Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Dan Hughes
--- On Mon, 12/11/12, Andrew Lewman wrote: No. TBB disables disk cache completely. What's written to disk is updated consensus and state files for Tor, temporary files for Vidalia controller authentication, and any manual changes you make to the modified firefox and torrc. We have an open task

[tor-talk] Updated Tor Cloud images

2012-11-11 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
Hi everyone, The Tor Cloud [1] images for all the seven regions have been updated to include the latest cloud image for stable Ubuntu release 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin). These new images are available on the Tor Cloud website. You will not need to start a new instance you are already running a

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + (GMT) Dan Hughes wrote: > Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick > and downloading files (.PDFs, S&M vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but > not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or > downloaded being written to the HD at a

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Adrian Crenshaw
But don't some LIveCDs write to swap space on the local hard drive IF they see one? Adrian On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Greg Norcie wrote: > If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you > really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case (barring a > cold b

Re: [tor-talk] check.torproject.org

2012-11-11 Thread Simon Brereton
I am an admin not a developer, so that might not be the best path for me. Simon On 9 November 2012 15:37, adrelanos wrote: > Become a torcheck developer. Help with these tickets: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&compone

Re: [tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Greg Norcie
If you're on a Live CD, everything should stay in the RAM, unless you really jump through hoops to write to the HD. In that case (barring a cold boot attack, which is far fetched), any data you downloaded will be gone. On a normal PC anything saved or opened is stored on the HD though. Live CDs ar

[tor-talk] What's written to HD?

2012-11-11 Thread Dan Hughes
Hello, Does browsing with TBB installed on the HD or a USB stick and downloading files (.PDFs, S&M vids etc.;)) to a USB stick (but not opening online) result in the content of what's browsed or downloaded being written to the HD at all? If TBB does leave 'content evidence' on the HD, other

[tor-talk] please test the new obfsproxy bridge debian/ubuntu directions

2012-11-11 Thread Roger Dingledine
Hi folks, George and I have put together some instructions on how to set up a Tor bridge + obfsproxy on Debian/Ubuntu: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions Getting more obfsproxy bridges up and running is useful because right now they're the best way for users in Chi