Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:40:11 +0100 > From: a.k...@gmx.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! > > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:17:47 +, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > > > > In fac

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:40:11PM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:17:47 +, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > > > No, its not. Traffic obfuscation techniques can eliminate the > > global view. It just needs to be implemented correctly. > > How? A user can only interact with a

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:17:47 +, Mark McCarron wrote: ... > > > In fact, the EU mandates that this data be held for 2 years: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union > > > > No, it doesn't. The requirement is for access ISPs to log the association > >

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:22:27 +0100 > From: a.k...@gmx.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! > > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:25:02 +, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > > In regards to ide

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:25:02 +, Mark McCarron wrote: ... > In regards to identifying Tor users, this is more simple than anyone imagines. No, it isn't. > A simple DB at an ISP recording IP addresses of those connecting to Tor nodes > is all it takes. Not all tor nodes are publicly known. >

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-08 Thread Mark McCarron
present and provides no anonymity as it fails to deal with traffic analysis. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:23:08 -0800 > From: sch...@eff.org > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!! > > TheMindwareGroup writ

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-07 Thread Gerardus Hendricks
On 1/8/14 1:44 AM, TheMindwareGroup wrote: https://wiki.thc.org/ssl Thank you for linking that resource. It explains the issue really well. I don't think the issue they are describing matches your doom scenario though. Yes, the CA system sucks horribly. It is best to assume that many of the

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-07 Thread Seth David Schoen
TheMindwareGroup writes: > I don't know the exact details of how SSL/certificates work and I > don't know about anyone else's opinion on this subject, this is mine > and it doesnt look good. If this document is true, it means that due > to a (massive) weakness in the way central certificate author

Re: [tor-talk] !!! Important please read. !!!

2014-01-07 Thread TheMindwareGroup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi im Shadowman, I havent posted on here before, I found this document and thought it rather important for everyone to read it. https://wiki.thc.org/ssl I don't know the exact details of how SSL/certificates work and I don't know about anyone else'