[tor-talk] Deep Web Business Models

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
I'm taking this as a good sign that real businesspeople are starting to get interested in "deep web" marketplaces, where customer data isn't the primary product. Here's one investor's thoughts, http://joel.mn/post/108657860988/deep-web-marketplaces -- Andrew +1-781-948-1982 https://www.torproj

Re: [tor-talk] Wrong links on Tor Browser download page

2014-10-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 10/16/2014 02:51 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Confirmed. It looks like Andrew was the last to push to the website -- > Andrew, can you check your ./publish process and make sure that it > includes an 'svn update' before the build and push step? Or can you > otherwise try to figure out what went

Re: [tor-talk] Random Networking Upgrades That May Be Of Use In Tor 2

2014-10-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-09 21:17, Ben Healey wrote: Here's some info that may be of use in Tor. Hello Ben, Your past two emails have little to nothing to do with Tor. Please post relevant topics in the future. Thanks. -- Andrew https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mail

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in the media

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-02 14:15, z9wahqvh wrote: as I've asked before, I would appreciate any metrics, stats, or other data that can back up claims of this sort, as well as means by which reporters and researchers can assess them. Luckily, we have DARPA working to find out these metrics and stats, see htt

Re: [tor-talk] Tor in the media

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 17:40, Patrick wrote: Hi everyone, Over the past few weeks, I've talked with a number of Tor people about how the project is portrayed in the media. As a reporter on this beat, the many legitimate criticisms the community have had strike pretty close to home for me. I don't think I

Re: [tor-talk] How does Tor help abuse victims?

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 13:20, Sebastian G. wrote: I appear to lack imagination on how Tor helps abuse victims. Since some of you are involved with some organizations working in that field, I hope you give some insight. Personally I see no benefit in using Tor from the point of view of an abuse victim. B

Re: [tor-talk] Wikimedia and Tor

2014-10-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 2014-10-01 09:57, Derric Atzrott wrote: About once a year the topic of Tor comes up on Wikimedia's technical mailing list. I recently raised the topic again. For those who aren't aware of the situation, currently Wikimedia blocks all edits from Tor users. We are trying to find a way that it

Re: [tor-talk] TPO/TBB clone on SourceForge, use of TPO name

2014-09-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/22/2014 05:42 PM, grarpamp wrote: > What's the trac ticket for these, or this sort of thing? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11515 Sourceforge/Dice don't care. We even sent them snail mail to no effect. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982

Re: [tor-talk] Misogyny on tor-talk is an existential threat to Tor (was: Re: Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.)

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
I just read through this massive thread. I agree with killing the thread. The topic is important, but now no longer constructive for tor-talk. Please no more replies to the thread. Thanks. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@l

Re: [tor-talk] Misogyny on tor-talk is an existential threat to Tor

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/15/2014 07:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Those who matter do. A well written article or two on such things > would undoubtedly be useful on occasion to point to, and in this > (type of) thread in particular, it seems to me that referring to such > an article early on may be about the most

Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

2014-09-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/13/2014 06:35 PM, The Doctor wrote: > "Reports have surfaced that Comcast agents have contacted customers > using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk > termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called > Tor an “illegal service.” The Comcast agent tol

Re: [tor-talk] What should our 31c3 talk be?

2014-09-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 09/08/2014 08:05 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > The 31c3 talk proposals are due this coming Sunday: > http://events.ccc.de/2014/07/12/31c3-call-for-participation-en/ > > I wonder what would be the most useful topic for this year? Let the community speak about Tor and tell their stories about us

Re: [tor-talk] dutch police crawling hidden servers

2014-08-05 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 08/05/2014 01:58 PM, Rejo Zenger wrote: > How would they have done that? Of course, there are wiki's listing > hidden services, but they are most likely far from complete and I > wouldn't expect websites with hardcore child abuse to be "advertised" > there. So, what do you think this crawler

Re: [tor-talk] how many verify their tbb ?

