Re: [tor-talk] Strange Vanguards behavior? And some related questions!

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Perry
eady for inclusion in Tor itself in terms of being well-understood, but even this piece by itself is a large engineering effort that currently has no funding to complete. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

2016-08-22 Thread Mike Perry
es are always better. I've been thinking about making that policy into a torrc option, so it would be useful to know if the situation has changed. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change o

Re: [tor-talk] Traffic shaping attack

2016-04-20 Thread Mike Perry
Oskar Wendel: > Mike Perry : > > > I'm still with Roger on being careful about assuming its an attack (and > > not a bug, or other emergent behavior) before conducting more tests. At > > least, that is what proper engineering and science demands before we can >

Re: [tor-talk] Extend auto-IP-switching-time in TorBrowser (and depending from time of inactivity)

2016-03-22 Thread Mike Perry
acy on the web, since web sessions contain plenty of identifying information when they resume, regardless of what circuit they use. In my not-so-humble opinion here, the Tor network usage should match Tor Browser's identifier protections exactly. Any mismatch is just bad usability

Re: [tor-talk] Traffic shaping attack

2016-03-20 Thread Mike Perry
ate node, or hidden service is taking large amounts of CPU time, this will prevent traffic from flowing while that operation is happening. See: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16585 (though that ticket could use some help with clarity). That single-threaded issue may be exploited by an attack, or it could just be happening naturally. Again, more analysis needed :/. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] How can I speed up my Tor connection?

2015-09-19 Thread Mike Perry
nodes, since almost no one is able to successfully configure and use bridges these days (unfortunately, censorship circumvention maintenance and usability is not a priority for our current sponsors, but this does have some benefits for those precious few who can figure it out). -- Mike Perry

Re: [tor-talk] tor + twitter issues

2015-09-14 Thread Mike Perry
ght. I am not optimistic that Twitter will be any different. Welcome to the Nymwars 2.0! -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Privacy Badger

2015-08-29 Thread Mike Perry
Артур Истомин: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:05:17PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > > Garrett Robinson: > > > On 8/28/15 7:01 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > > > sg.i...@email-postfach.info: > > > >> Hi guys and girls, are there security issues using the priv

Re: [tor-talk] Privacy Badger

2015-08-28 Thread Mike Perry
Garrett Robinson: > On 8/28/15 7:01 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > sg.i...@email-postfach.info: > >> Hi guys and girls, > >> are there security issues using the privacy badger from eff.org with the > >> tor browser ? > >> Or: Is there are a

Re: [tor-talk] Privacy Badger

2015-08-28 Thread Mike Perry
ferences. Others may end up disabling filters (or subsets of them) because they break random stuff (if they could even figure that out). The only way to win the blacklist game is not to play it, I'm afraid. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk maili

Re: [tor-talk] 1PassWord Firefox extension

2015-08-28 Thread Mike Perry
nately, Mozilla has not yet updated the nsIProtocolProxyService documentation (at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIProtocolProxyService) to describe the new channel-based filter. Here's where we landed the patch for the new API, though: https:/

Re: [tor-talk] Can't download my Facebook archive via Tor Browser

2015-08-13 Thread Mike Perry
se also let me know if this ends up being due to either some feature we've patched/disabled in Tor Browser, or due to a recent regression in Tor Browser 5. Thanks! -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscr

Re: [tor-talk] pdf with tor

2015-08-10 Thread Mike Perry
e upgraded to 5.5a1 (also based on Firefox 38-esr, but with the fix included). 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179262#c33 is the statement from Mozilla for FF31 not being vulnerable. They have made a similar statement on the ESR mailinglist (but that does not have open archive

Re: [tor-talk] [TBB] Tor Project's amendments to Firefox about:config

2015-04-28 Thread Mike Perry
seen the design doc, it explains what we did and why: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ I am currently in the process of updating that for 4.5-stable this week. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproje

Re: [tor-talk] Quantum Insert detection for everyone

2015-04-22 Thread Mike Perry
ting a much more comprehensive blog post; it > >will be filled with gory technical details AND it will include > >information on how to use HoneyBadger. HoneyBadger has optional (off > >by default) full-take logging which could enable you to capture a > >zero-day payload from

