Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/16/2011 3:05 PM, Julian Yon wrote: On 16/10/11 17:57, William Wrightman wrote: When you have finished then you close the partition. Now the password is cleared from the RAM. Thoughts? If you (or someone you ultimately trust) didn't write or audit the code yourself then you are making a

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread Julian Yon
On 16/10/11 17:57, William Wrightman wrote: > When you have finished then you close the partition. Now the > password is cleared from the RAM. > > Thoughts? If you (or someone you ultimately trust) didn't write or audit the code yourself then you are making a huge assumption there. Julian --

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-16 Thread William Wrightman
> Full disk encryption is possible. For > Debian or Ubuntu you can enable I don't really understand the apparent benefit of full disk encryption as opposed to using TrueCrypt partitions. AIUI if you are using FDE then the password is stored in the RAM while the computer is on. If the co

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread Andreas Bader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.10.2011 23:51, katmagic wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:05 +0200, Andreas Bader wrote: > On 13.10.2011 14:02, Karsten N. wrote: Am 13.10.2011 08:39, schrieb William Wrightman: > Is moving to Linux one solution? I agree with A

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread katmagic
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:05 +0200, Andreas Bader wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 13.10.2011 14:02, Karsten N. wrote: > > Am 13.10.2011 08:39, schrieb William Wrightman: > >> Is moving to Linux one solution? > > > > I agree with Adrew, there is no 100% solution. > >

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread Andreas Bader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.10.2011 14:02, Karsten N. wrote: > Am 13.10.2011 08:39, schrieb William Wrightman: >> Is moving to Linux one solution? > > I agree with Adrew, there is no 100% solution. > > But you can do as much as possible to increase your security. > > Mov

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread Karsten N.
Am 13.10.2011 08:39, schrieb William Wrightman: > Is moving to Linux one solution? I agree with Adrew, there is no 100% solution. But you can do as much as possible to increase your security. Moving to Linux (or OpenBSD ;-) ) is one step. Full disk encryption is possible. For Debian or Ubuntu y

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-10-13 13:40 , and...@torproject.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:39:12PM -0700, williamwright...@yahoo.com > wrote 1.1K bytes in 24 lines about: : Keyloggers would, I assume, > defeat the whole purpose of Tor since the URL would be recorded and > sent to the fedz. > > If you lose co

Re: [tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-13 Thread andrew
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:39:12PM -0700, williamwright...@yahoo.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 24 lines about: : Keyloggers would, I assume, defeat the whole purpose of Tor since the URL would be recorded and sent to the fedz. If you lose control over your local computer, tor cannot help you. If the a

[tor-talk] German police keylogger analysis (and the effects on Tor are....?)

2011-10-12 Thread William Wrightman
Here is an article which details the German federal police's use of keyloggers. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/german-gov-spyware/ There are also links to Wired's coverage of the FBIs keylogger which are well worth a read. Keyloggers would, I assume, defeat the whole purpose of Tor si