2014-07-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 02:09:12PM +1000, shm...@riseup.net wrote 0.3K bytes in 0 lines about: : are there any stats available to see the % of people who verify their : tbb download (cross ref same IP for both the .xz and .asc or shasum txt : file ???) as a % of total tbb downloads ? Here's a rou

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Phishing in the Wild // Old Sigs

2014-06-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/24/2014 04:25 PM, Rich Jones wrote: > I'm just posting this stuff here for analysis and discussion, not because I > need the tech support. But good advice if there were those out there who > fell for this scam. Thanks Rich. I've opened https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12458 to

Re: [tor-talk] Including Tor into millions of products.

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/14/2014 03:09 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: > The questions that pop in my head are: > > 1) What kind of products are that? (Businesses or End-Consumer market?) Yes and yes. > 2) What is the intended use-case? (Usage of the Tor network? > Contribution to the Tor network? Both?) Privacy through

Re: [tor-talk] Non-free country law preventing Tor from getting donations

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/14/2014 03:21 AM, Sebastian G. wrote: > That has to be a violation of your rights. It's the law in the USA. Regardless of how one feels about it, it's currently against the law. The citizen resided in a country as listed as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_

Re: [tor-talk] Norse Darklist, for blocking Tor

2014-06-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/10/2014 06:17 PM, grarpamp wrote: > " > http://www.norse-corp.com/darklist.html > > The world's first comprehensive blacklist of the Internet's highest risk IPs. IPs are for routing, not reputation. Ugh. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 https://www.torproject.org/ +1-781-948-1982 -- tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:41:50PM -0400, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Ahhh, many thanks for the clarification. Details on this were very : spotty, and I didn't want to speculate. It would be safe to assume details are still spotty. Until someone actually publishe

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Financials [was: General...proxy]

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:37:39AM -0400, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 1.1K bytes in 0 lines about: : > : > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2012-financial-docs : : 2011 Expenses pie chart : Where is rent, legal, internet/hosting, marketing, capex? It's buried in the a

Re: [tor-talk] DOJ's Tor traffic estimates - reference?

2014-05-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:40:51AM -0400, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 0.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : Is there a good reference for the assertion by DOJ that 3% of Tor's : traffic is "bad"/used for piracy/etc? This has been referenced in a few : talks, but was just wondering if this is written a

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:24:06AM +0200, pipat...@gmail.com wrote 1.5K bytes in 0 lines about: : I think that's a rather arrogant point of view. If it was not a Tor : problem, .onion would not be needed in the first place. Tor developers do : seem to work hard on making it difficult for a user to

Re: [tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

2014-05-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:39:24PM +0200, pipat...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : 2) Has Tor applied to ICANN about the .onion domain, or discussed the pro : and con of doing this? We didn't apply, but when inquiring about it, they wanted us to provide trademark proof (which we ha

Re: [tor-talk] Disabling the warning for self signed certificates in Tor Browser

2014-04-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:07:02AM +, antispa...@sent.at wrote 2.2K bytes in 0 lines about: : A self-signed certificate is better than no certificate. Given the : trouble with a CA, it might be just as good as a CA certificate. Perhaps a better complaint for Mozilla than Tor. -- Andrew pgp

Re: [tor-talk] Plans to bring safe Firefox to Android?

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:52:45PM +, anonymous.cow...@posteo.de wrote 1.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Thus, is there plans to create a Firefox for mobile that is safe to use : with Tor? Just like the browser bundle for desktop systems. Guardian recommends using Firefox with Proxymob. They don

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project and Youtube is blocked in Turkey too

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 05:01:00PM +0200, kusbu...@riseup.net wrote 0.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Today, Tor Project and Youtube websites are blocked in Turkey by the : biggest Turkish ISP, TTNet. However, other ISPs in Turkey will block them : too. Besides, I'm not sure they're going to block Ex

Re: [tor-talk] Court in Greece acquits Tor exit node operator, accused of visiting child porn website