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle with Chromium

2015-03-10 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: > Seth David Schoen: > > Luis writes: > > > > > What are the reasons that makes building a Tor Browser using Chromium > > > not such a good idea? I recall reading somewhere that while making a Tor > > > Browser with a Chromium base

Re: [tor-talk] TBB update experience

2015-02-28 Thread Mike Perry
e updates.) > > Andreas > > -- > "Totally trivial. Famous last words." > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > ht

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle with Chromium

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Perry
basic security patches is a non-starter for any project involving Chrome. P.S. How I miss the days when the outlandish doomsday scenarios that I imagined were still merely hypothetical. It seems every week a new nightmare comes true. (Man, I sure hope I'm wrong about the likelihood of wid

[tor-talk] Please help evaluate WebRTC for Tor Browser safety

2015-02-09 Thread Mike Perry
set to false. Again, the existing PoC fails in this case for me, but we need more in-depth tests. For more info, see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14836 and https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser-spec.git/tree/audits/FF31_NETWORK_AUDIT -- Mike Perry signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] Krypton Anonymous: A Chromium Tor Browser

2014-11-03 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: > Cyrus Katrak: > > https://github.com/kr36/seaturtle > > > > At a high level: > > - Process per tab security model, with each tab owning it's own in-memory > > state (cache, cookies, local storage, hsts db etc...). > > We've been goi

Re: [tor-talk] Krypton Anonymous: A Chromium Tor Browser

2014-11-03 Thread Mike Perry
n OpenWRT configuration I can give you to monitor for proxy leaks on an upstream router, but you need to be able to configure Tor Bridges to make use of it. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-29 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: > Thomas White: > > I didn't realise my nodes didn't allow the bitcoin port. I'll get > > right on it. > > You may be interested in: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy > > It lists not only the offic

Re: [tor-talk] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-29 Thread Mike Perry
intro for anyone looking to write their first Tor patch. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea (Alex Biryukov / Ivan Pustogarov story)

2014-10-23 Thread Mike Perry
of sacrifice/scarcity could benefit not only Tor users, but also the rest of the Internet as well. It is also interesting because right now, the naive proposal people often make for such systems is "dude, just use Bitcoin, man!", but clearly we now have a catch-22 here (i

Re: [tor-talk] orWall 1.0.0 released!

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: > CJ: > > Hello! > > > > just a small update regarding orWall: it's released 1.0.0! > > There's still *one* annoying issue regarding the tethering, but it > > should be OK next week. Just have to take some time in order to debug > > th

Re: [tor-talk] orWall 1.0.0 released!

2014-10-04 Thread Mike Perry
CJ: > On 04/10/14 00:27, Mike Perry wrote: > > Also looking forward to the "Logs" window doing something :) > > Same for me. This part will be complicated due to different kernel > capabilities: > some supports LOG target, other NFLOG, and the latter doesn't p

Re: [tor-talk] orWall 1.0.0 released!

2014-10-03 Thread Mike Perry
we haven't thought of, or find some way to write a shim on the DNS resolution filesystem socket to enforce what we want. You could list this on a known issues or FAQ page, or in your bugtracker I guess. Making root/UID 0 handle DNS is also a security risk, and I'm very surprised the Androi

Re: [tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Perry
grarpamp: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > I think pushback > > from actual CloudFlare customers will carry far more weight > > Via Tor, I tried to buy some stuff (Stuff) through a shop (Newegg) > that clears its transactions (Bitcoin) through a p

Re: [tor-talk] more sites requiring captchas from Cloudfare (using Google API?)

2014-09-15 Thread Mike Perry
iced that nearly all of the Bitcoin web infrastructure is hosted on Cloudflare. Surely some of those people might be willing to speak up for us. Has anyone else noticed Cloudflare captchas on sites that they would otherwise expect to be run by Tor-friendly entities? -- Mike Perry sig

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.6.5 not on download site?

2014-09-03 Thread Mike Perry
you'd like to avoid this possibility, probably the safest thing to do is simply report on the Tor Browser release the week after. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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

[tor-talk] Dropping Tor Browser support for Mac OSX 10.6?

