Re: [tor-talk] help us:Korean government started to fine netizen who download child pornography without child

2012-10-20 Thread Lee Whitney
Eugen do you have children? Not attacking you based on this but I'm curious how it affects perspective. In my mind it's pretty easy to drawn the line, things that have victims should usually be illegal and things that are unpopular but don't hurt anyone usually should be legal. No slippery slope

Re: [tor-talk] help us:Korean government started to fine netizen who download child pornography without child

2012-10-20 Thread Lee Whitney
In the US it seems there is a lot the FBI could be doing about Tor services like these but I'm not sure what their staff's level of knowledge is. Do FBI computer guys stick mostly to "forensics" using off the shelf tools, or do they also have software developers and people who consider theoretical

Re: [tor-talk] Is this a practical vulnerability?

2012-10-19 Thread Lee Whitney
ge of how the hidden services are >vulnerable.) > >Be safe! > > - Lasse > > > >On 19. okt. 2012 05:12, Lee Whitney wrote: >> I was reading a paper on discovering hidden service locations, and >>couldn't find any reason it shouldn't work in principle. &

Re: [tor-talk] Is this a practical vulnerability?

2012-10-19 Thread Lee Whitney
There are actually two possible explanations for what you saw: 1) Tor was compromised 2) Your IP was discovered Maybe the test request you made logged your IP and then it could be anywhere. Also as you know people are constantly scanning subnets for servers. I don't discount go

[tor-talk] Is this a practical vulnerability?

2012-10-18 Thread Lee Whitney
I was reading a paper on discovering hidden service locations, and couldn't find any reason it shouldn't work in principle. However being that I'm a Tor novice, I wanted ask here. In a nutshell they propose throwing some modified Tor nodes out there that modify the protocol enough to track down