[tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-21 Thread Raffaele Angius
Hi, Faffa here. Trying so hard to understand the problem with those spikes. Since I have the impression that it's not a human activity, one option I was discussing with some friends is that it could be a strategy to force connections into a specific node, by saturating the others. Does it make any

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-21 Thread Kevin
I do believe it is some sort of attack.  Perhaps botnet activity? On 9/21/2017 7:54 AM, Raffaele Angius wrote: Hi, Faffa here. Trying so hard to understand the problem with those spikes. Since I have the impression that it's not a human activity, one option I was discussing with some friends

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-21 Thread Raffaele Angius
That's what I've been thinking 'till now, it took a while to reach you here. But if it is a botnet activity, who did this? It's in two different countries, so would sound like a third party Raffaele Angius Journalist and Media Innovation Advisor Twitter: @faffa42 Please note that unencrypted e

[tor-talk] German BND 2010: Tor Unsuitable

2017-09-21 Thread grarpamp
https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/ https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-das-anonymisierungs-netzwerk-tor-angegriffen-und-warnt-vor-dessen-nutzung/ https://www.reddit.co

Re: [tor-talk] German BND 2010: Tor Unsuitable

2017-09-21 Thread grarpamp
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1050_tor-development.pdf http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/18/CD12850/D_I_Stenografische_Protokolle/Protokoll%2041%20I.pdf https://www.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/Master-Meister-Zugangserschwerungsgesetz.pdf https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/

Re: [tor-talk] German BND 2010: Tor Unsuitable

2017-09-21 Thread krishna e bera
On 21/09/17 11:25 AM, grarpamp wrote: > https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/ > > https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-das-anonymisierungs-netzwerk-tor-angegriffen-und-wa

Re: [tor-talk] German BND 2010: Tor Unsuitable

2017-09-21 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:11 PM, krishna e bera wrote: > Tor is still one of the best tools available and forces TLAs to up their game. > What do they recommend for their own online communication in 2017? Don't know, ask the TLA's, or leak their secrets, or shut them down. We now know the threa

[tor-talk] Onions in the Wild: First V3 (Prop224) Onion Instances Now Online

2017-09-21 Thread grarpamp
A growing number of onion services using the new addressing protocol have been seen in the wild. Update your crawlers. This inbox still accepts dumplists of both v2 and v3 offlist... And whether by timing, social, or other suitable methods, be sure addresses used are from the services you expect.

Re: [tor-talk] Onions in the Wild: First V3 (Prop224) Onion Instances Now Online

2017-09-21 Thread Yuri
On 09/21/17 11:30, grarpamp wrote: A growing number of onion services using the new addressing protocol have been seen in the wild. Update your crawlers. This inbox still accepts dumplists of both v2 and v3 offlist... Is there a standalone utility that can generate V3 addresses? Can they be g