2014-09-02 Thread Mike Perry
Tails has officially supported UEFI and Mac hardware since Tails v1.1. These ancient Mac users would be much better off in Tails, too. Are there any 10.6 32bit Mac users on this list? Is Tails a workable option for you? -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing

Re: [tor-talk] BBC: NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs', alleges developer

2014-08-25 Thread Mike Perry
iew them very closely, and they usually end up going through a few revisions before we merge them. We obviously subject all contributed patches to careful review like this, regardless of if they are named, pseudonymous, anonymous, or "bobnomnymous". 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28886465 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_Law -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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 app: Torrific

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Perry
n I created this userinit hack: https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/android-hardening/android-firewall/userinit.sh > the app I've done lists the installed application requesting network > access, you just have to check those you're wanting to allow network > access and

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox, Adobe, and DRM

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Perry
. Or worse, they simply do not care. That is indeed deeply troubling. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-05 Thread Mike Perry
it sucks. In fact dangerously so - to the point where I am not optimistic about our ability to have functional computing devices at all in about 5-10 years time unless drastic changes are made: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Perry
nb.linux: > Mike Perry: > > anonymous coward: > >> My special concern is about the baseband CPU. The baseband potentially > >> allows full access to the whole system. And the baseband is closed source. > >> > >> Thus, the baseband is the perfect troja

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Perry
redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor > > > > So free software matters, e.g. by not implementing risky features. > > But it is not a guarantee and may only work sometimes, as it depends on > > the architecture of the phone. -- Mike Perry signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] How safe is smartphones today?

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Perry
> on your device and you can do *nothing* about it. Not nothing. You either need a device without a baseband, or with a hardware isolated baseband. See that blog post. > What do you say? The battle seems lost, just as the whole war seems lost? Nah. It's just going to be kinda trick

Re: [tor-talk] Linux kernel transproxy packet leak (w/ repro case + workaround)

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
text for historical record. Mike Perry: > Hello all, > > I've discovered that the Linux kernel appears to have a leak in how it > applies transproxy rules to the TCP CLOSE_WAIT shutdown condition under > certain circumstances. This applies to both the kernels in use by comm

[tor-talk] Linux kernel transproxy packet leak (w/ repro case + workaround)

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
oup might have different sets of commentary, and both groups should be aware of this issue. Don't be a jerk like me, please. Use your best judgment to Cc one list or the other. -- Mike Perry #!/bin/bash IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables TOR_UID=`id -u debian-tor` NETWORK_USER_ID=1000 # Clear existi

Re: [tor-talk] TBB 3.5 - lot of Unable to connect errors

2013-12-23 Thread Mike Perry
ain" button). > > Regards, > David > -- > 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 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature --

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox DNS leak?

2013-11-14 Thread Mike Perry
d to false, but there may be other prefs involved too. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Mike Perry
olence that apparently did happen on Silk Road can almost certainly be attributed to the social effects of prohibition and related pressures. :/ -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other se

Re: [tor-talk] [monkeysphere] [Fwd: Why the Web of Trust Sucks]

2013-09-30 Thread Mike Perry
doubt many clients are going to be willing to > make that tradeoff. It depends on the mirroring mechanisms available, actually. If the log is widely mirrored, the user needs only to find a way to reach an active mirror. > > ** The Web of Trust is technically capable of multipath authentication > > by itself, but only if you are aware of all of the multiple paths that > > *should* exist. Unfortunately, nothing authenticates the whole Web of > > Trust in its entirety, so it is impossible to use it to reliably verify > > that multiple paths to a key do actually exist and are valid. > > i don't understand this footnote; I’ve never seen anyone claim that "the > web of trust in its entirety" should be authenticated -- i don't even > know what that means. can you clarify? Basically, for the current signature-based authentication mechanism to work, the user needs to be sure that when they download a key and a set of signature paths, they are seeing all of the available paths, rather than a subset chosen/created by the adversary. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Why the Web of Trust Sucks

2013-09-29 Thread Mike Perry
authentication by itself, but only if you are aware of all of the multiple paths that *should* exist. Unfortunately, nothing authenticates the whole Web of Trust in its entirety, so it is impossible to use it to reliably verify that multiple paths to a key do actually exist and are valid. -- Mike