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:56:41AM +0200, irregula...@riseup.net wrote 4.7K bytes in 0 lines about: : On Tuesday March 18th 2014 an important case about Tor relay operators : came to court in Athens, Greece. All started back in February 2011, when : : The court acquitted the defendant. Thanks fo

Re: [tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 08:06:11PM +0100, li...@infosecurity.ch wrote 1.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : From a "Security-Wise" point of view, if i was the IT Security Manager : of a company, i would definitively block Tor's access to my IT : infrastructure. As a former head of IT for a global compan

Re: [tor-talk] Torproject frontpage content

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:00:04AM -0500, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Noticed that the frontpage mentions location/anonymity : but doesn't actually say anything about encryption shielding : your thoughts and interactions from your first hop ISP/employer/wifi/etc. : Loca

Re: [tor-talk] Pissed off about Blacklists, and what to do?

2014-03-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 05:22:14AM -0500, grarp...@gmail.com wrote 3.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Theory: Tor is being blocked mostly due to negative news media : perception, and kneejerk catchall solutions taking the cheap and : dumb route to systems and policy... not due to balanced acceptable :

Re: [tor-talk] Problems installing Tor on my server

2014-03-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:47:47PM +, d.dr...@gmail.com wrote 2.1K bytes in 0 lines about: : I'm trying to install Tor on my Centos5 server. I have been running an old : version of Tor as a relay for several years, installed via yum from one of : the Centos repos. I realised I wasn't doing a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor plugin for Nagios

2014-03-02 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 08:41:13AM +0300, r...@goodvikings.com wrote 1.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : Heya List Please use tor-relays OR tor-talk, don't cross lists. -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to ht

Re: [tor-talk] Adblock for everyone

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 05:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Alice Anderson wrote: > Why you have HTTPSEverywhere and Noscript by default but not > Adblockplus on TBB package? it really helps and blcok major tracking > companies like Google Facebook ... Tor is not perfect, as almost all > web pages have inserted at l

Re: [tor-talk] BBG and Tor funding

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 23:49:47 +0100 mick wrote: > "• This article was amended on 4 October after the Broadcasting Board > of Governors pointed out that its support of Tor ended in October > 2012." Actually, the BBG contract ended in June 2013. > So. How does this square with BBG's alleged support

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:22:54 -0400 David Green wrote: > I have an Intel and it is possible I shall have to compile the > openssl. Assume you're compiling everything. With unsupported OSes, you'll learn to love gcc and its quirks. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mail

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:29:14 -0400 David Green wrote: > I imagine, like "homebrew" (mainly for PPC), I would like to > eventually set-up a web-site, or sourceforge presence, for *Luddite* > like myself ;) Back when I had an OS X 10.4 PPC machine, I had to compile everything myself, this is tor,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor companies

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:14:17 -0700 coderman wrote: > in addition "The Tor Project, Inc." there appears to be related: > > "Tor Solutions Corporation" - Tor Solutions Corporation in Walpole, MA > is a private company categorized under Website Design Services. Our > records show it was established

Re: [tor-talk] Bandwidth Scheduling for Relays

2013-09-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:34:43 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > I have a feature request. It would be nice for a future version of > Tor to allow scheduling at least one alternate values for > RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst for a span of time. This > would allow relays to operate at higher

Re: [tor-talk] Tor browser can be fingerprinted

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Marthin Miller wrote: > Hi. The main problem for what you made public as Tor software is that > it uses 1024bit RSA keys which can be cracked in a few hours and > compromise Tor path. Do you have a source for this claim? All I've seen is speculation abou

Re: [tor-talk] GCHQ 'Tor Events' Capture... (scribd.com)

2013-09-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:09:30 +0200 Eugen Leitl wrote: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/ https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torp

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:16:06 -0700 Mike Perry wrote: > 3. Find better meds > 4. Go fuck off Personal attacks like this are unacceptable. Let's keep it mature and civil, even in the face of immaturity and incivility on other sides. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mail

