Re: [tor-talk] Botnet command server hidden in Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Mansour Moufid
On 2012-09-14, at 6:58 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> (can hardly be the first, can it?) > > We've all had conversations over the past five plus > years about how Tor would be useful for botnets. > I'm amazed it hasn't really shown up at all. Maybe > the lack of speed and larger footprint hurts more > th

Re: [tor-talk] tor-0.2.4.2-alpha compile errors

2012-09-14 Thread grarpamp
>>> What compiler is that, and version? The code in main.c has been like >>> this for a while, I wonder why it didn't come up before. See 3894. Because nobody uses it anymore :) > Should be fixed in e4ce8cd9691708d9bc0bcc9904d656fe35001946. Yes, master works now. Thx. ___

Re: [tor-talk] Logging on to Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Edward Thompson
Hi Hugh, No such thing as a stupid question! Can you give us some more information about your computer, which operating system are you using, what version of Tor Browser Bundle did you install and how... when you start it the way you do, do you see the little onion icon in the system tray? Chee

Re: [tor-talk] Botnet command server hidden in Tor

2012-09-14 Thread grarpamp
> (can hardly be the first, can it?) We've all had conversations over the past five plus years about how Tor would be useful for botnets. I'm amazed it hasn't really shown up at all. Maybe the lack of speed and larger footprint hurts more than being taken offline does.

[tor-talk] Logging on to Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Hugh Giblin
This will be the most naive question to the forum for some time but I struggle with accessing Tor. After I loaded it I don't see an icon or start up on my program list so I have to do a search each time, wait for the results and then click on Tor browser, another wait until it appears. If it does

Re: [tor-talk] Botnet command server hidden in Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:39:39 +0200 Eugen Leitl wrote: > > (can hardly be the first, can it?) > > http://blog.gdatasoftware.com/blog/article/botnet-command-server-hidden-in-tor.html As someone pointed out in irc, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operat

Re: [tor-talk] Botnet command server hidden in Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
what a horrible headline... I read it to mean in the Tor src/binary distro, not the network. Sigh. ::) best, Joe On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > (can hardly be the first, can it?) > > http://blog.gdatasoftware.com/blog/article/botnet-command-server-hidden-in-tor.html > >

[tor-talk] Botnet command server hidden in Tor

2012-09-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
(can hardly be the first, can it?) http://blog.gdatasoftware.com/blog/article/botnet-command-server-hidden-in-tor.html 10.09.2012, TS Botnet command server hidden in Tor The G Data SecurityLabs recently identified a malware sample that takes the next step in Command-and-Control (short: C&C) co

Re: [tor-talk] tor-0.2.4.2-alpha compile errors

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Sebastian Hahn > wrote: >> >> On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:34 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> >>> Some easy ones... >> [snip] >> >> What compiler is that, and version? The code in main.c has been like >> this for a while,

Re: [tor-talk] tor-0.2.4.2-alpha compile errors

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:34 AM, grarpamp wrote: > >> Some easy ones... > [snip] > > What compiler is that, and version? The code in main.c has been like > this for a while, I wonder why it didn't come up before. > Ah, I've seen something lik

Re: [tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

2012-09-14 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:42 PM, wrote: > This notice- "There is a security update available for the Tor Browser > Bundle" appears after a installing Tor 0.2.2.39 > > Is this a cause for concern? I've noticed the same thing. The notice disappears if you extract the package archive again. Bug, m

[tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

2012-09-14 Thread rwd
This notice- "There is a security update available for the Tor Browser Bundle" appears after a installing Tor 0.2.2.39 Is this a cause for concern? ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

Re: [tor-talk] One answer to the bittorrent problem . . .?

2012-09-14 Thread Alec Harrington
Ahh, thanks. Btw, torrents are not about copyright circumvention despite the fact that so many use them in that manner. It's about file-sharing, which is a great and noble thing to have, especially when one has either lost or damaged a disk for a software that they haveĀ  the user-rights to us

Re: [tor-talk] tor-0.2.4.2-alpha compile errors

2012-09-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:34 AM, grarpamp wrote: > Some easy ones... [snip] What compiler is that, and version? The code in main.c has been like this for a while, I wonder why it didn't come up before. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.o

[tor-talk] tor-0.2.4.2-alpha compile errors

2012-09-14 Thread grarpamp
Some easy ones... src/common/util.c:3903: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within macro arg src/common/util.c:3904: `#else' not within a conditional src/common/util.c:3906: unbalanced `#endif' *** Error code 1 3900 log_notice(LD_GENERAL, "Failed to terminate process with