/cables/blob/master/bin/gen-tor-hostname -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-24 Thread Maxim Kammerer
correlation accuracy error to 10^-9 will give you 99.99% confidence in end-to-end correlation match. I suspect that a few seconds of interactive traffic will give you a correlation accuracy that's much better than a 10^-9 error. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
: send chunks to rotating sets of nodes, increase recorded traffic window (to be able to send old chunks to nodes that didn't see traffic to a given IP yet), etc. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
the probabilities, but not by much, so I didn't bother to account for that. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
he likes. What's the point of your posts? You don't *do* anything. There are other venues where you can indulge in useless chit-chat. Please do not reply until you have something worthwhile to contribute. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-21 Thread Maxim Kammerer
show such examples, although someone with a few million $ to spare or to invest might to just that (see above). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org

[tor-talk] End-to-end correlation for fun and profit

2012-08-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, the situation is even better — intercepting the same 25 Class-C networks will let you see 72% of the traffic. Picking better non-Guard Exits will improve this figure to 78%. That's right — 4/5th of Tor traffic exits through just 25 LANs. [1] http://pastebin.com/hgtXMSyx -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
for the purpose of criticism — good for high-school debates and for politicians, but of little value otherwise. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Maxim Kammerer
move on. I don't understand this need to inject an opinion just because you don't like the conclusions. Find something non-trivial to add to the discussion first. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/09/02/doctoring-diversity-race-and-photoshop/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-10 Thread Maxim Kammerer
can. I have went over Tor and Rendevous specs, and several conference papers before writing some of the posts. What have you done, expressed doubt and dislike? I don't care — contribute something useful -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
than say something that could be a lie. So far you didn't say anything useful or non-obvious, so why did you post? You didn't like someone's written experience, so he is automatically a troll or a false flag — fine, bring your own references. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, or anything else, then great, otherwise you are not bringing any new information or non-trivial conclusions to the table. Calling someone sharing their experience a troll or a false flag can be interesting psychologically, but it has no merit otherwise. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
or destination IP wise statistic. Some of that information is available in [1]. [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NSS.2010.47 (http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf) -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html#WhatAboutCriminals [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vdhs8/hi_iama_we_are_core_members_of_the_tor_project/c53j9j9 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
. By the way, I forgot to add [3], it should go at the end of first paragraph, after “nevertheless”. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/hi_iama_we_are_core_members_of_the_tor_project/c53jzqv -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, just analyze those sites that are accessed via exit nodes (where you also have the opportunity to MITM). Terrorists are dumb, but some are bound to have the know-how to install Tor. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

2012-08-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
experience with running an exit node and looking at the traffic. Do you have a better statistic? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks, usewithtor, torify questions - end the confusion!

2012-07-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
torsocks with reasonable behavior if -v/--verbose or -h/--help arguments are passed.” I think it should stay, since there are probably quite a few scripts relying on torify. usewithtor still comes out as rather useless, though. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks, usewithtor, torify questions - end the confusion!

2012-07-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
. (and which is not available on all platforms — e.g., torify does not use it). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [Tails-dev] secure and simple network time (hack)

2012-07-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
whether Chrome OS's usage of tlsdate is confirmed by Google, or this information comes from a single pull request on GitHub. In any case, I suspect that Chrome OS developers did not properly explore the available time setting options. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Custom Hidden Service Name?

2012-07-08 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: It would be theoretically possible to speed up the process via GPU processing? Yes, see the following thread: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-March/023805.html. -- Maxim Kammerer

Re: [tor-talk] Transparent e-mail encryption?

2012-07-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
communication also has delivery verification and other features. Note that PGP / S/MIME-type encryption is undesirable for most users, since it ties authentication to non-repudiability [2]. [1] http://dee.su/cables [2] http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http

Re: [tor-talk] How to pin the SSL certificate for torproject.org?

