[tor-talk] Belarus just banned Tor and other censorship circumvention tools

2015-02-25 Thread Anton Nesterov
"11. If government inspection find Internet resources or anonymity tools (proxy servers, anonymous networks like Tor, and so on), which can be used to get access for Internet resources with limited access, they should add identifier of that Internet resources or anonymity tools to the list of limit

Re: [tor-talk] Belarus just banned Tor and other censorship circumvention tools

2015-02-25 Thread Anton Nesterov
Aaron Gibson: > On 2015-02-25 14:22, Anton Nesterov wrote: >> "11. If government inspection find Internet resources or anonymity tools >> (proxy servers, anonymous networks like Tor, and so on), which can be >> used to get access for Internet resources with limited

Re: [tor-talk] Belarus just banned Tor and other censorship circumvention tools

2015-02-25 Thread Anton Nesterov
Soul Plane: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Anton Nesterov > wrote: > >> Aaron Gibson: >>> On 2015-02-25 14:22, Anton Nesterov wrote: >>>> "11. If government inspection find Internet resources or anonymity tools >>>> (proxy servers,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser is already running

2015-06-15 Thread Anton Nesterov
Remote is disabled by default, but there is --allow-remote to enable it. Also check out https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14977 because you can have some problems with it. Colin Arnott: > As a user of firefox, I am aware that when firefox is running, you can call > [$ firefox ] or [

[tor-talk] Russia failed to break Tor

2015-09-09 Thread Anton Nesterov
A company hired by the Russian Interior Ministry to identify users of the Tor network, an anonymous Internet browser, has announced its plans to terminate its state contract without finishing the task. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Russian Interior Ministry signed a series of

[tor-talk] Russia actually kind of cracked (?) Tor

2015-11-24 Thread Anton Nesterov
On 11 July 2014 Russia's Interior Ministry posted a contract seeking a group "to study the possibility of obtaining technical information on users and users' equipment of Tor anonymous network" for $59,000. When media reports appeared, mentioning of Tor was deleted. Then company who won this contr

Re: [tor-talk] Russia actually kind of cracked (?) Tor

2015-11-24 Thread Anton Nesterov
System of technical facilities aimed to providing functions of Operative Investigative Operations, it's a Russian mass surveliance system simuliar to NarusInsight, but with all-country coverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM I: > What does SORM stand for? > > Robert > > -- https://nes

Re: [tor-talk] ru news

2015-11-24 Thread Anton Nesterov
Compete against each other in mass surveillance? Well, no, I don't see any overall outcome in this. Zenaan Harkness: > Well if nation-states can compete against each other in this way, > perhaps this is the best overall outcome we can hope for? > > > On 11/25/15, Vladimir Teplouhov wrote: >> ht

Re: [tor-talk] Russia actually kind of cracked (?) Tor

2015-11-25 Thread Anton Nesterov
verage lawful interception seen in the west, except > crypto is excluded. In no way this can count as mass surveliance. > > Anton Nesterov wrote: >> System of technical facilities aimed to providing functions of Operative >> Investigative Operations, it's a Russian mass surveli

Re: [tor-talk] Russia actually kind of cracked (?) Tor

2015-11-27 Thread Anton Nesterov
Артур Истомин: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 02:46:50AM +0000, Anton Nesterov wrote: >> It's not like western LI. LI means there is order which ISP execute. In >> SORM there is no such thing, just some black box with full traffic >> mirrored on it installed at every ISPs with

Re: [tor-talk] Why most democratic contries are most active users of TOR... except Russia of course

2016-01-01 Thread Anton Nesterov
Well Russia now has Internet censorship which heavy increased number on Tor users https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2012-01-01&end=2016-01-01&country=ru&events=off Also number of Tor users in US increased after Snowden's leaks, because

[tor-talk] Guide on how to unblock Tor users on Cloudflare website

2017-02-04 Thread Anton Nesterov
I wrote a guide on topic https://on1on.cf So it should be easier to link this guide to website administrators if you are experiencing troubles with accessing their Cloudflare-protected website via Tor (and if you have a Cloudflare-protected website, please follow this guide, you'll make Tor users

[tor-talk] Russian free software activist arrested for extremist materials posted from his Tor exit node

2017-04-10 Thread Anton Nesterov
Dmitry Bogatov aka KAction, Russian free software activist and mathematics teacher at Moscow’s Finance and Law University, arrested in Russia and charged with extremism. Here is news report about his arrest https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/04/10/mathematics-teacher-accused-of-inciting-mass-riots-