Re: [tor-talk] Mermaids

2013-02-11 Thread Alexandre Guillioud
OMG, thank's for the laugh ! And hi :) Le lundi 11 février 2013, Mysterious Flyer a écrit : > This is a shout-out to all mermaids using Tor. I am using Tails. I > just wanna be in with the in crowd. Sorry if my shout-out is just a > lot of bubbles. That's what happens when you're a mermaid (

Re: [tor-talk] Accessing hidden service from same instance

2013-02-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
Am Samstag, 9. Februar 2013 schrieb grarpamp : > > I'm planning to do > > the same thing for measuring hidden service performance in Torperf. > > > there's a quite high probability that > > you're using the same entry guard for the actual connection between > > client and service. > > For similar

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Hendrik Neumann
Small update: I've snail-mailed them a letter based on what Moritz had posted. They replied with a standardized letter without even commenting on my statements. It's basically saying "Last chance to pay or we'll go to court." So I'm a little unsure whether or not it's now time to actually consult

[tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
It's my understanding they are segregating Tor and other proxies under a non-ISO country, city, etc code. Besides not being technically what GeoIP is supposed to do for locating and breaking all of that context, it's showing arbitrary 'anti-spam/badness' mindset. Perhaps GeoIP/Maxmind/etc are folk

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
I've forgotten the specifics of your OP. Exactly how much are they demanding (Eu / $US)? Other BIG factor (others familiar w/ European / German laws can comment): Do they have any SUBSTANTIAL proof, that a judge / jury would accept as reasonable proof, that YOU did something under your count

Re: [tor-talk] Accessing hidden service from same instance

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
>> For similar HS tests I ran the HS's separately so that, other than the >> local ISP, it would best reflect the actual Tor network. >> >> In addition to the EG, I wonder as to possible reuse of the paths to the >> DB's, >> IP's, and RP? It wasn't something I looked at, but could also affect >> pe

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Hendrik Neumann
Hey Joe, thanks for sharing! They're demanding €450 compensation for the alleged sharing of the movie via BitTorrent. Plus €506 lawyer's fees. So in total we're talking about €956,- FOX is working with a German company, ipoque GmbH, that monitors filesharing platforms. So they've logged my IP (t

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Simon Brereton
If they are going to answer your mail with a proforma reply, just resend it. Recorded delivery is a good idea too. And contact your local Piratpartei. Simon On Monday, February 4, 2013, Hendrik Neumann wrote: > Hey guys, > > have been lurking here for a while, but now I need some advice on h

Re: [tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 2/11/13 7:33 PM, grarpamp wrote: > It's my understanding they are segregating Tor and other > proxies under a non-ISO country, city, etc code. Besides not > being technically what GeoIP is supposed to do for locating > and breaking all of that context, it's showing arbitrary > 'anti-spam/badness

Re: [tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
>> least cause them to distribute a version of their datasets >> that retain the original locations. > > I asked their (first-level) support a few months ago, and they said > they're considering providing data sets without A1 codes some time this > year. Any wiki'ers on the list want to wiki thing

Re: [tor-talk] GeoIP A1 classification

2013-02-11 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11.02.2013 23:28, grarpamp wrote: > Years ago I thought there were some crowdsourced IP location > projects. While not being commercial where ISP's would > perhaps be more inclined to input their provisioning tables, they > covered userland's knowledge and self-submittals pretty good. > These pr

[tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi! TorBirdy 0.1.0 is now out; we think it is the the best release so far and we encourage you to upgrade. We welcome you to read more about this release and to comment on the release on the Tor blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torbirdy-our-first-beta-release This release is the first i

[tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread bvvq
Hi tor-talk, I'm not sure where else to ask this question so I give my apologies if this is off-topic. Please feel free to suggest a better list/forum/website. I've had a personal email account with GMail since it was invite-only, but lately I've read a few stories about Google's use of our e

[tor-talk] torsocks 1.3 is tagged and released

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi, After quite a long development cycle, we've tagged torsocks 1.3 today: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git/shortlog/refs/tags/1.3 We believe that this release fixes most of the outstanding torsocks issues. We also also hope that it merges all of the various patches that were being s

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Nathan Freitas
Thanks for the update from a happy birdy user! It has been very useful on my recent global travels, since many of the "free" networks I come across actually block non-web ports. Also as the person who does all of the GP email support, I am happy to not broadcast my actual IP in mail headers. At

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Nathan Freitas: > Thanks for the update from a happy birdy user! It has been very > useful on my recent global travels, since many of the "free" networks > I come across actually block non-web ports. Also as the person who > does all of the GP email support, I am happy to not broadcast my > actual

Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy 0.1.0 released - Our first beta release!

2013-02-11 Thread Nathan Freitas
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >I've experienced networks that were this terrible and perhaps worse; >what I've found is that I'd rather have Thunderbird fail closed and >safely so. Were you using IMAP? Yes. The issue I have with POP3 is that I want to also access the mail from my phone. I suppose I

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Mysterious Flyer
Hello bvvq: Gmail is horrid. The only way I can think of to get Google of my path is to encrypt all the e-mails I send through them. The only problem is that I can't get anyone I know to download the software they would need to decrypt. I'm pretty sure the only way around all that is to get a p

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Griffin Boyce
There are some good ones out there, but if you're using Tor to create the account and login, you should know that many have started blocking Tor users (or deactivating their accounts in the case of Yahoo). Size could also be an issue, but if you're deleting them off the server on download, then tha

Re: [tor-talk] Legal problems: TOR relay & Torrents in .de

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 1:31 PM, Hendrik Neumann wrote: Hey Joe, thanks for sharing! They're demanding €450 compensation for the alleged sharing of the movie via BitTorrent. Plus €506 lawyer's fees. So in total we're talking about €956,- FOX is working with a German company, ipoque GmbH, that monitors fi

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread grarpamp
> * Privacy-conscious (don't parse my emails to target advertisements to > Anonymous-/encryption-type services offered by HushMail or Safe-Mail That rules out gmail, yahoo, hotmail/live. Few services will state they don't, and statements are no guarantee. Privacy (OpenPGP, etc) is your responsibi

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 6:47 PM, bvvq wrote: Hi tor-talk, I'm not sure where else to ask this question so I give my apologies if this is off-topic. Please feel free to suggest a better list/forum/website. I've had a personal email account with GMail since it was invite-only, but lately I've read a fe

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 9:51 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: There are some good ones out there, but if you're using Tor to create the account and login, you should know that many have started blocking Tor users (or deactivating their accounts in the case of Yahoo). Size could also be an issue, but if you're delet

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-11 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/11/2013 10:04 PM, grarpamp wrote: * Privacy-conscious (don't parse my emails to target advertisements to Anonymous-/encryption-type services offered by HushMail or Safe-Mail That rules out gmail, yahoo, hotmail/live. Few services will state they don't, and statements are no guarantee. Pri