[tor-talk] Need help -- File descriptors problem after update

2012-11-18 Thread survivd
Hello, I recently updated to I just 0.2.3.24-rc, and when i view my server in arm, I see the following notice types on my tor processes: *desc: 888 / 992 (89%) 04:44:31 [ARM_WARN] Tor's file descriptor usage is at 89%. If you run out Tor will be unable to continue functioning. *It doe

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.3.25 is out

2012-12-05 Thread survivd
The writer seems to have a Chinese name, and our virus scans (including Norton) show no results, but his does. Has no one considered that this might mean he's actually gotten a poisoned binary? Assuming he's operating in China or somewhere similar (and I know this is a big assumption), this wou

Re: [tor-talk] Botnets through Tor

2012-12-08 Thread survivd
I think some of the hysteria over this is overdone. > - What can be done to stop botnets abusing Tor for concealing its > infrastructure? For unpublished nodes, nothing that I'm aware of. Hidden services are called that for a reason, and it's necessarily a dual-use technology. You can't weaken

Re: [tor-talk] Wordpress blocking Tor?

2012-12-31 Thread survivd
Pretty sure this is due to people leaving comment spam via tor. I know one of my exits was implicated in a comment spam campaign, and I noticed that IP was banned from a number of blog sites because of it. If you know which exit node you were using at the time, you can write to the admin contact

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-21 Thread survivd
Seems like there's a bit of confusion regarding what a bad exit node can and can't do here. For many sites, you can trivially strip the SSL connection request as the exit node, downgrading it to vulnerable plaintext just by using ssl-strip. There'd be no cert warning, but smart users will notice

Re: [tor-talk] Email provider for privacy-minded folk

2013-02-22 Thread survivd
s (since he owns your machine... he can see your tx/rx data before you've encrypted it to the server and after you've decrypted it from the server). As a fringe benefit, this now works for him regardless of whether or not you're connected to Tor, because he owns your machine basicall