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

2012-11-17 Thread andrew
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:20:46AM +, danhughes...@yahoo.co.uk wrote 2.1K bytes in 48 lines about: : Thanks also to "anonymous" for that link about temp files - another example not covered by just "no", that your Human Rights activist with cr*p going on in their life, or ordinary person for

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

2012-11-17 Thread Dan Hughes
--- On Sat, 17/11/12, Julian Yon wrote: Tor Browser doesn't write anything sensitive to permanent storage. What your OS does is not under the control of the Tor Browser. -- TBB design document - https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoid

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:09:04 +0100 Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 17.11.2012 18:41, Julian Yon wrote: > > Would I recommend it? No. Unless you want to do so for the learning > > experience. > > I like that I can purge IP addresses on the server side and at least > hide my own current location. That i

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:55:07 +0100 Andreas Krey wrote: > Actually, that's the line I wouldn't cross. It would mean that my > mails may get offered to other servers... (however slim the chance > that there is one.) Yes, there is that possibility. Which comes back to the bit about it being inheren

Re: [tor-talk] Appropriate methods of estimating daily tor users through your server?

2012-11-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:34:36AM -1000, Name Withheld wrote: > does anyone know of an appropriate method for estimating a > (rough) number of how many users per day make use of your node? http://research.torproject.org/techreports.html See "Privacy-preserving ways to estimate the number of Tor

[tor-talk] Appropriate methods of estimating daily tor users through your server?

2012-11-17 Thread Name Withheld
Hey guys, I noticed my guard/exit nodes seemed to be pushing much more traffic than usual during the first week of November. Happy as that made me (though it returned to the mean shortly thereafter), it got me to thinking -- does anyone know of an appropriate method for estimating a (rough) numbe

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 17.11.2012 18:41, Julian Yon wrote: > Would I recommend it? No. Unless you want to do so for the learning > experience. I like that I can purge IP addresses on the server side and at least hide my own current location. That is especially useful if you share the mail server with more people. -

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:38:24 +, Julian Yon wrote: ... > > Don't think that regular colo/VPS server promise much more. The main > > problem on cable/DSL is the usual lack of an actually fixed address. > > Yes, that's also a problem. Not unsolvable, but irritating. Actually, that's the line I w

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:06:32 +0100 Andreas Krey wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:41:12 +, Julian Yon wrote: > ... > > or dedicated server, or colocate a machine of your own in a > > datacentre. While in theory you could run a server off a cable or > > DSL line, I wouldn't recommend it. Even if

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread george torwell
thanks, i've already went the VPS way since i already got one set up as an exit node. adding dovecot to get imap and all the other protocols with the extra 's' which will hopefully be more secure than just postfix. it also takes care of the open relay problem that you rightfully mention. only probl

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Andreas Krey
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:41:12 +, Julian Yon wrote: ... > or dedicated server, or colocate a machine of your own in a datacentre. > While in theory you could run a server off a cable or DSL line, I > wouldn't recommend it. Even if your ISP is friendly towards the idea > they're unlikely to guaran

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

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:39:19 -0500 Webmaster wrote: > Your last line of > > "but some things need an understanding of more fundamental concepts > before they make sense." > > Should be Followed with the other line you used: > > "...this is not under the control of the Tor Browser." > > >

Re: [tor-talk] Private mail server (Was: i saw your response on the Tor talk list)

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:59:55 -0500 george torwell wrote: > i have a few unrelated questions, if i may. > ive noticed that you have your own mail server, which is cool. I don't have my own mail server. I use GMail's servers with my own domains. You can determine this easily from the public DNS: $

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

2012-11-17 Thread Webmaster
Your last line of "but some things need an understanding of more fundamental concepts before they make sense." Should be Followed with the other line you used: "...this is not under the control of the Tor Browser." Sorry I couldn't resist :) On 11/17/2012 10:25 AM, Julian Yon wrote: O

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

2012-11-17 Thread unknown
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:19:56 + Dan Hughes wrote: > 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 H

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

2012-11-17 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:24:35 + (GMT) Dan Hughes wrote: > The question of swap files and hibernation raised by someone else is > pretty fundamental. It's pointless and misleading just talking > pedantically about disk cache as it doesn't matter to the user > exactly what blows the gaff. > > A

Re: [tor-talk] torchat for chat room?

2012-11-17 Thread hiddenirc
Hello! We are not sure if our service fits your needs, but we are running a IRC service behind the Tor hidden network. You can create there your own channel. Maybe give that a try? qw7moadfe3bfu7o7.onion >Hello! > >I am looking for some app like "torchat" but for chat room of more than 1 >p

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

2012-11-17 Thread Dan Hughes
--- On Mon, 12/11/12, and...@torproject.is wrote: >The first question > you asked is: "Does TBB write user content to disk?" The > answer > to the first question is no, it uses ram cache only. And so most people would think does setting disk cache to 0 on bog standard Firefox, but it still lea