Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

2016-01-05 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Interesting thought. I've followed git history a bit (back then it was svn) and traced it back to 54a6a8f0 (tor.git). It's added to a function "router_is_general_exit" which is described as: > /** Return true iff ri is "useful as an exit node." */ Port 6667 is later chosen by Roger in 0ac3c584,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

2016-01-05 Thread Virgil Griffith
> Other protocols (SSH, IMAP, > POP3, SMTP) are indeed more popular but I feel that those less reflect > the goals of the project, and they are certainly abused more. I hear you that these are abused more. But I personally think of Tor as a mere mechanism than a mechanism+policy. For example, sh

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

2016-01-05 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Op 05/01/16 om 10:22 schreef Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > >> On 5 Jan 2016, at 19:33, Tom van der Woerdt > > wrote: >> ... >> Op 05/01/16 om 02:15 schreef Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: >>> On 5 Jan 2016, at 11:29, Tom van der Woerdt >>>

[tor-dev] [Win32] test_util.c + test_checkdir.c

2016-01-05 Thread Gisle Vanem
The src/test/test_util.c have this statement: #ifdef _WIN32 #define UTIL_TEST_NO_WIN(n, f) { #n, NULL, TT_SKIP, NULL, NULL } #define UTIL_TEST_WIN_ONLY(n, f) UTIL_TEST(n, (f)) #define UTIL_LEGACY_NO_WIN(n) UTIL_NO_WIN(n) But I fail to see where 'UTIL_NO_WIN(n)' is defined. Should not the abov

[tor-dev] Applications Team meeting today (Tuesday Jan 5) 19:00 UTC

2016-01-05 Thread Mike Perry
Hi, Just a reminder that the applications team is having its monthly meeting today at 19:00 UTC in #tor-project on irc.oftc.net. We'll likely recap the State of the Onion, and generally talk about UI/UX as per usual. Please come up with suggestions if you feel there is something else we should d

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

2016-01-05 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 5 Jan 2016, at 19:33, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > ... > Op 05/01/16 om 02:15 schreef Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: >> >>> On 5 Jan 2016, at 11:29, Tom van der Woerdt >> > wrote: >>> ... >>> 2.1. Exit flagging >>> >>> By replacing the port 6667 (IRC) entry with a port 5222 (

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Stop giving Exit flags when only unencrypted traffic can exit

2016-01-05 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Hi Tim, Thanks for your comments! Appreciated as always :-) Op 05/01/16 om 02:15 schreef Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > >> On 5 Jan 2016, at 11:29, Tom van der Woerdt > > wrote: >> ... >> 2.1. Exit flagging >> >> By replacing the port 6667 (IRC) entry with a port 5222 (XMPP)