[tor-talk] Twitter account lockouts for Tor users

2014-11-05 Thread lee colleton
I've noticed that Twitter accounts accessed via Tor have a tendency to lock due to suspicious activity. This requires a password reset via email or SMS and may sometimes entail an hour-long delay before Twitter restores access. I use an alpha[1] Twitter client along with Orbot, both as provided by

[tor-talk] Orbot relays not grouped by family

2013-08-01 Thread lee colleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If I run multiple relays, shouldn't they be grouped into a node family? I see no way of doing this with Orbot on Android, which lists only an option for setting the node nickname. - --lee -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: APG v1.0.8 iQI9BAEBCA

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Tor Drone

2013-08-09 Thread lee colleton
A drone that is controlled via hidden services contacted through cellular data seems like a good means of maintaining anonymity for drone operators. There was a WiFi scanning mod of the ParrotAR that did something like this. --lee On Aug 9, 2013 2:26 PM, wrote: > > Hey, > > now we have our own n

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Tor Drone

2013-08-09 Thread lee colleton
Yes, I meant that the drone would receive commands like altitude changes and coordinates. Real time control would probably not work On Aug 9, 2013 5:41 PM, "mirimir" wrote: > On 08/09/2013 10:10 PM, lee colleton wrote: > > > A drone that is controlled via hidden serv

[tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-13 Thread lee colleton
p protocol) Aug 13 06:49:18.000 [warn] Managed proxy at '/usr/bin/obfsproxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be destroyed. ... Here's the config: # A unique handle for your server. #Nickname ec2$CONFIG$RESERVATION Nickname gcedemo ContactInfo Lee Colleton # Set &qu

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-14 Thread lee colleton
proxy 0.1.4-2 amd64 pluggable transport proxy for Tor ii tor 0.2.4.15-rc-1~d70.wh amd64 anonymizing overlay network for TCP On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0700, lee collet

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-14 Thread lee colleton
My intent is to set up an obfsproxy bridge in the manner of the EC2 images available from cloud.torproject.org which will stay up to date thanks to unattended upgrades. I've enabled wheezy-backports and upgraded thus: lee@tor-bootstrap:~$ dpkg -l tor obfsproxy Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-14 Thread lee colleton
apparently lacks accelerated support for the NIST P-224 and P-256 groups. Building openssl with such support (using the enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 option when configuring it) would make ECDH much faster. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:41 AM, lee colleton wrote: > My intent is to set up an obfsproxy bri

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-14 Thread lee colleton
ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:46 AM, lee colleton wrote: > The packaged version of tor complains about support for faster OpenSSL: > > Aug 14 15:26:52.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.4.16-rc (git-dcf6b6d7dda9ffbd) opening > log file. > Aug 14 15:26:52.000 [n

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-14 Thread lee colleton
| | allowed | tcp: 443, 9001, 40872, 52176 | +---+---+ lee@li388-156:~$ On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:08:03AM -0700, lee colleton wrote: > > There's a more serious issue in that my server doesn't appear to be >

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-15 Thread lee colleton
0:11.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:53 PM, lee colleton wrote: > Yes, I've opened the ports in the Google Compute Engine (see below). I'll > follow up on their f

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-15 Thread lee colleton
ocks4a to port 443) instructed Tor to take care of the DNS resolution itself if necessary. This is good. NOTICE: Your application (using socks4a to port 80) instructed Tor to take care of the DNS resolution itself if necessary. This is good. On Aug 15, 2013 12:31 AM, "lee colleton

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-15 Thread lee colleton
socks4a to port 443) instructed Tor to take care of the DNS resolution itself if necessary. This is good. On Aug 15, 2013 1:41 AM, "lee colleton" wrote: > When I attempt to connect to this bridge, I see a failure in handshaking: > > Orbot is starting… > Orbot is starting… >

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-15 Thread lee colleton
. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:47 AM, lee colleton wrote: > With the ORListenAddress line uncommented, a slightly different failure > results: > > Orbot is starting… > Orbot is starting… > got tor proc id: 28490 > Tor process id=28490 > > Connecting to control port: 905

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-15 Thread lee colleton
-tor-relay +tor-relays On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, lee colleton wrote: > All of the ports respond on the external IP except for 443 but I can > connect via SSL on 9001. I don't understand how ORListenAddress is > supposed to work: my bridge times out on 443 but when I c

Re: [tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

2013-08-21 Thread lee colleton
ficate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 225 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE --- On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:14 AM, lee colleton wrote: > -tor-relay > +tor-

