Re: [tor-talk] OFTC and Tor

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:51 AM Pickfire wrote: > > I hope that there is also a way to use tor with freenode other than > oftc. > > I wanted to use tor with freenode and oftc in pidgin. And it seems that > the method "really hope that the exit I have isn't blocked" have a very, > very low probabil

Re: [tor-talk] Orbot for Android

On Thu, Nov 21 2013, anonymous coward wrote: > Hello, > > I consider to use Orbot on my Android 4.x device. I have some questions > about Orbot. > > How mature is Orbot? Is it generally safe to use? > > How does it work technically, is it a kind of proxy app or does it work > like a VPN software?

Re: [tor-talk] (maybe OT:) Dispute between RMS and WK on License Change for the GPH

On Sat, Nov 23 2013, to_delete wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bit OT, but it might be of interest here, too. > > I don't know whether you follow the GnuPG mailing lists, but in case you > missed it: there has been a dispute between Richard Stallman and Werner > Koch on a license change for the GNU Pri

Re: [tor-talk] M.Hearn adds privacy depriority to Bitcoin XT, calls your Tor/Proxy/etc use "unimportant"

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:07 PM grarpamp wrote: > > http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010379.html > > https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt/commit/73c9efe74c5cc8faea9c2b2c785a2f5b68aa4c23 > > Bitcoin XT contains an unmentioned addition which periodically download

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:17 AM coderman wrote: > On 2/3/16, Jeremy Rennicks wrote: > > Would it be worthwhile or feasible to route Tor traffic through SDR.. For > > example if I were a node on Tor and data came to my system would routing > it > > through my SDR to another system then back over t

Re: [tor-talk] hierarchy anonymity

A naive, probably inefficient approach would be to have everyone tweet fixed-length encrypted messages encrypted with each of the others' private keys, including the teacher's, at the same time every day. Everyone would also download everyone else's tweets and attempt to decrypt all of them. All bu

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:23 PM coderman wrote: > On 2/5/16, Sean Lynch wrote: > > ... Radio is being used right now to provide anonymity, but it's being > used[1] > > to hide endpoints similar to the duct-taped payphone trick depicted in > > Hackers, in order to av

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:36 PM jim bell wrote: > > > *From:* coderman > *Sbject:* Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR > On 2/5/16, Sean Lynch wrote: > > The older, lower-tech version of this trick is to use a high-gain antenna > > like the Cantenna or a Yagi to use a pub

Re: [tor-talk] Why does Facebook claim my Russian exit node is in Colombia?

Geolocation data for IPs is of varying quality. Facebook's likely comes from a combination of commercial and open/free sources, along with some machine learning based on features of people coming from those IPs. For the most part, I doubt Facebook is trying to look at/parse the whois data directly,

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:51 AM wrote: > Original Message > From: Sean Lynch > Apparently from: cypherpunks-boun...@cpunks.org > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Cc: cypherpu...@cpunks.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR > Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20

Re: [tor-talk] Cicada 3301: 2016

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016, 20:29 grarpamp wrote: > https://twitter.com/1231507051321/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301 > http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/ I'm surprised anyone thinks this could possibly be anything besides a viral marketing campaign. AR games are all the rage these days.

Re: [tor-talk] Cicada 3301: 2016

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:04 PM grarpamp wrote: > On 2/11/16, Green Dream wrote: > >> I'm surprised anyone thinks this could possibly be anything besides a > > viral > >> marketing campaign. AR games are all the rage these days. > > > > > > That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Cicada_3301 is

Re: [tor-talk] so strange but interesting

This presumably phishing, malware, or spam. I'd advise against clicking. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:11 AM tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org < s...@pizzey.me> wrote: > Hi, > I know it might be something strange, but still so interesting, you have > to see it here

Re: [tor-talk] Bittorrent starting to move entirely within anonymous overlay nets

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:52 PM grarpamp wrote: [...] > # Putting the "Tor" back in Torrent > https://gist.github.com/obvio171/addb26214a8c159f84a8 > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022341 Code, or it didn't happen. We have ideas up the wazoo. What we lack are practical, usable implementat

Re: [tor-talk] These Maps Show What the Dark Web Looks Like

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:19 PM Yuri wrote: > On 07/06/2016 12:32, grarpamp wrote: > > > https://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-maps-show-what-the-dark-web-looks-like > > > > What does the dark web actually look like? Well, new research maps out > > the relationships between a load of Tor hidden

Re: [tor-talk] Cryptos Take Action Against US Senate Bill S.1241

Presumably those with lots of crypto will be donating to the campaigns of the opponents of those who support this bill. On 12/08/2017 10:15 AM, grarpamp wrote: US Senate Bill S.1241 to Criminalize Concealed Ownership of Bitcoin, P2P Trading of Personal Amounts, Etc https://www.reddit.com/searc