2012-07-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
to use from that file or if I am on the complete wrong path. If you can help out with it, that'd be great! Try the following commands on each of the certificates in the chain: openssl x509 -in cert.pem -noout -text -pubkey -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] [Bitcoin-development] Tor hidden service support

2012-06-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
the same information. It apparently even complies with the RFC, as .onion addresses satisfy the randomness requirement. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-talk] [Bitcoin-development] Tor hidden service support

2012-06-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Bernd prof7...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/27 Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su: The reason for such bundles is to be user friendly. That's the motivation, but not the reason for the misguided packaging design. You can make a single installer that installs several

Re: [tor-talk] [Bitcoin-development] Tor hidden service support

2012-06-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
-bit public key + 1024-bit signing public key) + a few extra bytes. I guess that I2P could support a shorter hash for unique local IPv6 mappings — say, 95 bits. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] [Bitcoin-development] Tor hidden service support

2012-06-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
approach is the same old “thanks everyone else for investing the time to create interoperable packages of your software, but now we are going to create a solid bundle, because it's easier, and because we are special”. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Tor + VPN + DNS (?)

2012-05-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Yes, and with plain Tor setup you don't need local DNS resolution at all. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser disabling Javascript anonymity set reduction

2012-05-13 Thread Maxim Kammerer
user's mouse movement and other unique behavior, and then classifies users by that data, for instance. Once some grad student implements this approach, and thousands of sites adopt it as a reliable fingerprinting technique, what will you do? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support

Re: [tor-talk] Basic questions from new user but...

2012-05-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
traffic, which are constantly changing users, that someone can monitor enough nodes AND be able to tie it directly to ONE specific person, w/ a real name physical address?  Are we talking that any 12 yr old w/ the right, free software can do this, or theoretically? Theoretically. -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, which only happens with --no-passive-ftp, and is kind of pointless. Perhaps you have seen the behavior you talk about in Tails, back before I convinced them that transparent proxying with iptables is a bad idea? In that case, the problem is with transparent proxying, not wget. -- Maxim Kammerer

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
% anything, ever”? Note that I originally replied to a post by Runa Sandvik which was entirely wrong and needed correction, and that you are quoting a summary. What is your contribution to this thread exactly? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

[tor-talk] Can Tor resist active IP discovery attacks from inside the client?

2012-04-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
traffic is routed via Tor (directly or transparently) or blocked. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
know that internal security services and military intelligence will (and do) intercept everything they can. By the way, good to see a fan of the Strugazkis on this list. :) -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-05 Thread Maxim Kammerer
we infer from it. Well, I think that some educated guesswork is at least useful for formulating a hypothesis. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
in developed countries * Small-scale trading of illegal drugs * Viewing images and videos of pedophilia [1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Absence of digital signature of TBB sources

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:44, Robert Ransom rransom.8...@gmail.com wrote: There probably shouldn't be any release tarballs for TBB source code. Not twice, at least. I didn't think it was worth posting the previous time, but did no one notice that .gz and .gz.asc are the same file? -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
of the conversation. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
it be: * Asians and Muslim use Tor to get on Facebook * Loonies use Tor to hide from The Man * Stoners use Tor to buy drugs * Pedophiles use Tor to share videos Or is that list completely wrong? Right now, it seems difficult to get a reliable estimate. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux

Re: [tor-talk] Designing a secure Tor box for safe web browsing?

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
not give them the same benefits as an integrated, pre-configured Live amnesic host OS + Tor routing VM + desktop VM Tails would: I don't disagree, I just don't think that this advantage is important enough to trump the inefficiency inherent in running everything in a VM for everyone. -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
”) in the estimated breakdown above. I would also place human rights activists somewhere at the bottom of the list. The “Militaries” section on the “Tor users” page is most likely completely phony, though. [1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/b7v2p84331286k0g/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
in your country. Well, you already have some statistics from personal interaction with users, but you didn't want to share them on the “Tor users” page (e.g., there is no section about people using Tor to trade illegal drugs, although that must be a sizable proportion of users). -- Maxim Kammerer

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
is no military intelligence — these people would do anything, since the most they risk is a failed investigation. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] access sites

2012-04-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
not mistaken; did I miss anyone else? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Choosing a name for a .onon

2012-03-29 Thread Maxim Kammerer
) produces the desired result. If it does, check whether e is prime. Density of primes in the range of e is ~1/512, so that's just 9 bits more of search space, and primality checking efficiency doesn't matter much. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Designing a secure Tor box for safe web browsing?

