Re: [tor-talk] Basic questions from new user but...

2012-05-11 Thread Philipp Winter
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 03:08:31PM -0400, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Why can't there be some manner of anonymity such as remote VNCing to a > remote computer (say a web server desktop on Gnome running on an Amazon AWS > cloud)... > > This way your true identity is an Amazon AWS cloud IP and say you

Re: [tor-talk] Basic questions from new user but...

2012-05-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Isn't this approach very much a double edged sword?  From the link: >> >> However, we recommend that even users who know how to use NoScript leave >> JavaScript enabled if possible, because a website or exit node can easily >> distinguish users

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread johnmurphy323
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:11:06PM -0400, johnmurphy...@safe-mail.net wrote: > > IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.178.50 DST=some-target LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > > TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=50447 DPT=443 WINDOW=1002 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 > > > > This packet is https, most likely generated by my fir

Re: [tor-talk] Basic questions from new user but...

2012-05-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 5/11/2012 7:21 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Isn't this approach very much a double edged sword? From the link: However, we recommend that even users who know how to use NoScript leave JavaScript enabled if possible, because a website or ex

[tor-talk] Setting up redirection to TORs transparent proxy

2012-05-11 Thread John Donoe
Hey guys, I used an iptables ruleset (Ubuntu) based on the sample ruleset from https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy, Section Linux, Local Redirection Through Tor, to set up Tor as a transparent Proxy. I thought I had understood that ruleset, but theres one point I

Re: [tor-talk] Webserver on 127.0.0.1 only?

2012-05-11 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
thanks jacob do you know a good way to do this? -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On May 9, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Don't forget to ensure that Apache doesn't do DNS lookups for visiting > hosts. Also, I'd probably just jail the apache or whatever user to > ensure it drop

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread coderman
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: > ... >> How is it possible for a packet not to have an associated uid? >... > I'm not a netfilter expert, but it looks this is a pure TCP ACK packet. With > LEN=40 there's no application data in it. It may have been auto-generated by > the kernel

Re: [tor-talk] Setting up redirection to TORs transparent proxy

2012-05-11 Thread coderman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, John Donoe wrote: > ... > I thought I had understood that ruleset, but theres one point I simply dont > get: That TCP segments are only redirected to the port Tor listens on when > the SYN flag is set. connection tracking (conntrack) works on new streams; when

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 05/11/2012 07:43 PM, coderman wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: >> ... >>> How is it possible for a packet not to have an associated uid? >> ... >> I'm not a netfilter expert, but it looks this is a pure TCP ACK packet. With >> LEN=40 there's no application data in it.

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread johnmurphy323
> On 05/11/2012 07:43 PM, coderman wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: > >> ... > >>> How is it possible for a packet not to have an associated uid? > >> ... > >> I'm not a netfilter expert, but it looks this is a pure TCP ACK packet. > >> With > >> LEN=40 there's no appl

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread coderman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >... > If this is actually the case, I'd say that this is a kernel bug. :( some would call it a kernel "feature" to conserve memory space already wasted on TIME_WAIT. not everything is designed around your particular use case. (it is not un

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 05/11/2012 11:09 PM, coderman wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> ... >> If this is actually the case, I'd say that this is a kernel bug. :( > > some would call it a kernel "feature" to conserve memory space already > wasted on TIME_WAIT. not everything is desi

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 05/11/2012 11:01 PM, johnmurphy...@safe-mail.net wrote: >> On 05/11/2012 07:43 PM, coderman wrote: >>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: ... > How is it possible for a packet not to have an associated uid? ... I'm not a netfilter expert, but it looks this is a

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread coderman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:01 PM, wrote: > How do I disable time wait? actually not straight forward. depending on kernel, first try: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rfc1337 some other settings to aggressively prune lingering kernel states: echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout (or 1)

Re: [tor-talk] tor/netfilter: packets without uid

2012-05-11 Thread coderman
>  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rfc1337 not the right option; this is different, and to avoid an issue with time wait. the feature i'm thinking of is time-wait negotiation, which can be tweaked to always put this state on the peer (or fail if not available). last time i messed with this is wa