[tor-talk] New GPG key for Mike Perry

2013-09-27 Thread Mike Perry
y old key) at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x29846B3C683686CC Here's the fingerprint and current subkey information for reference: pub 8192R/29846B3C683686CC 2013-09-11 Key fingerprint = C963 C21D 6356 4E2B 10BB 335B 2984 6B3C 6836 86CC uid

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

2013-09-13 Thread Mike Perry
harmony: > Mike Perry: > > > > So this means that if you resize your browser, you also get a > > totally different display fingerprint. However, if you resize it to > > something weird, and continue to use that weird size for a while, > > all of that activity

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

2013-09-13 Thread Mike Perry
uide/CSS/Media_queries To learn about more fingerprinting issues in TBB that could use some help: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-fingerprinting&status=!closed -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-30 Thread Mike Perry
x27;re doing our best with what we have 2. Provide citations to support your conspiracy theories of Tor's subversion 3. Find better meds 4. Go fuck off Pick one. Or more. Whatever. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-30 Thread Mike Perry
Georg Koppen: > On 30.08.2013 09:14, Mike Perry wrote: > > 2. If this was Pirate Browser: > > They are using FoxyProxy, right? Let's assume the PirateBrowser folks > did not deactivate update checks. Then, there should be a similar spike > visible on AMO where FoxyPro

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-30 Thread Mike Perry
e start of the month and the end. It seems that it > > was the confluence of many states increasing their censorship of the > > Internet, especially instances like Vietnam and Facebook. Here is the raw > > data: > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0A

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

2013-08-27 Thread Mike Perry
wledge. I was able to remove my account from the project, and thankfully I have not been re-added, but sf.net did not react to my abuse/trademark violation complaint in any way. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Would Conflux have a positive effect against website fingerprinting?

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Perry
Roger Dingledine: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > > > Supposing it is applied does it help to prevent website fingerprinting > > > to a high extend? (high extend = being costly to circumvent by > > > adversaries) > > >

Re: [tor-talk] Would Conflux have a positive effect against website fingerprinting?

2013-07-14 Thread Mike Perry
tly have not implemented a way to check if a potential bridge relay is fast enough for the "Fast" relay cutoff, for example, let alone making sure users are allocated to them in proportion to bandwidth (which is a much harder problem). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: [tor-talk] Should I warn against Tor?

2013-07-06 Thread Mike Perry
think protocol-level active attacks (such as RPW's hidden service Guard discovery attack, and the Raccoon's bitstomping/tagging attack) are far more likely to be how intelligence agencies and others will attack Tor: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf https://lists.torproj

Re: [tor-talk] Theft of Tor relay private keys?

2013-07-02 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:33:10 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > But I got distracted by more pressing issues before I could finish the > > scripts.. Also, many of those encrypted+authenticated Tor container > > things probably don't make much

Re: [tor-talk] Theft of Tor relay private keys?

2013-07-02 Thread Mike Perry
city. > Would it be able to keep the nickname or would it have to change also? > Would this have effect on the onion address if I had a hidden server? No and no, but your hidden server might have brief downtimes/descriptor publish times that correlate with your key rotation. Not

Re: [tor-talk] Binary patch downloads (for updating TBB)?

2013-06-29 Thread Mike Perry
Nick Mathewson: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > > David Balažic: > >> Hi! > >> > >> You don't realize how big the TBB is until you're forced to use a slow > >> connection. > >> > >> In that light, are

Re: [tor-talk] Binary patch downloads (for updating TBB)?

2013-06-29 Thread Mike Perry
wnloading a new one to replace it, though.. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > > post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. > > > > https://people.torproject.org/~

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

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
:Andreas Krey > > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:15 AM > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds > > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > >

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

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
ve the infrastructure to set up and seed magnet links atm. Should I just serve them out of people, and should Tor Browser Launcher use my people homedir instead of www? In the meantime, I've synced the mirrors to create this url, which should be up shortly: https://www.torproject.org/dist/to

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha is out

2013-06-16 Thread Mike Perry
rspec.git. Fixes bug 8965. > > o Code simplification and refactoring: > - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory > objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead, > build smartlists of strings, and concatenate the

