Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-11 Thread Martin Kepplinger
Akater: …what I'm saying is: Tor could be much more than just a proxy tool, it could be a public campaign—with all the “dirty work” your generic public campaign has. (Well, it's not /that/ dirty, actually; it's funny once you get involved.) Activism, PR, fundraising, education, etc. The

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-11 Thread Öyvind Saether
The only solution would be recommending people to run exit nodes from home. Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea. I used to think this IS the point of Tor. If you run exit node from Yes. Finding out that websites do not work is great. Finding out that

[tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread hikki
Today I discovered that wiki.debian.org blocks Tor exit nodes. There are many other sites doing the same thing, and this is an increasing trend among website admins. If this trend continues, Tor will sooner or later become close to useless for regular clearnet surfing. And we'll be left with

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread intrigeri
hi...@safe-mail.net wrote (10 Nov 2013 18:37:10 GMT) : Today I discovered that wiki.debian.org blocks Tor exit nodes. It blocks *some* exit nodes, not all. E.g. it works for me right now. Data point: I had the exit nodes removed from the blacklist (via private follow-ups to

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Akater
The only solution would be recommending people to run exit nodes from home. Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea. I used to think this IS the point of Tor. If you run exit node from home then nobody can prove that any particular activity was from you and not some

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Michael Wolf
On 11/10/2013 3:12 PM, Akater wrote: The only solution would be recommending people to run exit nodes from home. Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea. I used to think this IS the point of Tor. If you run exit node from home then nobody can prove that any

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Sherief Alaa
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:37 PM, hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: Today I discovered that wiki.debian.org blocks Tor exit nodes. There are many other sites doing the same thing, and this is an increasing trend among website admins. Not sure if they block all exit nodes (if any). I just

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 2:12 PM, Akater wrote: Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea Am I missing something? Yes, from what I've seen reported several times on this list, you're missing that even being approached or brought in for questioning by LEAs, threatened by

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Akater
The German guy was released, right? A couple more precendents, and police will stop raids like this one due to inefficiency. Because, ultimately, they /are/ inefficient, and all Tor community needs to do is to make it as clear to general public as possible. It's difficult to predict how such a

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Praedor
I have, now and then, run exits from home. In each case, a week or so after, I'd get a letter from my ISP about a copyright violation (someone downloaded a pirated movie or music). I'm glad it was just that and not cops blowing in on a pedophile investigation for downloads of child porn. That

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Akater
…what I'm saying is: Tor could be much more than just a proxy tool, it could be a public campaign—with all the “dirty work” your generic public campaign has. (Well, it's not /that/ dirty, actually; it's funny once you get involved.) Activism, PR, fundraising, education, etc. The only reason

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Mirimir
On 11/10/2013 02:14 PM, Akater wrote: SNIP Again, I don't understand what's the purpose of Tor if you pretend you don't use it. ... SNIP Seriously? The point is being more anonymous! If there's a site that you need to access, and that site blocks enough Tor exit nodes to make access

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 3:14 PM, Akater wrote: The German guy was released, right? A couple more precendents, and police will stop raids like this one due to inefficiency. Because, ultimately, they /are/ inefficient, and all Tor community needs to do is to make it as clear to general public as possible.

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Akater
Any VPN provider will sell you out if big brother tells it to. The structure of Tor perfectly reflects the ultimate inherent freedom of Internet: if users act properly, one can't control Internet without turning himself into an omniscient dictator. Hence, using Tor as a mere proxy tool is

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread adrelanos
Akater: I don't even understand who will see this message Everyone signed up on this mailing list, everyone reading the archive over web and those who find results from this mailing list on search engines. and how to provide a discussion link for outsider. Go to the mailing list archive and

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Akater
And, criminals do use Tor, at times. Criminals do use guns at times. Does it mean gov't can harrass you if you own one, too? What about cash? Criminals like cash because it's anonymous. Should we ban cash transactions that exceed certain limit? Who will set the limit? The same guys who can print

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Matt
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:37:10 -0500 hi...@safe-mail.net wrote: Today I discovered that wiki.debian.org blocks Tor exit nodes. There are many other sites doing the same thing, and this is an increasing trend among website admins. If this trend continues, Tor will sooner or later become close

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Juan Garofalo
--On Monday, November 11, 2013 2:44 AM +0400 Akater nuclearsp...@gmail.com wrote: Any VPN provider will sell you out if big brother tells it to. The structure of Tor perfectly reflects the ultimate inherent freedom of Internet: if users act properly, one can't control Internet without

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/10/2013 4:53 PM, Akater wrote: And, criminals do use Tor, at times. Criminals do use guns at times. Does it mean gov't can harrass you if you own one, too? They can do harass anyone, for anything, that they want to. They know how far they can take it (sometimes, that's PRETTY far).

Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!

2013-11-10 Thread Juha Nurmi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 11.11.2013 06:48, krishna e Bera wrote: As someone else pointed out, the most likely consequence of home exit nodes is DMCA complaints leading to cutoff of your home internet connection. Many (most?) ISPs don't even allow running servers.