Re: [tor-talk] NPA to urge Internet providers to block users of hijacking software [Tor]

2013-04-21 Thread grarpamp
> > http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130418p2a00m0na013000c.html http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/21/229242/japanese-police-urge-isps-to-block-tor ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.o

[tor-talk] NPA to urge Internet providers to block users of hijacking software [Tor]

2013-04-21 Thread bgw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 via: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130418p2a00m0na013000c.html "The National Police Agency (NPA) is poised to urge Internet service providers to voluntarily block communications if an anonymous software system called "Tor" --

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-21 Thread Lucia Liljegren
With respect to: grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com Sun Apr 21 13:05:11 UTC 2013 I'm sure you think you somehow speak the truth about something, But I you are very confused about what people who run servers are permitted to do. They are permitted to block by IP for any reason they see fit even if

[tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-21 Thread Lucia Liljegren
grarpamp-- I know what XX is used for. That's why I added it to your lists. I thought you would want to know that. Cloudflare can block for two reasons: 1) Cloudflare itself diagnoses that a particular request should be blocked. This could happen because the IP doesn't pass some virus checks or

Re: [tor-talk] download speed

2013-04-21 Thread Asa Rossoff
The answer, from my observations, is that Tor Browser's download function operates via the Tor network, The downloads may go faster than browsing because browsing is more greatly effected by roudnd-trip trnasit time than downloading is. Web pages also often involve many components that must be do

Re: [tor-talk] Abusing resource:// uri in Firefox Browser

2013-04-21 Thread Asa Rossoff
I tested the example exploit URL in the Firefox ticket using both Firefox Aurora 22.0a2 (2013-4-12) and Tor Browser Firefox ESR 17.0.4 (tor-pluggable-transports-browser-2.4.11-alpha-2_en-US Windows package). Using Firefox Aurora, the exploit failed and was not able to access resource:// URLs at al

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-21 Thread grarpamp
> Lucia added: > Yes, I do see those codes passed in $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"]. > from time to time they contain A1, A2, O1 or XX. Not long ago someone here discovered that GeoIP is including the Tor exits in their A1 designation. So perhaps even though Cloudflare says they have no specific To

Re: [tor-talk] CloudFlare

2013-04-21 Thread grarpamp
> The IP wont' eventually be pulled if it's on rdsnet.ro. ;) Sounds like a great place for a wide open exit.. Hey Moritz.. ;) >> Some of them even have that as their advertised featureset > utterly incorrect to suggest that .. "permaban .. eventually pulled .. *Unless their profits come from*"

Re: [tor-talk] download speed

2013-04-21 Thread Juan Garofalo
At 09:34 AM 4/20/2013 +0200, you wrote: >On 20 Apr 2013 04:41, "Jlc J" wrote: >> >> Is it safe to download files using tor? When I download a file my speed >is much greater than would be a normal speed under tor, so I think >downloads does not obey proxy settings. >> (I am Latin and use

Re: [tor-talk] Individual bridge outdated?

2013-04-21 Thread eli
Since no one replied to my post, I assumed that (typos aside) my questions were indeed dumb. So I took time to really RTFM. They were. - eliaz On 4/16/2013 7:18 PM, eli wrote: > My bridge usage in Vidalia has fallen to near zero since I've installed > portable transports; as a matter fact most of

[tor-talk] Which files are required to upgrade to an obfsproxy bridge?

2013-04-21 Thread Sebastian G.
Hello list/George, one runs a "normal" bridge and wants to turn it into an (py)obfsproxy bridge, while using Windows. By using the file from the alpha Pluggable Transports Bundle (\Data\) one can do that. I copied the content of \Data\ to another folder and removed the files that are already pro