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

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Matt Pagan: > On 6/16/13, Andreas Krey wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:09:28 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > > ... > >> For everyone who is experiencing these crashes: Do you have a system tor > >> installed? If so, if you uninstall it and reboot, does TBB still cra

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

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Andreas Krey: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:09:28 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: > ... > > For everyone who is experiencing these crashes: Do you have a system tor > > installed? If so, if you uninstall it and reboot, does TBB still crash? > > Not sure what 'system tor' i

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

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
le place so that we don't get into a > situation where there's an updated version but TBL can't find it? There will always be a chicken/egg problem here. We need to update the recommended versions file before the bundles get uploaded so that the first people who download them don&

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

2013-06-15 Thread Mike Perry
Matt Pagan: > On 6/15/13, Georg Koppen wrote: > > On 15.06.2013 09:15, Andreas Krey wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +, Mike Perry wrote: > >> ... > >>> Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to > >>> pos

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

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
quot;2.3.25-9-Linux", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-MacOS", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-Windows", > "2.4.12-alpha-2-Linux" > "3.0-alpha-1-Linux" > "3.0-alpha-1-MacOS" > "3.0-alpha-1-Windows" > ] > > There missing commas at the end of

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

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
and sign that tag? > l11n: > At least the German translation should see some improvements before you > do a final release. I'll look into Transifex within the next days. The > blog post announcing the alpha should call for help in that regard. > > Some dial

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

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Perry
or-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/gitian/README.build Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong. https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/ -- Mike Perry sig

Re: [tor-talk] Skype banned tor-nodes?

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Perry
ypothesis is right I ask owners of Exit-nodes, if it > possible, to let that port in their ExitPolicies. Not sure if that's actually the problem, but if the only way you can get to Skype is to use a Bittorrent-supporting exit, it certainly seems like a possibility. Th

Re: [tor-talk] Rewriting a text to avoid stylometry

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Perry
edia.org/wiki/Feature_selection Ad-hoc techniques as simple as making a conscious effort to "sound" like someone else have also been shown to be effective without requiring much practice, but it can also be difficult to break certain key stylistic habits. -- Mike Perry signature.asc

Re: [tor-talk] Finger printing

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Perry
gt; > > > ___ > > tor-talk mailing list > > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > > ___ > tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] torslap!

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Perry
y serve to allow us to more effectively rate limit abuse. 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] HTML5 video and Tor anonymity.

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Perry
t.. I believe we even have an upstream deliverable for a flash sandbox.. Not my area of personal expertise or interest, though. I'm with Steve Jobs on this one: kill that fucker until it is dead. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake grarpamp (grarp...@gmail.com): > >>> It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you > >>> contribute anything to the tor project. > > Mike does a good deal of fine work for the Tor project. > And I'm happy to see the

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-13 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Seth David Schoen (sch...@eff.org): > Alex M (Coyo) writes: > > > It concerns me that you [Mike Perry] refer to "we" as though you > > contribute anything to the tor project. > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/ > https://www.torproject.org/torb

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Alex M (Coyo) (c...@darkdna.net): > On 04/13/2013 12:13 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > >If you have a specific list of design flaws that aren't couched in > >long rants, we can perhaps help instruct you on how you might > >solve them in your redesign with Mr Dis

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
rocess. Otherwise, thanks for your concern/veiled threats/trolling. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Bridge Communities?

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Perry
etection > and interception, but goes further than that, and makes traffic > itself plausibly deniable, not just the content of or parties to a > particular instance of communication. > > Tor needs to evolve very rapidly and become impossible to detect,

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
s shouldn't be too hard to hack up with a well-documented controller library such as Stem: https://stem.torproject.org/ I would be happy to help mentor someone to do this for GSoC, etc. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [tor-talk] NSA supercomputer

2013-04-07 Thread Mike Perry
e long-lived by default. As far as I can tell, also having the onion key doesn't get you much beyond what the identity key enables, especially if you're an "external" adversary (such as we would presume the NSA and other intelligence agencies to be). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla Persona and Tor

2013-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
like we can certainly hammer it in there if we have to ;). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Mozilla Persona and Tor

2013-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
of their users is visiting, especially over a number of days of repeated activity, and especially for smaller identity providers (or malicious providers that set very low cert expiration times for both user certs and their own IdP certs). I guess I probably should bring these issues up

Re: [tor-talk] What would Tor v1.0 look like?