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-27 Thread lee colleton
There has not been a sustained increase in search traffic for the Pirate Browser on Google. Tor and "Tor browser" haven't shown a spike in search, either. Could it be from users in Syria? Also note that the Google Play Store has been unblocked in Iran, allowing distribution of Orbot/Orweb in that c

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-27 Thread lee colleton
, Jon wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Lars Noodén > wrote: > > > On 27.08.2013 17:13, lee colleton wrote: > > > > > > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Tor%2C%20TOR%20browser%2C%20piratebrowser%2C%20&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q > > > >

Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

2013-08-27 Thread lee colleton
I've started the Pirate Browser and it does start Tor through Vidalia. The browser component doesn't make an effort to anonymize the user, as I understand it. On Aug 27, 2013 6:56 PM, "mirimir" wrote: > On 08/28/2013 12:35 AM, Nathan Suchy wrote: > > > The Pirate Browser does not use Tor. Anyone

[tor-talk] Tor relay activity from Antarctica

2013-08-28 Thread lee colleton
you wish to follow up, there. Kind regards, Lee Colleton [image: Inline image 1]<https://metrics.torproject.org/direct-users.png?start=2013-05-29&events=off&end=2013-08-27&country=aq> -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other setti

[tor-talk] Fwd: SSH on Safeplug

2014-01-02 Thread lee colleton
Of interest to anyone with a Safeplug transparent Tor proxy device from Pogoplug or concerned about their security. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Gali Birenbaum" Date: Jan 2, 2014 12:16 AM Subject: SSH on Safeplug To: Cc: Hello Lee, I would like to start by stressing the fact t

[tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-03-30 Thread lee colleton
Trying to open TorBrowserBundle_en-US from TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3-osx32_en-US.zip produces an error: "TorBrowserBundle_en-US" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it > to the Trash. What to do? --lee -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change o

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-03-30 Thread lee colleton
I've checked the signature on TBB and it's good. The security setting allows all binaries to be run but it's still a no-go. Any other ideas? --lee On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Matt Pagan wrote: > Roger Dingledine: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:50:49PM -

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-03-31 Thread lee colleton
ations on the system. --lee On Mar 30, 2014 7:11 PM, "Matt Pagan" wrote: > lee colleton: > > I've checked the signature on TBB and it's good. > > > > The security setting allows all binaries to be run but it's still a > no-go. > > > > Any othe

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-03-31 Thread lee colleton
the --debug flag set. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:07 AM, lee colleton wrote: > It's 10.9.2 and I've tried both the GUI and the Terminal app. I can get > the tor binary to run and it completes the bootstrapping process by opening > a circuit. However, running the launcher script gi

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-03-31 Thread lee colleton
AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:28 PM, lee colleton wrote: > > When I found that it didn't run I deleted it (move to trash, empty trash) > > then downloaded new version and observed same results. Re-downloaded and > > checked signature to be sure. It&

Re: [tor-talk] fresh TBB is damaged and can't be opened on Mac OS X

2014-04-03 Thread lee colleton
dvik wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:09 PM, lee colleton wrote: > > Additionally, a popup appears during the debug launch which says "Profile > > Missing: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or > > inaccessible." That message doesn't app

Re: [tor-talk] Pogoplug: is safe enough against NSA?

2014-04-10 Thread lee colleton
If you want to run Tor on something from PogoPlug I'd recommend installing Linux on one of their NAS devices instead of using the SafePlug. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pogoplug+debian --lee On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Ed Fletcher wrote: > On 10/04/2014 8:01 AM, Marcos Eugenio Kehl wrote: >

[tor-talk] No SMS auth on Facebook following Tor login

2016-03-24 Thread lee colleton
I logged in to my Facebook account via Tor and it was immediately locked due to "suspicious activity". After unlocking the account by clicking on pictures of my Friends I removed my phone number from my account and attempted to re-verify the number via SMS. This failed with "Sorry, there was a temp

Re: [tor-talk] transparent tor routers

2016-10-07 Thread lee colleton
To resurrect this thread, it appears that BoingBoing is now selling the Anonabox through their store: https://store.boingboing.net/sales/anonabox-pro Does the Tor Project have an official position on this device? --Lee On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Aeris wrote: > > Besides some extra torrc

Re: [tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

2016-10-12 Thread lee colleton
I've had a string of requests from Linode support staff that I block access to certain IP addresses. They've restricted traffic to my exit node several times when I've been slow to respond to their requests. --Lee On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Keeping an eye on things.