Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-04 Thread Sebastian Lechte
> tl;dr Did you by any chance compile tor with bufferevents enabled > (--enable-bufferevents)? Yes, I did. > Let's see the path of the sent bytes string: Thanks for that explanation! Sebastian ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.o

[tor-talk] What's this error message and should a Tor user be concerned?

2011-11-04 Thread Andre Risling
The following error message appeared in the Message Log; Oct 01 10:09:01.783 [Warning] Requested exit point '$SOME REALLY HUGE NUMBER' is excluded or would refuse request. Closing. Oct 01 10:09:02.356 [Warning] Making tunnel to dirserver failed. Should I be concerned about it? What does it mea

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use Google as default search in Tor Browser?

2011-11-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/3/2011 3:53 AM, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote: On 2 November 2011 20:17, Julian Yon wrote: As the GPL is one of the license options, there is no way that any contract or agreement between Google and Mozilla could possibly be binding on a third party. Mozilla do impose restrictions on use of their

Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-04 Thread George Kadianakis
Sebastian Lechte wrote: > > tl;dr Did you by any chance compile tor with bufferevents enabled > > (--enable-bufferevents)? > > Yes, I did. > I see. We've noticed this issue some months ago with bufferevents enabled, but it's not easy to reproduce or track down [0]. I left a note on the bug r

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use Google as default search in Tor Browser?

2011-11-04 Thread Christian Siefkes
On 11/04/2011 03:43 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > A lot of effort is put into helping Tor / TBB users avoid compromising > anonymity by using Google searches. Yet, the Google search engine is left > in Aurora. It's a pretty simple question - why? How should using Google as search engine comprise your

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use Google as default search in Tor Browser?

2011-11-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 11/4/2011 9:54 AM, Christian Siefkes wrote: On 11/04/2011 03:43 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: A lot of effort is put into helping Tor / TBB users avoid compromising anonymity by using Google searches. Yet, the Google search engine is left in Aurora. It's a pretty simple question - why? How should

Re: [tor-talk] Don't use Google as default search in Tor Browser?

2011-11-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Christian Siefkes wrote: > How should using Google as search engine comprise your anonymity? Either > you're anonymous, then you're anonymous on Google too. Or you aren't > anonymous, then avoiding Google won't help you. Anonymity is not an either or thing. If it

Re: [tor-talk] Tor client pushing large amounts of data?

2011-11-04 Thread Sebastian Lechte
> We've noticed this issue some months ago with bufferevents enabled, > but it's not easy to reproduce or track down [0]. Thanks for pointing me to the ticket, I'll try to keep track of it and help debugging. Sebastian ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-t