2013-03-15 Thread Mike Perry
sn't strike me as the right move. We do have quite a bit more work to do before this stuff is actually usable by most of the population, and I think that is what a 3.x version number represents to most people (or at least it used to). After all, we are attempting to do what is more or l

Re: [tor-talk] How to obfuscate the Tor Browser activity from the Time/Size correlation attack?

2013-03-14 Thread Mike Perry
ning the Entry Node or it is being hosted on Google, the > Google would still be able to correlate the Size and Time? > > ___ tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-t

Re: [tor-talk] Fwd: Starting out: Project Coordinator

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Perry
ase let me know. > > I am trying to get some patches merged into the Linux TBB bundle start > up script "start-tor-browser". I started with a trivial one: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7266 > > Already mailed Mike Perry, but no response. If you have

Re: [tor-talk] TorBrowser does not work with mediafire.com

2013-02-01 Thread Mike Perry
t.org/blog/new-firefox-17-and-tor-alpha-bundles Be aware that it is an alpha, and more auditing work needs to be done on Firefox 17 in general, though. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] tor crashing: [err] circuit_build_times_get_xm(): Bug: circuitbuild.c:803: circuit_build_times_get_xm: Assertion bin_counts > 0 failed; aborting

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Perry
the state file got truncated? If you can reproduce the issue reliably, can you perhaps send us the results of something like 'grep "Build" /var/lib/tor/state'? Private email is fine. Don't ever publish the entire state file though: it is dangerous to your hidden service

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-31 Thread Mike Perry
; care if those I know also left Tor, but if you guys do not take this > matter seriously, Tor will become irrelevant. Signed consensus documents that everyone can globally verify are the best way we know of to "take this matter seriously". -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digi

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake unknown (unkn...@pgpru.com): > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:49:54 -0400 > Mike Perry wrote: > > > Longer term, I'm interested in having some form (or better: many forms) > > of multipath consensus validation: > > May be that algo is relevant to inde

Re: [tor-talk] Directory Server Decentralization

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Perry
ol that automatically stores consensus history for later out-of-band comparison against the public git repo, or even for live multipath validation. Might be a fun intro project for someone interested in getting involved in Tor, actually, and it would potentially be a helpful validation tool for

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on small and cheap devices

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Perry
actually have these things see real use. [1]. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/pets08metrics.pdf, section 6. [2]. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Tor relay on small and cheap devices

2013-01-20 Thread Mike Perry
their assumption holds equally well for these CPUs, I would also guess that the interrupts even from passively scanning WiFi should provide enough entropy even without driver support, though. From the table in that that url, it looks like the least amo

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Bitcoin? [OT]

2013-01-13 Thread Mike Perry
Oct 2012 > From: Mike Hearn > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - > fake voicemail / sms anyone? Thanks for clarifying this for me. Sorry for the misunderstanding. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Gmail and Bitcoin? [OT]

2013-01-13 Thread Mike Perry
nto an "Identity provider" for the Internet. Good luck with that, guys... I for one love a good lolocaust ;). -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Roger's status report, Nov 2012

2012-12-19 Thread Mike Perry
who framed our > exit relay funding debate as an "if you" vs "now that" game. When you > incentivize people with "if you X, I'll Y", they behave differently than > when it's "now that you've X, I'll Y". Does this theory hav

Re: [tor-talk] Botnets through Tor

2012-12-09 Thread Mike Perry
phisticated operations. This would also be consistent with it just being a one-man operation run by the IAmA poster on reddit. -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] upgrading procedure for TBB

2012-11-28 Thread Mike Perry
44. I find this annoying because I actually like having local TBB browsing history. On the plus side, any custom Firefox extensions you have in your TBB do stay active after updating this way (though the usual caveat about choosing your extensions carefully to avoid leaks and

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot blocks internet connection when off wifi (issues when on mobile data network only)

2012-11-09 Thread Mike Perry
EDGE? If it is significantly slower than your wifi (especially in terms of ping times/latency), this could be bug #3443: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3443 -- Mike Perry signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ tor-talk ma

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