2012-03-26 Thread Maxim Kammerer
here: https://forum.dee.su/topic/gui-isolation. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor

Re: [tor-talk] Designing a secure Tor box for safe web browsing?

2012-03-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/rasd:AutomaticAllocation rasd:ElementNamecdrom1/rasd:ElementName rasd:HostResourceovf:/file/file1/rasd:HostResource rasd:InstanceID6/rasd:InstanceID rasd:Parent5/rasd:Parent rasd:ResourceType15/rasd:ResourceType /Item -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-07 Thread Maxim Kammerer
there was a sharp growth in USA-located relays without a corresponding growth in total clients, and if those relays have similar bandwidth / data center quality capabilities, then that could be The Man. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-07 Thread Maxim Kammerer
agencies had anything to do with that relays number spike, it could be a simple attempt to aid opposition in Iran (i.e., not to introduce rogue nodes that leak information for later analysis). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
if that won't contribute significant bandwidth), etc. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and HTTPS graphic

2012-03-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
as well. In summary, the traffic channels of absolute majority of Tor relays (Internet backbones and satellite links) are easily accessible by the US intelligence agencies. Intercepting and correlating all Tor traffic is thus a question of willpower and resources prioritization, not viability. -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] Operating system updates / software installation behind Tor Transparent Proxy

2012-03-03 Thread Maxim Kammerer
to withstand active attacks where Torified applications try to discover the real IP? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Cannot finish handshake with directory server (Kazakhstan)

2012-02-28 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, who could disclose DPI methodologies to key Tor developers in advance of their deployment in company products. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Scroogle is No More?

2012-02-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
,26912429 Perhaps it's something similar this time. I guess that Ixquick could add a disclaimer about why privacy-oriented extensions may break the site — for the benefit of users who lack the capability of self-criticism. If anyone feels inclined: https://ixquick.com/eng/feedback.html#contact -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] How accurate does need the clock to be?

2012-02-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
, but this is apparently an ideological issue. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] secure and simple network time (hack)

2012-02-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
handling)? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Blocking Tor - solutions?

2012-02-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
is lack of implementation of exit bridges concept. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] irc clients and Tor

2012-02-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Is that address listed in some OFTC-approved location? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-09 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Tor network provides anonymity per se. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: ANONdroid

2012-01-26 Thread Maxim Kammerer
an advantage over Tor, where relay operators can be served with an order and some Tor patches that they wouldn't be able to turn down to to the absence of a similar feature in Tor. Revocable Anonymity seems to be designed to provide the minimum necessary information to law enforcement. -- Maxim

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: ANONdroid

2012-01-26 Thread Maxim Kammerer
the principal difference. This property also prevents JonDos entry and middle nodes from being hassle free, as is the case with Tor. Do you mean the added legal liability of being a certified MIX operator? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: ANONdroid

2012-01-25 Thread Maxim Kammerer
/Java_Anon_Proxy#Privacy -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] tor out of date

2012-01-19 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 19:07, Geoff Down geoffd...@fastmail.net wrote:  You can build from source if you have the expertise (and obsolete  developer tools) to build from source. What obsolete developer tools? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-13 Thread Maxim Kammerer
users' privacy and anonymity. Maybe we should just pick yacy, since it is uncensorable, lacks centralized logging, and is peer to peer. But can it search? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Torbutton code, and specifying a different search engine would not be a maintenance burden. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-12 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Bartiromo, CNBC) — If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO) [Dec. 3, 2009] -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

2012-01-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
redirecting links). DuckDuckGo does that as well. As far as I am able to tell, ixquick doesn't do that — at least, I don't see redirects (but there could be other means of tracking employed, e.g., via Javascript). -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute

Re: [tor-talk] Tor exit+proxy

2012-01-06 Thread Maxim Kammerer
be even harder to stop abuse form it. Don't see why a Tor user should care about Tor's credibility in this scenario. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk

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