Re: [tor-talk] How to protect a hidden service from DoS attacks?

2011-03-04 Thread Watson Ladd
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:34 PM, morphium wrote: > 2011/3/4  : >> Is it even possible? Since everyone is your entry node's IP, if you block it, >> no one will be able to connect to your service. > > What attack exactly? To eat up your bandwidth? "Protection" would look > the same as in the "regular

Re: [tor-talk] How to protect a hidden service from DoS attacks?

2011-03-04 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > Is it even possible? Since everyone is your entry node's IP, if you block it, > no one will be able to connect to your service. > > Some people DoS hidden services to moderate you, making them unreadable. DoS on the "external" internet seems to be 99% ov

Re: [tor-talk] How to protect a hidden service from DoS attacks?

2011-03-04 Thread morphium
2011/3/4 : > Is it even possible? Since everyone is your entry node's IP, if you block it, > no one will be able to connect to your service. What attack exactly? To eat up your bandwidth? "Protection" would look the same as in the "regular" internet: get more bandwidth. Best regards, morphium __

[tor-talk] How to protect a hidden service from DoS attacks?

2011-03-04 Thread hikki
Is it even possible? Since everyone is your entry node's IP, if you block it, no one will be able to connect to your service. Some people DoS hidden services to moderate you, making them unreadable. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

[tor-talk] Updated Firefox Warning - Updated Language Pack.

2011-03-04 Thread Matthew
I was updated to Firefox 3.6.14 for Ubuntu yesterday (I believe) Today, when using an American IP, I went to www.hotmail.com and began to sign up. It offered me hotmail.co.uk or live.co.uk addresses. I live in the UK. I am using TorButton and NoScript. Obviously, this concerned me. I chec

Re: [tor-talk] Stricter NEWNYM?

2011-03-04 Thread Robert Ransom
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:21:22 +0100 anonym wrote: > While I've been developing the LiveCDs Incognito and Tails I've got my > fair share of feature requests/bug reports that really are about Tor. > One recurring feature request is to make NEWNYM stricter. > > Users have observed that issuing a NEW

Re: [tor-talk] Excito's B3 and TOR

2011-03-04 Thread Håken Hveem
Sounds good to me! On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:26:44 -0800 Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > On 03/03/2011 04:48 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Håken Hveem > > wrote: > >> I have mentioned Tor and Excito in : > >> http://isprins.blogspot.com/2010/12/excito-b3-and-internet-

[tor-talk] Stricter NEWNYM?

2011-03-04 Thread anonym
Hi, While I've been developing the LiveCDs Incognito and Tails I've got my fair share of feature requests/bug reports that really are about Tor. One recurring feature request is to make NEWNYM stricter. Users have observed that issuing a NEWNYM doesn't necessarily stop using the previous circuits