Re: [tor-talk] A security concern about Tor.

2019-12-22 Thread grarpamp
On 12/16/19, Jason Long wrote: > Hello Tor Team, > I read some articles about Tor security and some of them said that if the > governments see your real IP address then they can't see > the Tor traffic or websites that visited by Tor and if they can sniff Tor > traffic then they can't see your rea

Re: [tor-talk] A security concern about Tor.

2019-12-22 Thread hack3rcon
Thank you for your useful info. How can I use and configure Tor correctly? I'm using some IMs like telegram and I don't like my messages monitored by the governments. I also like to hide my real identity. On Saturday, December 21, 2019, 10:14:39 AM UTC, Jan wrote: Hei, Am 16/12/2

Re: [tor-talk] A security concern about Tor.

2019-12-22 Thread Jan
Hei, Am 16/12/2019 um 20.28 schrieb Jason Long: > Hello Tor Team, > I read some articles about Tor security Personally, I consider tor being a privacy tool and not a security tool: To some extent, you can control to what extent personal information (e.g. ip-address, browser) is known to the comm

[tor-talk] Strange Vanguards behavior? And some related questions!

2019-12-22 Thread hikki
I tried the Vanguards add-on, with all settings set to default. Question 1: But the first time I started tor with this add-on enabled, it connected to no less than 21 entry nodes! Most of these connections died out after a certain amount of time. But still, is this normal behavior? Question 2:

[tor-talk] Help setting up tor dos defense

2019-12-22 Thread brokenback
Hello I run a forum hidden service and a former user is constantly attacking it. I now have 0.4.2.5 installed and this is my torrc file the attacks still persist do I need to add anything else or change these numbers I thought this version of tor fixed these attacks was I mistaken? HiddenServiceD

Re: [tor-talk] Enumerate currently used Guard

2019-12-22 Thread meejah
"proc...@riseup.net" writes: > Hi. How do I enumerate the currently used guard using a Tor controlport > query? If you like the command-land, you can try "carml". You'd want "carml monitor" or "carml circ --list", see: https://carml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command-circ.html You could also

Re: [tor-talk] A security concern about Tor.

2019-12-22 Thread Jan
Heiho, Am 21/12/2019 um 22.36 schrieb hack3r...@yahoo.com: > Thank you for your useful info. > How can I use and configure Tor correctly? > I'm using some IMs like telegram and I don't like my messages monitored by > the governments. I also like to hide my real identity. That's a tough question