Re: [tor-talk] TOR tried to take a snapshot of my screen

2014-08-22 Thread Paolo Palmieri
MD5 is not collision resistant, and as such it shouldn't be used for verifying file integrity against tampering. A tampered file might be computed in order to have the same MD5 checksum of the original with a relatively small effort. See for instance http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/170.pdf Attacks

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Paolo Palmieri
> The cops don't have to present evidence until there is a court case. > Since this guy was not arrested, they have apparently not decided to > charge him yet. You clearly do not understand the general procedure stated in European crime laws. In most EU countries, the police cannot arrest you, aft

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-24 Thread Paolo Palmieri
Il 21/09/2012 05:55, miniBill ha scritto: > Unfortunately some ISPs intercept everything that passes through port 53 > udp... By intercept you mean tamper? Do they actually go and modify the replies you get when querying external DNS servers? If it's true it would seem pretty serious to me. Can y

Re: [tor-talk] Italy - third highest number users

2012-09-19 Thread Paolo Palmieri
> Somehow in August, Italy got a few thousand additional Tor users and > became third as far as usage of Tor: > [...] > Any insight? A major local filesharing website (hundreds of thousands active users) was blocked at the DNS level in the country around that time. Among the solutions to circumven

Re: [tor-talk] massive automated bridge requests: why?

2011-09-03 Thread Paolo Palmieri
> Over the past few months the number of bridge users has spiked, most > prominently in Italy, but also plenty in Spain, Brazil, Israel, and > others. > > It seems clear that somebody's unofficial Tor bundle automatically grabs > some bridges for its users, and that this somebody didn't understand