Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Mike Perry
mirimir: > On 10/03/2013 03:39 AM, Martin Weinelt wrote: > > > this subreddit is private > > > > the moderators of this subreddit have set it to private. you must be a > > moderator or approved submitter to view its contents. > > a message from the moderators of /r/SilkRoad > > > > Silk Road >

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:17:08PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > :https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-and-silk-road-takedown > > In many ways this is (or should be) a PR win for Tor. > > 1) No technical vulnerabilities were used (AFAWK) - this should be welcome > news to Tor users > > 2) T

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread mirimir
On 10/03/2013 03:39 AM, Martin Weinelt wrote: > this subreddit is private > > the moderators of this subreddit have set it to private. you must be a > moderator or approved submitter to view its contents. > a message from the moderators of /r/SilkRoad > > Silk Road They can have their little pr

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread mirimir
On 10/03/2013 03:39 AM, Martin Weinelt wrote: > this subreddit is private > > the moderators of this subreddit have set it to private. you must be a > moderator or approved submitter to view its contents. > a message from the moderators of /r/SilkRoad > > Silk Road Answering my own question: ht

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-02 Thread dan
Arlo Breault: >> How about changing "Your browser…" to "This browser…"? > > > Thanks for the reminder. That was one of first issues that came up > but I was holding off in case other strings needed translation. > https://github.com/arlolra/check/issues/1 > Yes, please do this :-) I have witness

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Weinelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this subreddit is private the moderators of this subreddit have set it to private. you must be a moderator or approved submitter to view its contents. a message from the moderators of /r/SilkRoad Silk Road On 03.10.2013 04:29, shadowOps07 wrote: >

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:07:00PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: :On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:34:37AM +, mirimir wrote: :> Wow. I just read the complaint :8 :> :> He was unfathomably stupid. Words cannot express how stupid he was. :> :> This has absolutely no relevance to the Tor network. : :

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread shadowOps07
Guys, There are rumors that LE arrested the wrong "DPR" guy, as a security precaution. Just read it over at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1nle25/has_anyone_considered_this/ My two cents. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:34 PM, mirimir wrote: > On 10/02/2013 07:49 PM, Al Billings

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:34:37AM +, mirimir wrote: > Wow. I just read the complaint :8 > > He was unfathomably stupid. Words cannot express how stupid he was. > > This has absolutely no relevance to the Tor network. We just put up a statement on the blog which basically says that: https://

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread mirimir
On 10/02/2013 07:49 PM, Al Billings wrote: > It was one of the things clearly listed in the court filing. > > > > > http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf Wow. I just read the complaint :8 He was unfathomably stupid. Words cannot express how stupi

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread mirimir
On 10/02/2013 09:32 PM, shadowOps07 wrote: > https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/85dc5cccf8c6 > > The charges won't stick for numerous of reasons. He will be let go. While I appreciate the spirit of those reasons, I'm 100% certain that they'll mean nothing in the US court system. > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 a

Re: [tor-talk] Silk road

2013-10-02 Thread shadowOps07
Not if he has the messages encrypted with PGP. NSA/FBI cannot crack/factor beyond 1024 bit RSA. Always, always, always encrypt your message with PGP. Congratulation to Special Agent Christopher Tarbell: [image: Inline image 1] Alias, DPR will be acquitted because the charges won't stick against

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread shadowOps07
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/85dc5cccf8c6 The charges won't stick for numerous of reasons. He will be let go. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:31 PM, kendrick eastes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:33 PM, jake.tar...@gmail.com < > jake.tar...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Of course, part of what tipped

Re: [tor-talk] Silk road

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Wolf
On 10/2/2013 3:58 PM, Shaun Savage wrote: > He got busted. > > On 10/02/2013 12:10 PM, David Larsus wrote: >> looking for a way to contact silk road.Site shut down.money at stake. > And now that Mr. Larsus (if that is his real name) has posted publicly that he has "money at stake" at silk road,

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread kendrick eastes
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:33 PM, jake.tar...@gmail.com wrote: > > Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were > intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. > > Where did you read this? > https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nl58n/silkroad_domain_states_

Re: [tor-talk] Silk road

2013-10-02 Thread Shaun Savage
He got busted. On 10/02/2013 12:10 PM, David Larsus wrote: > looking for a way to contact silk road.Site shut down.money at stake. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-tal

Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha is out

2013-10-02 Thread Andrew F
Congratulations to all participants. It looks fantastic. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing > on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage > statistics, fixes many issu

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
I would assume they were digging into the origins of the Silk Road, tracking down references as you quote below. It isn't clear how they actually got his name and if they had it before customs intercepted him importing fake IDs. The paperwork claims that this was a random customs check but that

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Ted Smith
Page 26 paragraph 38 (I think) is where it has the first indication of how they caught him. Summary: * The very first mention of the Silk Road was from a user named "altoid" on a forum * Someone else named "altoid" on the bitcoin forums advertised for developers, using