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:02:24 -0700 bm-2d9whbg2vekslcsgbtplgwdlqypizsq...@bitmessage.ch wrote: > Thanks; please see > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9614. Thanks. > Can anyone working for the Tor Project comment on its U.S. Department > of Defense funded activities beyond what a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:18:31 -0700 bm-2d9whbg2vekslcsgbtplgwdlqypizsq...@bitmessage.ch wrote: > Despite this transparency on Tor's own website, Tor's "Sponsors" page > at https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en currently lists > its largest donor as "an anonymous NGO." > > Isn't SRI "an

Re: [tor-talk] Isn't it time to ADMIT that Tor is cracked by now??

2013-08-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:48:57 -0300 Juan Garofalo wrote: > Yeah. I find it kind of odd that no one here is saying > anything about freedom hosting. I saw some discussion in Roger > Dingledine's blog, but it was just one post (plus hundred of > comments), but a blog isn't the best medium fo

Re: [tor-talk] Exit bridges / Tor VPN terminals

2013-08-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:20:52 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > > There are no official "exit bridges" provided as part of Tor > > network. However you could setup your traffic to go through Tor to > > a regular VPN or proxy service and then exit to the destination you > > want. > > - This exit bridges is

Re: [tor-talk] So what about Pirate Browser?

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:13:10 + adrelanos wrote: > It would be more effective if The Tor Project contacted sourceforge > and complained. For the record, we have at least twice. We've now engaged lawyers. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lis

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Check Problem?

2013-08-09 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:21:40PM -0400, and...@torproject.is wrote 0.4K bytes in 0 lines about: : It seems we're getting a flood of IPv6 traffic to the server. We're : investigating. Looks most like someone was trying to use tordnsel wrong and flooded the server with queries for every page view

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Check Problem?

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:10:31 -0400 Webmaster wrote: > anyone know whats going on with tor check? It seems we're getting a flood of IPv6 traffic to the server. We're investigating. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusb

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Freedom Hosting Owner Arrested, Tormail Compromised, Malicious JS Discovered

2013-08-04 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 06:34:10 +0300 bpmcontrol wrote: > did not see this here, might interest some. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-events-and-freedom-hosting -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To uns

[tor-talk] Ninja Stik?

2013-07-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
Anyone used one of these "ninja stik" usb drives? http://www.ninjastik.com It seems to be stock ubuntu with tor installed. People keep coming to me asking how come we called it ninja stik and why we used ubuntu when we have tails. The first question is why people think we produce it at all. --

Re: [tor-talk] What would you put on a a Tor Wishlist?

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:59:08 + andrew wrote: > Its the holiday, lets dream a little. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorZ is our collecting place for dreams of tor. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — July 3rd, 2013

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:14:06 +0200 Lunar wrote: > > Tor Weekly News July 3rd, > 2013 > > > Welcome to the ver

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Cat S wrote: > I'm not the one asking for help here, the thread starter is, that's > person you should be addressing in terms of helping him/her search. > And maybe you need to search a little more too, considering what you > suggested seems at add to what

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Cat S wrote: > > Good luck finding anything that's not completely obvious on the Tor > Project website or these mailing lists . . . if we had a Tor forum > finding your answer would have been super simple and you wouldn't > have had to even ask this quest

Re: [tor-talk] Recommended method for updating an existing TBB

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:44:53 +1000 bvvq wrote: > How do other users update their existing TBB software? > Are my steps for updating incorrect or unsafe? > Is there a recommended method for updating an existing TBB software? Extracting over existing Tor Browser is strongly discouraged. Installing

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Listing (Apache) Bug Found on torproject.org

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:57:01 +0500 Ali Hasan Ghauri wrote: > It is Directory Listing (Apache) . An attacker can see the files > located in the directory and could potentially access files which > disclose sensitive information . This is by design. The smarter attacker would just download the web

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Cat S wrote: > 1. Why is it you didn't answer my main question, that I and others > have asked (in and out of my thread): Where did the money go that was > earmarked for the forum? <<< please answer that question specifically. The money went to staff and

Re: [tor-talk] Relay Only?

