Re: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor users.

2014-07-14 Thread Mark McCarron
increased exponentially: http://www.truthfulpolitics.com/images/us-federal-debt-by-president-political-party.jpg Trillions are going somewhere, so whatever it is, it is big and they are willing to undermine the financial health of the nation to deliver it. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun,

Re: [tor-talk] Questions about NSA monitoring of Tor users.

2014-07-13 Thread Mark McCarron
ilitary project for the last decade or more??? It would seem to indicate that there is a Manhatten-style project underway. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:14:30 + > From: simonsn...@openmailbox.org > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-talk] Que

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
Except that we know that such an attack is underway through PRISM and that no one made any moves to fix it. How long has it been now??? A year??? By any measure I am sure we can call that material assistance. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 17:55:18 -0400 > From

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
e basics of it. It needs fully fleshed out but to the end user it would be a CPanel like interface and a standard website with DB support. I'll see about expanding on this. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:00:59 -0400 > From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil > To: tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
d and what is being done about it. That will tell everyone what they need to know. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:26:04 -0400 > From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Sec

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
software, be it Tor or Freenet (etc), then quantify the information (data points) available and what inferences can be made from them. Then annoy the hell out of the developers until they eliminate each data point. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:18:40 -0300 > From

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
your reply are little more than Fud. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 14:36:08 -0400 > From: paul.syver...@nrl.navy.mil > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and > Anonymity > > On Tue, Ju

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
and hidden services, whilst pretending to provide anonymity. I don't see anyone denying it. Do you? Its been 6 days already. Regards, Mark McCarron > From: fuersch...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 18:39:13 +0200 > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-07-01 Thread Mark McCarron
Krishna, Please. You are a PC repair guy who can install Linux. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:10:28 -0400 > From: k...@cyblings.on.ca > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and > Ano

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
ers without any indication what happened." Mark McCarron - June 25th If he attempts to insinuate that I was accessing or attempting access illegal material again, I will sue him. He obviously has a problem, not with me, but the discussion about securing Tor against intelligence agencies wi

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
Mick, I would be very careful what you claim in your emails. I have the capability of suing you into oblivion, that email constitutes defamation. Nothing like that was ever said, either retract it or I will take you for everything that you've got. Your choice. Regards, Mark McCarron

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
nd-to-end traffic analysis to protect hidden services. Certainly there are questions about Tor and its devs, but the final implementation can be reviewed independently. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:45:12 +0200 > From: a.k...@gmx.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-30 Thread Mark McCarron
ut, no one makes any moves to correct the situation. That pretty much tells everyone what they needed to know about Tor and its developers. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:02:24 +1000 > From: z...@freedbms.net > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject:

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
oing somewhere and as its metadata, that implies traffic analysis. So, its a patchwork model and the costs are spread across many nations and information sharing to isolate sites is policy driven. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:14:18 -0700 > From: coder...@gmai

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
statement is missing and why it was never implemented. Just by asking those questions, we can better observe the intentions, or at least make people squirm a little. :) Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:45:43 -0400 > From: mikew...@riseup.net > To: tor-talk@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
er to that in the future versions of Tor. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:54:03 -0400 > From: a...@mit.edu > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and > Anonymity > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
was an unfortunate accident. Regards, Mark McCarron Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:41:55 +0100 From: m...@rlogin.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:11:18 +0100 Mark McCarron allegedly

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
mplex", keep in mind that I am a security specialist too and know that to be untrue. I don't mean to be confrontational in any way, but the credibility of this project is on the line here. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:31:20 -0400 > From: a...@mit.edu >

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-29 Thread Mark McCarron
only assume that you're a sock puppet for an intelligence agency who has started to panic about the network going truly dark. Deal with it. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:02:25 +1000 > From: z...@freedbms.net > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subje

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-28 Thread Mark McCarron
to-end visibility is gone. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:19:00 -0300 > From: juan@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and > Anonymity > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:48:27 -0

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-27 Thread Mark McCarron
modify it. That's a complex design, but robust and the traffic analysis would yield little-to-no actionable information. Does anyone have any other ideas? Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:38:01 -0300 > From: juan@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-27 Thread Mark McCarron
What other consistent factors are there? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
arrived or remained even after the Freedom Hosting bust. I think everyone needs to stop looking for excuses and start examining why this is happening and fix it. Otherwise, this project is a waste of time. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:15:26 -0600 > From: miri...@rise

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
cage' that indicates the overall effectiveness of the Tor platform. The canary is dead. Something is wrong with Tor and we need to find it. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:53:50 -0700 > From: coder...@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject:

