Re: [tor-talk] google

2013-08-20 Thread Martin Kepplinger
Juan Garofalo: > > > > I'm not seeing any more captchas. Now I always get a working > "encrypted.google.com" page. That's great isn't it? > > I guess now google is directly fowarding all Tor searches to the NSA, > correct? > > Yes! They are an amazing "do no evil" American

Re: [tor-talk] google

2013-08-20 Thread Juan Garofalo
At 11:35 PM 8/20/2013 -0400, you wrote: >I'm a bit of a newb at this (all of it). But this email thread (tor-talk) >is completely unencrypted, right? And it has to be that way? This is virtually a public mailing list. Anybody can join (or read the archives), so there's no point in encryp

Re: [tor-talk] google

2013-08-20 Thread William Conlow
I'm a bit of a newb at this (all of it). But this email thread (tor-talk) is completely unencrypted, right? And it has to be that way? On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Rain C wrote: > really? can google do that? > > > > > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:23:42 -0300 > > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-talk] google

2013-08-20 Thread Rain C
really? can google do that? > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:23:42 -0300 > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > From: juan@gmail.com > Subject: [tor-talk] google > > > > > I'm not seeing any more captchas. Now I always get a working > "encrypted.google.com" page. That's great isn't it?

[tor-talk] google

2013-08-20 Thread Juan Garofalo
I'm not seeing any more captchas. Now I always get a working "encrypted.google.com" page. That's great isn't it? I guess now google is directly fowarding all Tor searches to the NSA, correct? Yes! They are an amazing "do no evil" American Company! J. --

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-20 Thread Greg Norcie
Is the anonymity offered by a modified Tor utilizing only nodes in the USA actually more anonymous than a VPN? I thought utilizing a subset of nodes was considered a bad idea? (I've seen people ask how to restict their traffic to using the top X% fastest nodes and get replies explain why this

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-20 Thread mirimir
On 08/20/2013 02:31 PM, shm...@riseup.net wrote: > mick: >> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:45:19 +1000 "shm...@riseup.net" >> allegedly wrote: >> >>> mirimir: >> Well, one can use a VPN service through Tor. It's doable in Whonix or with ra's gateway, and maybe in Tails (with persistent s

[tor-talk] Upgrading an obfsbridge to the latest alpha on git master, on raspberry pi

2013-08-20 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
A few days ago, George posted an invitation for obfsproxy operators to upgrade their Tor software to the latest version on the master branch in the Tor git repo. [1] I'm running a low traffic obfsbridge on a raspberry pi, the whole thing is rather experimental in its nature already, so decided to

[tor-talk] Number of New relays and exit nodes

2013-08-20 Thread Jon
I am wondering with the increase of number of new relays and exit nodes how this might be affecting the other ( exisiting ) relays and exits? I have noticed over the past several months that the amount my exit relay was being used has drastically dropped as the new relays and new exits have come o

[tor-talk] How much data does TBB write to disk?

2013-08-20 Thread Gerardo
Hi every one, I use a shared computer, so, to use TBB, y installed it in a encrypted area of the disk; the problem is, is quite an old pc, so is kind of heavy to run it from here. I'm evaluating to run it from a no-encrypted area, I just wonder if TBB (with no modifications from the user) writ

Re: [tor-talk] Appearing American

2013-08-20 Thread shm...@riseup.net
mick: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:45:19 +1000 > "shm...@riseup.net" allegedly wrote: > >> mirimir: > >>> Well, one can use a VPN service through Tor. It's doable in Whonix >>> or with ra's gateway, and maybe in Tails (with persistent storage). >>> But I believe that reduces the anonymity that Tor c