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:18:20 -0700 Warren Michelsen wrote: > Is there a Linux OS that is best for a Tor relay? (A server > installation, perhaps?) Does it matter? Doesn't matter. I've run a relay on my phone in the past. > Is there a Tor "relay" download or must I install the client to be > able

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:33 -0400 Andrew Lewman wrote: > > In the meantime, I've synced the mirrors to create this url, which > > should be up shortly: > > https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/3.0a1 > > I ended up removing this directory because we ran out of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:33:07 -0700 Mike Perry wrote: > I would like to blog about these bundles tomorrow morning. Where can > they go for that announcement? Leaving them on people is fine with me. > I don't appear to have access to archive, nor do I have the > infrastructure to set up and seed

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:44:14 -0700 Micah Lee wrote: > But soon (maybe Monday with your blog post) they will be here too? > https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/linux/ Really, you should be using archive.torproject.org, not www. archive links aren't likely to change ever. The main web serve

Re: [tor-talk] Plans about Askbot?

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:04:08 +0200 "Sebastian G. " wrote: > You had ask.TPO with Askbot already running and it is still running. > All it seems to take is an active community that feeds it with > questions and answers them. The askbot software needs work itself, and there's the enhancements we'd

tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:03:13 +0200 "Sebastian G. " wrote: > I'd like to raise concerns about third-party Q&As and discuss them. We've had this discussion for the past year or so, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5995 and https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3592

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

2013-06-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:59:34 +0300 irregula...@riseup.net wrote: > So since Vidalia is removed, there is no easy way for the average user > to run a relay? Or you will still distribute packages with Vidalia for > this exact reason? Vidalia isn't need to run a relay, it just gives it more eye cand

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] rewriting a text

2013-05-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:54:40 +0200 NoName wrote: > I have been reading lately about the ability to fingerprint an user > based on the particularities of writing. Each person has a > prefference for certain words, makes certain spelling mistakes, and > so on. And the more text the better for the

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and IRC documentation

2013-05-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 17 May 2013 23:17:41 +0200 NoName wrote: > I was looking for documentation for some friend about how to get on > the IRC via Tor. Because it's easier to send a link than write a > manual. Anyway I got https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/ > and noticed someone has spammed the IRC

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-04-29 Thread Andrew Lewman
This guy is annoying. He's been emailing any address at Tor he can find. I'm not responding to him any more. Basically, he's asking for money to keep our wiki clean. He's implied in the past that if we don't pay him, we'll be spammed ruthlessly. On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:13:14 +0400 torwiki wrote:

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and BitCoin miner trojans - perfect pair

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:15:52 -0400 "David H. Lipman" wrote: > I wonder what OTHER malware I am missing that is using the Tor > network to obfuscate the malicious activity. Replace "Tor network" with "Internet" and the statement is the same. Jerks use tools to be jerks. Good people use tools to b

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:57:26 +1000 bvvq wrote: > There's nothing on the page that explicitly states it. Put up or shut > up, please. Play nice, children. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:34:21 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > My main issue with sites that are Tor aware and then take action > against Tor nodes specifically, is that most seem to say > they get attacks, spam, illegal stuff from Tor. While true, that > is a drop in the pond when compared to from the int

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:59:45 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > Noticed a recent surge of sites using CloudFlare. Actually, I've talked to cloudflare in the recent past. They don't block Tor per se, they rate limit connections/request per IP address. While I don't agree with this model, it seems consisten

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:20:02 + adrelanos wrote: > Paul Syverson: > > http://www.onion-router.net/History.html > > > > covers what I said and then some, basically gives a brief history > > roughly 1995-2005. Althought the site seems to be down right now. > > How long will that page be availa

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 09:00:00 -0400 Paul Syverson wrote: > http://www.onion-router.net/History.html > > covers what I said and then some, basically gives a brief history > roughly 1995-2005. Althought the site seems to be down right now. Maybe the Navy is blocking it. Site has 100% uptime since mi

Re: [tor-talk] Tor transparent proxy leaks?

