[tor-talk] Indirect Tor question

2013-09-09 Thread Praedor Atrebates
In light of the recent revelations of how the NSA has broken commercial software all over the place, I wonder about the security of Oracle's VirtualBox VM software used by Whonix (and other?) tor-based anonymity systems. A large portion of VirtualBox is open source but some libraries used are of d

[tor-talk] TorBox updating problem

2012-09-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I've been trying to do an "apt-get update" on my torbox gateway and client system but when I do an "apt-get update" I get a failure on http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/precise/InRelease but if I navigate there via a browser I see an InRelease file there of very recent vintage and no o

Re: [tor-talk] please suggest a new project name for Anonymous Operating System

2012-08-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Good one too. On 08/29/2012 07:22 PM, || ΣΖΟ || wrote: > I really like Nymmos > > Don't look any further... > > Though one last option now pops into my mind > > AliOS - as in alias. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Praedor Atrebates wrote: >

Re: [tor-talk] please suggest a new project name for Anonymous Operating System

2012-08-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
This gets my vote. On 08/29/2012 06:02 AM, anemailaddr...@tormail.org wrote: > God damn why is nobody listening to me :D > > Nymmos! > > Its perfect :) > > Nymm = nym = alias > > OS = OS > > Almost no search engine hits, sounds like animal so you can create a > mascot like Tux, and Google thinks

Re: [tor-talk] AOS (was Torbox)...DO NOT USE

2012-07-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/18/2012 02:15 PM, adrelanos wrote: > Praedor Atrebates: >> I do not understand this project at all. There is NO irc channel, >> NO help contacts, NO mailing list, the "discussion" in sourceforge >> is totally dead/idle/unresponsive. >> >> Gotta say

Re: [tor-talk] Torbox (now aos) question

2012-07-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/17/2012 02:33 PM, adrelanos wrote: Praedor Atrebates: There is no readme when you download. Think of it as "online help file". Link: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBOX/Readme No. IP 192.168.0.1 is only used by eth1, a virtual, internal network interface

[tor-talk] AOS (was Torbox)...DO NOT USE

2012-07-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I do not understand this project at all. There is NO irc channel, NO help contacts, NO mailing list, the "discussion" in sourceforge is totally dead/idle/unresponsive. Gotta say, NOT impressed. It doesn't work and there is no way to get help with any troubleshooting, no way to submit a "trou

Re: [tor-talk] Torbox (now aos) question

2012-07-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/17/2012 12:22 PM, adrelanos wrote: Praedor Atrebates: Well, I have been using the virtual box *.ova files and there is no documentation with these. I assume you mean one must download the source to get the readme? No source required to read the readme. I wonder where you downloaded it

Re: [tor-talk] Torbox (now aos) question

2012-07-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/17/2012 11:36 AM, adrelanos wrote: Praedor Atrebates: I was using torbox the other day without problem. I come back the next day and suddenly the torbox-workstation is no longer able to connect to the internet as it appears the torbox-gateway is no longer functioning/accessible. I

[tor-talk] Torbox (now aos) question

2012-07-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I was using torbox the other day without problem. I come back the next day and suddenly the torbox-workstation is no longer able to connect to the internet as it appears the torbox-gateway is no longer functioning/accessible. I changed nothing. I shut them both down and restarted first the

Re: [tor-talk] Hiding stuff

2012-07-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/13/2012 06:22 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 22:14, proper wrote: My non-offical project supports [1] that. Java and Flash do not leak IP or DNS. Even without leaking IP, they have far too much power for a far too small benefit. The ability to write or read the dis

Re: [tor-talk] Hiding stuff

2012-07-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/13/2012 06:13 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 16:38, Praedor Atrebates wrote: My main interest in emulators and/or VMs is to be able to use tor browser but also leave some of the add-ons activated (javascript, flash) and STILL defeat tracking. Tor gives you ip X

Re: [tor-talk] Hiding stuff

2012-07-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On 07/13/2012 02:15 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 13:41, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Would not cpu/system data get hidden if you ran tor browser inside an emulator? Yes, an emulator with Tails. But, why should people have to do all that and install so many packages just

Re: [tor-talk] Hiding stuff

2012-07-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Would not cpu/system data get hidden if you ran tor browser inside an emulator? On 07/13/2012 01:34 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 15:02, proper wrote: antispa...@sent.at: I remember reading about installing more extensions as a bad thing as it might identify a Tor c

Re: [tor-talk] The project "tormail"

2011-08-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
The other problem with the setup is passwords can only be letters or numbers, no special characters. On Thursday, August 18, 2011 06:54:45 am Gitano wrote: > On 2011-08-17 17:17, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > WTF? If you sign up and then go to the login tab, you are offered 2 > > login choices,

Re: [tor-talk] The project "tormail"

2011-08-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Sure, Squirrel mail is available too but it is the principle that a tor-based service would do the very /un-tor/anti-tor thing of providing a javascript (or flash) based service. It automatically makes me question their veracity or trustworthiness. They may as well eschew https and have you lo

Re: [tor-talk] Google disable web-access to gmail for Tor-users?

2011-04-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
011 13:28, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > Could you elaborate a bit on this? After this discussion I went ahead and > > tried to create another anonymous gmail account and ran into the "requires > > SMS" hitch as discussed (and there is no option that I can see to bypa

Re: [tor-talk] Google disable web-access to gmail for Tor-users?

2011-04-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Just a quick note...a nice, safe, easily anonymized email account can be had at safe-mail.net. No hoops to jump through, tor friendly. On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 01:52:31 am grarpamp wrote: > >> >Google requires you to be able to receive a text message or phone call to > >> >use a GMail accoun

Re: [tor-talk] Google disable web-access to gmail for Tor-users?

2011-04-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Could you elaborate a bit on this? After this discussion I went ahead and tried to create another anonymous gmail account and ran into the "requires SMS" hitch as discussed (and there is no option that I can see to bypass this via other means as others have described) I have no idea what @your