Re: [tor-talk] SIGAINT email service targeted by 70 bad exit nodes

2015-04-23 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
I think we are being targeted by some agency here. That's a lot of exit nodes. See above question about number of relays vs capacity of the relays -- it would be great to learn more information before jumping to conclusions. Some very dedicated jerk can probably spin up VPSes at a bunch of

Re: [tor-talk] TOR bundle on hostile platforms: why?

2013-08-07 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Aug 7, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Ivan Zaigralin wrote: Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as traffic analysis. It doesn't, since Microsoft can survey all outgoing and incoming traffic in plain text. Tor also makes it possible for users to hide their

Re: [tor-talk] Onion Sites Won't Load

2013-06-07 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Jun 7, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Mysterious Flyer wrote: Why oh why can I not access any of the onion sites listed on the hidden wiki? They all time out. Did I do something to make the Onion Master mad? Does everyone else have the same problem? I have a typical 64-bit computer running

Re: [tor-talk] Webserver on 127.0.0.1 only?

2012-05-09 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On 5/9/12 2:52 PM, Jerzy Ɓogiewa wrote: when building webserver I want only 127.0.0.1 able to connect - not the internet and not 192.168.x.x even! this is for hidden service _ONLY_ and no one even on local network should be able to probe for it. i know how to setup hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] An external application is needed...

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Mar 10, 2012, at 9:49 AM, bao song wrote: I don't think Word or Adobe Reader automatically connect external links without warning the user, but I could be wrong. Think of Word and PDF documents as potential connect-back shells; then you may understand the warnings better. -RPW

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden service security w. Apache/Win32

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Ondrej Mikle wrote: On 02/20/2012 05:06 PM, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: On 2012-02-19 19:58 CET, Ondrej Mikle wrote: Addendum for truly uberparanoid installation: [various best practices] With the uberparanoid installation, the greatest risk is a return