2013-04-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:40:50 + James Russell wrote: > After setting up my computer (Debian Squeeze 6.0) to transparently > proxy all my traffic over tor, I decided to verify it by visiting > check.torproject.org with chromium. Use tor browser or don't bother. Tor only supports TCP. -- An

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Question - Not saving settings

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:04:50 + adrelanos wrote: > Guess the trademark holders never filed a complaint. As the trademark holder, it's a work in progress. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] VOIP over Tor

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:08:39 +0200 "Van Gegel" wrote: > I found that this is a very old idea: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2006-May/thread.html#13379 > But why for 6 years no one is interested? Because most VOIP is UDP, and Tor doesn't support UDP. See https://lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] Does TorProject Delay eMail Postings ?

2013-03-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:47:50 -0700 Bry8 Star wrote: > Hi, > Almost everytime i post an email message in TorProject mailing list, > i get that email back to my folder after at-least 18 mins (minutes) > or later, almost never in shorter time period than that ! > > why is that ? Read your mail ser

Re: [tor-talk] Torproject.org Being Censored in Canada

2013-03-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:41:19 -0400 Andrew Paolucci wrote: > I made a disturbing discovery for me and my fellow Canucks today when > I was sitting at a Tim Hortons(very popular coffee chain in Canada > that provides free WiFi) enjoying my coffee while working on my > laptop. Tim Horton's filters

Re: [tor-talk] Replace Tor directory authority with DHT?

2013-03-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:03:19 + adrelanos wrote: > Has it been considered to replace the Tor directory authority with a > Distributed Hash Table? See this thread, https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-January/027172.html -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] Bugtracker registrationt buggy

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:31:20 +0100 kwadronaut wrote: > I tried to sign up a week or 2 ago at the trac instance. It told me I > would get some confirmation url by mail, but it never tried contacting > my mailserver. According to the mail server logs, the message was sent successfully. > So cons

Re: [tor-talk] Problem about Tor website

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:03:17 +0900 Nam Su wrote: > I know Tor http website redirects Https version website but http site > couldn't open or slowly than Tor connection. > > Is it government's sensor? http://torproject.org redirects to https://www.torproject.org automatically on our webservers. I

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:51:55 -0800 (PST) Mysterious Flyer wrote: > Yes, thank you.  That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  I was > thinking that the Tor Project ought to have a list of super-trusted > hidden services, as well as a list of known violators.  We're not going to become a directory

Re: [tor-talk] TBB download mirror or p2p?

2013-02-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:36:37 +0100 David Balažic wrote: > > The TBB download > > is quite slow, getting about 100KB/s (much faster line...). > > Is this a temporarily (over)load of the server? Did you happen to see whi

Re: [tor-talk] Tails 0.16: Why the fsck does Tails 0.16 use an ancient version of OpenSSL? And has it been crippled somehow?

2013-02-08 Thread Andrew Lewman
Perhaps you want to get in touch with the tails team, https://tails.boum.org/support/index.en.html -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listin

Re: [tor-talk] are 1984.is good guys?

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:36:10 +0100 Eugen Leitl wrote: > > I take https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/iceland > as an official endorsement of 1984.is for freedom-minded > hosting. > > Is that a correct interpretation? The Tor Project doesn't officially endorse anything. We use 1984.is for

Re: [tor-talk] TOR Fone - p2p secure and anonymous VoIP tool

2013-02-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 12:47:51 -0500 Roger Dingledine wrote: > I'll try to find some time to contact the person off-line and suggest > changing the name to 'OnionFone' or something more generic. Please > feel free to do so in parallel to me, since I know somebody here has > much more free time than

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: inreasing MaxClientCircuitsPending useful?

