Re: [tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-15 Thread somepony
I just this evening signed up for a google mail account using only the vanilla Tor browser and a random node. I used a 10 minute email to verify the email account, I was a little surprised it got past google as a valid email domain. Google did send an email and I used the link, no phone numbe

[tor-talk] registration for youtube, gmail over Tor - fake voicemail / sms anyone?

2012-10-15 Thread fakefake
I wanted to register for youtube. For comments, voting... Youtube wants a gmail account... Failed to make a gmail account. Gave them alternate mail, correct captcha... First thing after registration they want is sms or phone verification... I have no such thing as anonymous user. Do you know any

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Collin Anderson
> > No. This is a bad idea because then everyone thinks they have the > latest tor, all the time. When people ask for support, they explain > they have the latest tor, when really their version is 3 years out of > date. Is the issue that leads to this false impression a result of not being aware

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Philipp Winter
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:25:01AM -0600, somepony wrote: > Is there a reason there is not a board or forum for Tor, or that it > doesn't come up on Google? I'm not talking Usenet or IRC, I'm > talking something my mother-in-law can find, understand and use. There are several reasons for this. Pl

Re: [tor-talk] trac user permission

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:24:31 + adrelanos wrote: > Subscribing is no longer possible. Technically, subscribing by email is no longer possible. Every ticket has an RSS feed. It's listed on the bottom under "Download in other formats:" -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 __

[tor-talk] trac user permission

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Robert Ransom: > On 10/15/12, Maxim Kammerer wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Ransom >> wrote: >>> https://bugs.torproject.org/2653 >> >> Thanks, I must have read this ticket some a year or so ago — explains >> the identical sorting approach (forgot about weighting). Strangely, >

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On 10/15/12, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Ransom > wrote: >> https://bugs.torproject.org/2653 > > Thanks, I must have read this ticket some a year or so ago — explains > the identical sorting approach (forgot about weighting). Strangely, > though, I don't see an

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Maxim Kammerer: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM, adrelanos wrote: >> As commented in >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2653#comment:10 and >> after reading the whole ticket, I believe it would be best to use a >> pin/password to determine which guards to use. > > How would you

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Hi, Is it Amnesic or can it be made Amnesic? Or in other words Can you be sure, that after deleting (or wiping) the torified AppVM no activity can not be reconstructed with local disk forensics? Could the torified AppVM be securely wiped without any leftovers? (Leftovers such as swap, or what

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM, adrelanos wrote: > As commented in > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2653#comment:10 and > after reading the whole ticket, I believe it would be best to use a > pin/password to determine which guards to use. How would you factor in changing guards

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:53:32 +0100 Matt Joyce wrote: > Agreed that having more accessibility to at least the key documents > available in other languages would be a great addition however tor is > an open source project and like all open source projects for anything > to get done someone needs t

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: > https://bugs.torproject.org/2653 Thanks, I must have read this ticket some a year or so ago — explains the identical sorting approach (forgot about weighting). Strangely, though, I don't see an option to add myself to CC. > The hardest part

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Outlaw wrote: > Hey there, Tor devs :) IMHO present torproject.org is very difficult > for average internet user. For those who don`t know english well, it > is almost impossible to find proper link. Hmm, the large purple and orange 'Download tor' butt

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Maxim Kammerer: > Hi, > > Lately, the question of persistent Tor entry guard nodes in live > distributions has been raised in a few places. Typically, the > conclusion is that /var/lib/tor/data should be made persistent. I see > it as problematic, since a live distro can be expected to be moved >

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-15 Thread adrelanos
Hi, I am only commenting by reading the Readme: https://github.com/abeluck/qubes-addons/blob/master/qubes-tor/README.md First of all, I find this most interesting! > Non-comphrensive list of identifiers TorVM does not protect: >Time zone Could that be improved by editing /etc/localtime? >

Re: [tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Robert Ransom
On 10/15/12, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Hi, > > Lately, the question of persistent Tor entry guard nodes in live > distributions has been raised in a few places. Typically, the > conclusion is that /var/lib/tor/data should be made persistent. I see > it as problematic, since a live distro can be expe

Re: [tor-talk] Review request: TorVM implementation in Qubes OS

2012-10-15 Thread Abel Luck
adrelanos: > Hi, > > released under which license? > > Cheers, > adrelanos The script is GPL v2 licensed, as the rest of Qubes. You can see that in the header [1]. [1]: https://github.com/abeluck/qubes-addons/blob/master/qubes-tor/start_tor_proxy.sh _

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread somepony
It's not just ESL, it's the lack of an easy familiar format for communication, support, and dumb newbie questions. From an outsider perspective, this list is difficult to access and lacks appeal to a greenhorn like myself (it appears to be a hardcore dev talk from the description- you know the

[tor-talk] Location-aware persistent guards

2012-10-15 Thread Maxim Kammerer
Hi, Lately, the question of persistent Tor entry guard nodes in live distributions has been raised in a few places. Typically, the conclusion is that /var/lib/tor/data should be made persistent. I see it as problematic, since a live distro can be expected to be moved around more frequently than a

Re: [tor-talk] TB download improvement

2012-10-15 Thread antispam06
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012, at 21:33, Outlaw wrote: > Hey there, Tor devs :) IMHO present torproject.org is very difficult > for average internet user. For those who don`t know english well, it > is almost impossible to find proper link. But how in the World are they going to know how to secure their

[tor-talk] keep session for more than 10 minutes

2012-10-15 Thread Snake Taste
Hi, I need to keep the vidalia/tor session with the same ip for more than 10 minutes, I edited torrc with: MaxCircuitDirtiness 3600 But it keep on changing the ip, is this the right setting? Thanks in advance ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.