Re: [tor-talk] Evening Standard Article - Invisible Web

2012-04-23 Thread Tom Cheshire
Hello all, I'm a journalist writing a long feature for the Evening Standard magazine, about the Invisible Web. As part of this, I'd like to speak to Tor users about how and why they use the service. The more interesting the use case, the better, and if you're based in London that's an added bonus.

[tor-talk] Using obfsproxy without Tor ?

2012-04-23 Thread Reza Haftkhat
Hi, I'm calling from Iran. Recently, there has been updated filtering systems installed which inspect socks protocol and ban them based on their contents. As a result many people who used simple foreign socks proxies to bypass the firewall have lost the ability. Anyway, I was checking to see if the

Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?

2012-04-23 Thread torsiris
> On 04/22/2012 01:25 AM, torsi...@tormail.org wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there anything to worry about if using curl with the below >> configuration? >> (I don't want to use a virtual machine) >> >> Only debian-tor can go online: >> iptables -F OUTPUT >> iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -m owner --uid-

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha is out

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library. https://www.torproject.org/download/download (Packages coming eventually.) Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2

[tor-talk] No Browser, ContactInfo rewrites?

2012-04-23 Thread eliaz
[TBB 2.2.35-8 running on Vistax64, with bridge enabled] So, earlier I noticed a lot of continuous traffic in the Bandwidth Graph, and ContactInfo in torrc being rewritten periodically: "ContactInfo gpg 0x" going to variations of ContactInfo "\"\\\"\\\" gpg 0x\\\"\"" The other