Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-08-29 Thread Al Billings
This conversation is a little tired. The tinfoil hats are going to see any funding of Tor by the US government as evidence that Tor is really a front for it and/or pwned by it. Others are going to disagree, pointing out that money is spent in public on items on a roadmap. Is there likely to b

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-09-17 Thread Al Billings
Do you think the NSA and the Navy are the same organization? -- Al Billings http://www.openbuddha.com http://makehacklearn.org On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Juan Garofalo wrote: > Even if I drop the composition, the picture is still odd. Organization M has > the goal of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Financial Transparency

2013-09-17 Thread Al Billings
You are turning organizations composed of many disparate organization, with their own people, directives, motives, etc. into monolithic entities. That does your argument (such as it is) a disservice and people can see through it pretty easily. -- Al Billings http://www.openbuddha.com http

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-24 Thread Al Billings
le in your case), you don't get the fix. -- Al Billings http://www.openbuddha.com http://makehacklearn.org On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, David Green wrote: > As an aside, besides some unknown specifics re. security, what could > possibly be in a new version of O

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread Al Billings
't getting regular security updates, you're insecure. The longer it goes on, the more insecure you are. You'd be much better off running something like Linux if you're concerned about vendor control but want to be secure. -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Wedn

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-25 Thread Al Billings
27;t do much to stop this. Al -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 10:05 AM, David Green wrote: > You're insecure if you drive without a seat-belt, or cross the road, or > fly, etc, but the vast majority of people who do not, are safe and f

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. — http://makehacklearn.org On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ahmed wrote: > http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html > -- > tor-talk mailin

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
s when his fake IDs were >> intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. > Where did you read this? > On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:29, "Al Billings" wrote: >> Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were >> intercepted b

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
gt;> intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. >> >> Where did you read this? >> >> On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:29, "Al Billings" wrote: >> >> > Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were >> inter

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
that could easily be misinformation and they had his name on a list or somesuch. -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > Page 26 paragraph 38 (I think) is where it has the first indication of > how they caught him. &

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-03 Thread Al Billings
Excuse me, I meant the server host, not VPN, in my reply. -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Al Billings wrote: > Sure they do. The VPN was clearly not in the US and they used agreements to > access it (it is mentioned in the aff

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-03 Thread Al Billings
Sure they do. The VPN was clearly not in the US and they used agreements to access it (it is mentioned in the affidavit). -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 4:33 PM, shadowOps07 wrote: > Was the VPN located in the US? If not, then FBI doesn't

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-04 Thread Al Billings
Talk to the people who write mobile email clients. — http://makehacklearn.org On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Enrique Fynn wrote: > could you not use top posting? Makes things difficult to read.[1] > [1] http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html > Peace; > Fynn. > -- > "Even a stopped clock is ri

Re: [tor-talk] Guardian Tor article

2013-10-04 Thread Al Billings
What makes you think that Chromium would be more secure? — http://makehacklearn.org On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Moses mailto:moses.ma...@gmail.com";>> wrote: NSA mainly attack TOR user (not TOR itself) by exploiting vulnerabilities in Firefox. Should devs consider to replace the bro

Re: [tor-talk] The NSA's problem? Too much data?

2013-10-16 Thread Al Billings
x27;ll find out through other means.  "These people?" Do tell. Who are "these people?" --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] tor mention in newle released snowden documents

2013-11-30 Thread Al Billings
everywhere and not in one  place.  --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
codebase, either due to lack of defect but also sometimes due to overall code changes that make it difficult or dangerous to apply the patches. --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
through current Firefox release code,  diff it against relevant portions of the code base used to build the Tor  Browser Bundle, and then infer potentially exploitable vulnerabilities  that TBB users might also be vulnerable to.  --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
Again, I wonder what you’re doing to fix this issue or is this really just an informational awareness campaign? Anyone paying attention knows there is a delta between TBB and Mozilla releases. I can’t comment on why that’s the case as I don’t know the TBB build, QA, or releases processes. The

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
I’ll also add that a two or three day delta on releases (which is most of those listed) is pretty damned good. The bugs in those releases aren’t public. Diffing changes and trying to contract zero days is actually quite hard as well. If you were talking about a month long difference in dates, I

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
cycles We still don't  get access to the releases any earlier, though, so there will continue to be  some lag between the two for the foreseeable future.  --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings

Re: [tor-talk] Firefox vs. Tor Browser Bundle release cycles

2013-12-11 Thread Al Billings
specific date and did  not have access to releases any earlier than everyone else. --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-26 Thread Al Billings
Assuming we’re talking about people opening web pages in TB tabs, that normally can only happen if someone installs Thunderbrowse or a similar extension. By default, TB doesn’t render web pages. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go t

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-26 Thread Al Billings
What is the bug number? -- Al Billings http://www.openbuddha.com http://makehacklearn.org On Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Mike Cardwell wrote: > You're definitely not supposed to be able to do this. Mozilla > acknowledged that it was a security issue and classified it

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-26 Thread Al Billings
/26/2014 08:42 PM, Al Billings wrote: > What is the bug number? https://grepular.com/Security_Bug_Thunderbird_Websites_Tabs "The bugzilla report is currently locked from being viewed, but for when it becomes unlocked, here it is: bug 700979" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-27 Thread Al Billings
prevent the tab to load nor refuse to display the HTML.  (Maybe this is intended, because Torbirdy only focuses on normal email  accounts(?))  --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird leak

2014-01-28 Thread Al Billings
Yes, I’m on the bug where you refer to me as “Al Billings” (with quotes) as if that isn’t my name…  From: Mike Cardwell Mike Cardwell Reply: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Date: January 28, 2014 at 12:41:12 AM To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Hulu now blocks Tor

2014-02-07 Thread Al Billings
-talk] Hulu now blocks Tor Hulu requires JavaScript to work properly.  If you enable JavaScript when visiting the site  does that not defeat the purpose of using TOR?  --  Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other