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread mirimir
On 10/02/2013 07:21 PM, Ahmed wrote: > http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html The FBI recently took down Freedom Hosting. Tormail used Freedom Hosting. I wonder whether the FBI found unencrypted messages on Tormail servers that led them to Ross Ulbricht. -- tor-ta

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
I think they were already looking for him by name when he posted on stackoverflow. — http://makehacklearn.org On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Ahmed Hassan wrote: > Go to page 24 here, and read how was caught: > http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf > He was caug

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
It was one of the things clearly listed in the court filing. http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf — http://makehacklearn.org On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:41 PM, jake.tar...@gmail.com wrote: >> Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when h

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Ahmed Hassan
Go to page 24 here, and read how was caught: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf He was caught because of this post -> stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connect-to-a-tor-hidden-service-using-curl-in-php On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM, jake.tar...@gma

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-10-02 Thread Luther Blissett
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 20:07 +0200, Leo Unglaub wrote: > Hey, > > On 2013-09-26 13:58, Nathan Suchy wrote: > > Wow are you guys really going to argue over what operating system or > > version the guy uses? He just wants help getting Tor to work on his old > > operating system. > > So it is a proble

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Al Billings
Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. — http://makehacklearn.org On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ahmed wrote: > http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html > -- > tor-talk mailin

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread jake.tar...@gmail.com
> Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were > intercepted by customs while being mailed from Canada. Where did you read this? On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:29, "Al Billings" wrote: > Of course, part of what tipped off the Feds was when his fake IDs were > intercepted by c

Re: [tor-talk] Silk road

2013-10-02 Thread Ahmed
http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html It was shutdown by the FBI. On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 15:10 -0400, David Larsus wrote: > looking for a way to contact silk road.Site shut down.money at stake. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscr

[tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Ahmed
http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/10/silk-road-taken-down-by-fbi.html -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha is out

2013-10-02 Thread Roger Dingledine
Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a release of the new

[tor-talk] Silk road

2013-10-02 Thread David Larsus
looking for a way to contact silk road.Site shut down.money at stake. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

[tor-talk] Tor page on Stack Exchange now in public beta!

2013-10-02 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
Hi everyone, The Tor page on Stack Exchange is now a public (beta) site! You can ask and answer questions about Tor on http://tor.stackexchange.com/. If you'd like to discuss the Tor Stack Exchange page itself, nominate moderators, and such, check out http://meta.tor.stackexchange.com/. Thanks!

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread Lunar
harmony: > krishna e bera: > > On 13-10-02 08:00 AM, harmony wrote: > >> The latest iteration is based on Firefox 10.0.9esr, which brings with it > >> a lot of important security fixes. > > > > I hope you mean Firefox 24.0esr or at least 17.0.9esr > > > > The link says 17.0.9esr. Unpardonable ed

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-02 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:47:37PM +0200, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:21:19PM -0700, Arlo Breault wrote: > > We're considering launching a new check, > > https://check2.torproject.org/ > > How about changing "Your browser..." to "This browser..."? > > I believe that Andrew

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-02 Thread Arlo Breault
> How about changing "Your browser…" to "This browser…"? Thanks for the reminder. That was one of first issues that came up but I was holding off in case other strings needed translation. https://github.com/arlolra/check/issues/1 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusb

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/2/2013 7:00 AM, harmony wrote: Tor Weekly NewsOctober 2nd, 2013 On September 28th, Mike Perry released t

Re: [tor-talk] panopticlick data

2013-10-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/2/2013 12:08 AM, Andreas Krey wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:43:10 +, Joe Btfsplk wrote: ... I believe in same TBB version (maybe the same in many versions) they spoof the useragent & time zone, but wouldn't differences in screen sizes & color bit ALONE, among a few users on one entry

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread harmony
krishna e bera: > On 13-10-02 08:00 AM, harmony wrote: >> The latest iteration is based on Firefox 10.0.9esr, which brings with it >> a lot of important security fixes. > > I hope you mean Firefox 24.0esr or at least 17.0.9esr > The link says 17.0.9esr. Unpardonable editorial neglect on my part

Re: [tor-talk] A new check

2013-10-02 Thread Philipp Winter
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:21:19PM -0700, Arlo Breault wrote: > We're considering launching a new check, > https://check2.torproject.org/ How about changing "Your browser..." to "This browser..."? I believe that Andrew once reported that some users interpret "your browser" as "my most favourite b

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread krishna e bera
On 13-10-02 08:00 AM, harmony wrote: > The latest iteration is based on Firefox 10.0.9esr, which brings with it > a lot of important security fixes. I hope you mean Firefox 24.0esr or at least 17.0.9esr -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other set

[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 2nd, 2013

2013-10-02 Thread harmony
Tor Weekly NewsOctober 2nd, 2013 Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that