[tor-dev] Non-endorsed methods for accessing Tor hidden services

2019-09-11 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Hi Tor-Dev, I'm sending this message on behalf of Hammas, one of my PhD students at UIowa, who has been unable to get his emails past moderator approval. Hammas and I have been recently working on the implications of visiting the Tor hidden services through services not endorsed by Tor itself. The

Re: [tor-dev] ResearchEthics

2015-10-08 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Forgive the lack of inlining. I've been meaning to respond to this for a while. For what it's worth, I completely disagree that outright "banning" of certain data collection is the right answer here. There should be a standard "let's weigh the risks vs. the benefits and make a decision" for any/al

Re: [tor-dev] Fwd: Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-04-18 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
2015 at 08:24:49AM -0400, Rishab Nithyanand wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I just thought I'd share and get feedback about some recent work from > our team > > at Stony Brook University. I posted this to the tor-talk list earlier > and it > > was suggested to x-

Re: [tor-dev] PT-themed stuffed animals: huggable transports

2015-04-01 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Agreed! In fact, our team at Stony Brook just completed a study on the huggability of current PTs. One of our results is that the Scramblesuit bumblebee fared worst. It caused some of our study participants to report us to the IRB. We in turn chose to blame David for encouraging this study. Next,

[tor-dev] Measurement of the amount of discrimination by website operators on Tor users?

2015-03-27 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out the status of this blog post (from August 2014): https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users Specifically this part: "Step one is to enumerate the set of websites and other Internet service

[tor-dev] Fwd: Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel

2015-03-20 Thread Rishab Nithyanand
Hey all, I just thought I'd share and get feedback about some recent work from our team at Stony Brook University. I posted this to the tor-talk list earlier and it was suggested to x-post here, too. Title: Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel [ http://arxiv.org/