Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2012-03-17 Thread Jude Young
On 03/17/2012 03:35 AM, Achter Lieber wrote: Hello. Can or will anyone address this new pop-up when using the latest version of the Tor Browser Bundle for Windows, as to the safety of choosing any of the choices presented? This is it: The new window says the following: SSL Observatory

[tor-talk] (no subject)

2012-03-17 Thread Achter Lieber
Hello. Can or will anyone address this new pop-up when using the latest version of the Tor Browser Bundle for Windows, as to the safety of choosing any of the choices presented? This is it: The new window says the following: SSL Observatory HTTPS Everywhere can detect attacks against your

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2012-03-17 Thread Jude Young
On 03/17/2012 03:35 AM, Achter Lieber wrote: Hello. Can or will anyone address this new pop-up when using the latest version of the Tor Browser Bundle for Windows, as to the safety of choosing any of the choices presented? This is it: The new window says the following: SSL Observatory

Re: [tor-talk] A "paranoid" question

2012-03-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Raynald wrote: > Hi. > > How can I trust that the intermediate TOR computers are not really a > central network for tracking and processing the communications? > > I see that the main sponsor is "An anonymous North American NGO" - New > Global Order? :D - and, I d

Re: [tor-talk] A "paranoid" question

2012-03-17 Thread John Thompson
On 2012-03-16, Raynald wrote: > How can I trust that the intermediate TOR computers are not really a > central network for tracking and processing the communications? You can't. But the only thing the intermediaries only know is the previous hop and the next hop. The traffic itself is encrypted

Re: [tor-talk] A "paranoid" question

2012-03-17 Thread eliaz
On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Raynald wrote: [snip] > Well, one good way would be to run a fast relay yourself, have it join > the network, and see if it gets advertised as a fast relay. What's a"fast" relay? Does "fast" have anything to do with bridges? - eliaz -- gpg ID: C3E1E38D __

Re: [tor-talk] A "paranoid" question

2012-03-17 Thread Phillip
It wouldn't really matter even if they are, would it? I mean, the whole idea of Tor is that the communication gets encrypted at every hop, so even if an intermediate computer is CIA, it would (theoretically) not be able to crack the encryption from the previous hops, as well as not knowing who is r

Re: [tor-talk] Can't access Tor network: Question about Find Bridges Now

2012-03-17 Thread Jim
Andrew Lewman wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:21:56 -0700 (PDT) bao song wrote: More recently, I downloaded a newer TBB for Windows, again, it could not establish a circuit, so I clicked Settings-->Network-->Find Bridges Now and nothing happened. The 'find bridges now' button just hits https://

[tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-17 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Hi all! I am thinking about buying Android phone. Now I use iPhone with Firewall IP. Question: If I switch to Android with Orbot features, is there some good GUI Firewall like Firewall IP that is compatible with it? -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu ___

Re: [tor-talk] Trusted source?

2012-03-17 Thread Jim
Geoff Down wrote: http://anonymous-os.tumblr.com/about Would you use Tor supplied by these people? GD People claiming to speak for Anonymous say Anonymous-OS is "wrapped in trogans". The creators of Anonymous-OS deny it. http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/15/anonymous-os-is-fake-and-packed-with-malw

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot and firewall?

2012-03-17 Thread Nathan Freitas
Droidwall is an open source firewall manager that requires root and can be used with Orbot as long as you do not use the transparent proxy feature of Orbot. "Jerzy Łogiewa" wrote: Hi all! I am thinking about buying Android phone. Now I use iPhone with Firewall IP. Question: If I switch to And

[tor-talk] high memory usage

2012-03-17 Thread eliaz
The only problem I have with the bridge I'm running is that for some reason the memory used keeps climbing up, so that after three or four days I have to reboot the machine. AFAICT rebooting doesn't affect the bridge's usefulness much, but I can't do much else when the mem use reaches 2.9 G. I reca