2013-02-01 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:50:56 +0100 Quan wrote: > > 2) Bump the parameter value to whatever seems useful. > > I asked exactly this: which value should I use? > And whether should I change it at all (because I do no understand from > man page whether this would help me) My guess is, no one knows.

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:41:50 +0100 "Sebastian G. " wrote: > > How far along is the Directory Server decentralization in general? > > If you talk about DHT (distributed hash tables) to bootstrap rather > than fetching the consensus from a central place or a mirror... I > remember that it wasn't sa

Re: [tor-talk] torbrowser with tor 0.2.3.25

2013-01-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:39:01 -0500 (EST) benjaminlinc...@lavabit.com wrote: > I noticed Tor Browser does not use the official stable release of tor. > Does using Tor Browser's firefox with tor 0.2.3.25 hurt anonymity? Tor 0.2.3.25 is the official stable release of Tor. What version do you think i

Re: [tor-talk] Mosh safe with tor?

2013-01-18 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:40:14 +0100 Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: > Hello! > > Does anyone know, is the Mosh shell safe for tor use? Any known > leaking? It's UDP-based, so no. And it appears to be based upon one person's mods to AES. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 _

Re: [tor-talk] Cupcake: browser extension for flash proxies

2013-01-07 Thread Andrew Lewman
An administrative note, please don't cross-post lists. Choose one. Thanks. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Caught by mailing list filter?

2012-12-28 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:23:37 - anon3...@tormail.org wrote: > This is strange. Message [1] is visible in the web archive but not > one got a mail. In my inbox is what is on the archive. You don't receive your own messages by default. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Tor

2012-12-24 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:10:04 + sophia.martin.2...@gmail.com wrote: > Can somebody pleease direct me to where I can opt out of this > constant emails that I am not even involved in. Please help I get > around 4 emails per day. I just removed you manually. Cheers. -- Andrew http://tpo.i

Re: [tor-talk] tor versus freenet

2012-12-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:25:35 +0100 folkert wrote: > In short: can't we combine these two? Others have done it, so it can be done. Others have combined tor and tahoe-lafs as well. I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you throwing the idea out there to see if others agree and can help? Or do you h

Re: [tor-talk] Make Wifi available through Tor?

2012-12-17 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:13:45 + t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: > I wouldn't let my mother do her online banking over Tor without > explaining to her exactly how it works, and making sure she > understands what she is doing. Even if a bad exit node didn't SSL > strip her connection, she could st

Re: [tor-talk] 'cached-descriptors' replaced with 'cached-microdescs'

2012-12-12 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:39:38 +0530 (IST) basmati kasaar wrote: > 'atlas.torproject.org' appears to contain very, very little useful > informations and no informations on specific exit port availability > per router. The full exit policy is on atlas, here's a current exit relay: https://atlas.to

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia Bundle (Tor, Polipo & Vidalia)

2012-12-06 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:47:40 + Julian Yon wrote: > Sorry? Are you being deliberately obtuse? You can obtain Polipo for > yourself. I even gave you the URL for the author's site to save you a > Google search. Julian, there's no need for personal attacks. I understand he's upset, and we didn't

Re: [tor-talk] does tor browse bundle really work on UNIX, BSD, etc

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
tarb...@mixnym.net wrote: >I downloaded the tbb again and I noticed there is only one version for >Linux, UNIX and BSD. I thought these were all totally different >operating >systems. I just started with Ubuntu a few months ago so maybe I am >wrong. Does the tbb really work everywhere or is the co

Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:27:48 -0600 Landon Campbell wrote: > other messages logged, and the circuit is not changed. Is there > anyone who could tell me what I'm doing wrong? From https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/control-spec.txt#l375 The key phrase to highlight is "so new app

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + (GMT) Dan Hughes wrote: > Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick > and downloading files (.PDFs, S&M vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but > not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or > downloaded being written to the HD at a

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