Re: [tor-talk] washingtonpost.com: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are

2014-07-07 Thread farinet
= We do not deal with an American NSA problem. We deal with a worldwide surveillance problem! +1 But probably, we should put it this way: Not only, but also ... Politcally, we should aim to break the circuit between the secret services which works following the principal: I do regard your

Re: [tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-30 Thread farinet
Lunar schrieb: The default port of the Tor Browser is 9150. Idea is that you start Tor Browser and then start Thunderbird with Torbirdy. Makes sense? If so it makes sense. But, for me, an all machines where i installed tor (debian, ubuntu, arch) the tor config file (/etc/tor/torrc) always came

Re: [tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-30 Thread farinet
Spam 06 schrieb: So, you read the documentation and you find out that the repositories have outdated software that can make the whole thing useless. The port was changed in the mean time. Anyway, that is one more reason to read the docs at the torproject.org site. And get the latest packages.

Re: [tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-30 Thread farinet
Spam 06: Are you sure you want that? Unsecured is worse than not at all in this particular case. Unless you care for a poor man's proxy. Possibly, i don't know (?). But there's no ppc version on the tor server ... Do you have another source? TIA -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-30 Thread farinet
Lars Luthman: 9050 is the default for the stand-alone 'tor' program. The 'tor' that is bundled with the Tor Browser uses 9150 to avoid conflicts with any separately installed 'tor'. Thanks a lot for your patience. I got it now :D :D From a pragmatic point of view, may be it's easier to change

Re: [tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-30 Thread farinet
Geoff Down: To be clear, no ppc version of what? There's a source tarball of Tor. I see. In any case, in the debian repositories i find the the 0.2.4.22 version the same as the stable on the tor download page. Is there any reason to not have confidence to the debian repositories? TIA --

[tor-talk] torbirdy default settings

2014-06-29 Thread farinet
It's not clear to me why torbirdy by default sets the port for socks forwarding to 9150 while on the other hand the default port for tor is 9050. And Torbirdy explicitely underlines it presumes the installation of tor. Thanks in advance for your patience. -- tor-talk mailing list -