Re: [tor-talk] how bridges work

2012-05-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Tim Wilde wrote: > > Thanks for the reassurance about the process. While I accept the > > free-speech basis of Tor (that "bad" as well as "good" guys can use > > it) and the assumption that the network is overall doing more good > > than bad, I've been con

Re: [tor-talk] orbot vs. tor

2012-05-08 Thread tor
On 08/05/12 03:24, Rhona Mahony wrote: > If Orbot can transparently proxy traffic from an Android phone--browser, > chat, email--why can't Tor do it for a laptop or desktop? Incorrect premise? On a "normal" Android device, you need to configure each app to use Orbot via the proxy settings. Howe

Re: [tor-talk] Towards a Torbutton for Thunderbird (torbutton-birdy)

2012-05-08 Thread Mix+TB Test
tagnaq wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi mix.tb, > > I'm curious whether you did write the following line - especially the > word 'wrote' yourself or not? > >> Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > The word 'wrote' shouldn't be there - at least not auto generated by > TB af

Re: [tor-talk] Towards a Torbutton for Thunderbird (torbutton-birdy)

2012-05-08 Thread anonym
05/07/2012 09:54 PM, tagnaq: >> [1] https://tails.boum.org/todo/Return_of_Icedove__63__/ > "Trying to hide we use Icedove seem unrealistic and/or impractical a > goal, at least to start with. Therefore, we'll ignore tagnaq's > suggestions whose single aim is that one." > > Why do you think that I a

Re: [tor-talk] how bridges work

2012-05-08 Thread Xinwen Fu
This paper may help http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/Bridge.pdf. Xinwen Fu On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:07 AM, eliaz wrote: > Of what use is a bridge working off an IP address of a provider located > in, say, the US, to a client in, say, Syria? Sorry for the elementary > question. - eli > -- >

Re: [tor-talk] Towards a Torbutton for Thunderbird (torbutton-birdy)

2012-05-08 Thread tagnaq
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > Nope, auto generated, just like in this one. I've checked > mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote and it's set to "%s". I imagine > that this is the way it should be, but it's not working as > expected. thanks to you we are aware of this issue now.