Re: [tor-talk] Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government

2014-07-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:43:50PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: :Tor Project had to refuse funding from a donor who was deemed some kind :of enemy of the US govt[1]. This should raise suspicions that the :project may not be developing in its most productive direction(s) for :the other parties tha

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

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:07:00PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: :On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:34:37AM +, mirimir wrote: :> Wow. I just read the complaint :8 :> :> He was unfathomably stupid. Words cannot express how stupid he was. :> :> This has absolutely no relevance to the Tor network. : :

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

2013-10-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:26:06PM -0400, shadowOps07 wrote: :No, it was a rookie fuck-up that enabled old-fashioned detective work. if :it wasn't a fookie fuck-up, then none of this would have happened. It was human error, which is what traditional police work relies on all the time. I chuckled

Re: [tor-talk] New Onions

2013-10-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:52:53AM +0200, intrigeri wrote: :grarpamp wrote (04 Oct 2013 08:25:51 GMT) : :> Lots of identical banners... Tails/Whonix are you shipping some defaults? : :Tails doesn't ship any web server by default. But that does sound like the default Apache banner, especially if th

Re: [tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor-based social networking?

2013-10-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:24:33AM -0400, Bill Cox wrote: :On 10/28/2013 12:58 AM, Michael Wolf wrote: :>While I can appreciate Bill's concerns (my web servers are regularly :>attacked by miscreants using Tor), I have a hard time imagining any case :>where an *effective* reputation-type system doe

Re: [tor-talk] First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email (propublica)

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi All, Anyone directly involved with this Library project let me know if there's anything I can do in support, attend public (or private) meeting with trustees or send a more personal email than some web click through. Contact me directly at the above address I don't speak for my employer, but I

Re: [tor-talk] Question for those who say "Tor is pwned"

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
So we learn: Well known limitation or TOR are well known. From this we can determine: There is more work to do either in improving TOR or devising another theoretical model that is but usefully performant and secure against a global passive adversary (there's probably a few more doctoral robes

Re: [tor-talk] How to find trust nodes?

2017-09-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:31:56AM +, Jason Long wrote: :Excuse me if I say it, but your answers make me confuse more!!! I guess there is no guarantee about Tor nodes. Governments and bad people can launch a Tor node and sniff Tor users traffic and... The design of Tor is that you don't ne