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
Anonymous is an astro-turfed cover for the CIA. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:16:48 -0300 > From: juan@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and > Anonymity > > On Wed,

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
best, at worst, non-existent. Anyway, this is off-topic, so I won't be delving into this any further. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:36:06 -0400 > From: ape...@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metr

Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
and Security of Tor? The software is compromised in some fashion and we need to understand this. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:17:41 -0500 > From: joebtfs...@gmx.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of

[tor-talk] Illegal Activity As A Metric of Tor Security and Anonymity

2014-06-25 Thread Mark McCarron
been compromised on a global scale with very little fanfare or moves to correct the situation. Does anyone have any insights into the problem? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other

Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

2014-01-25 Thread Mark McCarron
ng on here? Mark McCarron Lunar wrote: >Joe Btfsplk: >> I missed the memo on all reasons why Vidalia - bad, Tor Launcher - >> good. > >At least: >http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/papers/2007_soups.pdf >http://petsymposium.org/2012/papers/hotpets12-1-usability.pdf

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 +0000, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > > > > In fac

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 +0000, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > > In regards to ide

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] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
> Point by point. > > > Javascript, by itself, is not an issue and poses no more of a security > > threat than any other type of data transferred online. Coding errors in > > image handling, html parsing, ftp, etc., can all be used to inject code. > > Note that (potential) privilege escalatio

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
We're not discussing censorship, but the removal of potential exploitable data. Its not a keyword system, it removes cookies, web bugs, adds jitter to timings, etc. It can be disabled with a click. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:56:41 -0500 > From: and...@

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
connections. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:00:41 +0100 > From: a.k...@gmx.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript > > On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:58:49 +0000, Mark McCarron wrote: > ... > >

Re: [tor-talk] Risk of selectively enabling JavaScript

2014-01-07 Thread Mark McCarron
explicitly allow that by clicking a button. That said, all of this is a complete waste of time if Tor does not start integrating techniques to prevent traffic analysis. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 05:09:23 -0500 > From: mikewol...@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torpr

[tor-talk] Partial View Traffic Analysis

2013-12-18 Thread Mark McCarron
one else investigated this approach? If so, what were your results? Regards, Mark McCarron -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Android browser?

2013-12-09 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:57:56 -0300 > From: juan@gmail.com > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Android browser? > > > > --On Monday, December 09, 2013 1:11 AM + Mark McCarron > wrote: > > >

Re: [tor-talk] Android browser?

2013-12-08 Thread Mark McCarron
Mark McCarron Nathan Freitas wrote: >On 12/07/2013 07:59 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: >> I would be wary of Android. Its is complex to secure given the >closed nature of most handsets. > >Do you have a mobile OS of choice that you feel is more trustworthy, or >are you referr

Re: [tor-talk] Android browser?

2013-12-07 Thread Mark McCarron
have been designed to be accessible by governments is a wise bet. It probably the real reason behind devices not providing root access or the ability to do custom installs and the various laws to enforce that. Mark McCarron Original Message From: Nathan Freitas Sent: Sun Dec 08

Re: [tor-talk] Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself

2013-11-29 Thread Mark McCarron
n. So, this is about backdooring TOR, nothing else. That alone, at least to me, indicates that the IETF is pretty much NSA, or representing their interests. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. I vote no. Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:47:48 +0100

Re: [tor-talk] "Safeplug"

2013-11-23 Thread Mark McCarron
How about a certification program? A company can donate some funds to have their product evaluated and if successful gain "TOR Certified" status. It would stop all this nonsense and provide everyone the opportunity to request specific features or amendments to designs. I understand that no on

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-20 Thread Mark McCarron
It will not be a fork. Anything I do will be submitted for inclusion in the main branch when ready. Quite a number of the changes I mentioned are in the pipeline anyway. Mark McCarron Original Message From: Red Sonja Sent: Tue Nov 19 19:07:31 GMT+00:00 2013 To: tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-19 Thread Mark McCarron
Regards, Mark McCarron > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:01:58 + > From: bm-2ctpedtadjx2bqf6wuux1cper78sq3x...@bitmessage.ch > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements > > Mark McCarron: > > This will a

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-19 Thread Mark McCarron
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:47:06 +0100 > From: t...@unterderbruecke.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/19/2013 06:50 AM, Mark McC

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:11:40 +0100 > From: t...@unterderbruecke.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/18/2013 05:23 PM, Mark McCar

[tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
With all the recent crack downs on civil liberties, seizure of TOR services and general censorship that is now hitting even mainstream search engines, I would like to propose a set of new services and some enhancements to the network layer to improve anonymity. We need to get as much support as