Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:11:40 +0100 > From: t...@unterderbruecke.de > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/18/2013 05:23 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: > > With all the

Re: [tor-talk] US Senate Virtual Currency Hearing Summary

2013-11-18 Thread author
Ernie Allen from the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children was a real disappointment, insofar as his statements about anonymity and government control were incredibly myopic. If your plan to protect children is to initiate force against people of all ages, you're going to hav

[tor-talk] TBB 2.4.x Windows using more CPU than normal

2013-11-18 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Anyone noticed since starting to use Windows - TBB 2.4.x series, it using more CPU when loading pages than it used to? Even more than regular Fx. I've noticed this across 2 of the 2.4.x series versions. Haven't updated to latest - released couple days ago, yet. TBB 2.4 also seems to load page

[tor-talk] US Senate Virtual Currency Hearing Summary

2013-11-18 Thread grarpamp
Curiously, US law enforcement feels it already has the general laws it needs. Yet it needs the talent base to use them, aka: SS is hiring. The US is behind in its guidance to business... US companies large and small very much want to play and lead just as soon as a compliance/certification framewo

Re: [tor-talk] Ubuntu Dash search

2013-11-18 Thread grarpamp
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Ryan Winner wrote: > If anyone out there uses Ubuntu with Tor installed (not the TBB) and set > for SOCKS5 system-wide will the Ubuntu Dash perform its online searches > anonymously or is it bypassed? Considering the amount of handy phoning home Ubuntu does out o

[tor-talk] Ubuntu Dash search

2013-11-18 Thread Ryan Winner
If anyone out there uses Ubuntu with Tor installed (not the TBB) and set for SOCKS5 system-wide will the Ubuntu Dash perform its online searches anonymously or is it bypassed? -- Ryan The Winner -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go

Re: [tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Random Tor Node Operator
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2013 05:23 PM, Mark McCarron wrote: > With all the recent crack downs on civil liberties, seizure of TOR > services and general censorship that is now hitting even > mainstream search engines, I would like to propose a set of new > services

[tor-talk] New TOR Service Suggestions and Enhancements

2013-11-18 Thread Mark McCarron
With all the recent crack downs on civil liberties, seizure of TOR services and general censorship that is now hitting even mainstream search engines, I would like to propose a set of new services and some enhancements to the network layer to improve anonymity. We need to get as much support as

Re: [tor-talk] A great way for you to help Tor: track down recent press articles

2013-11-18 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 18 Nov 2013, at 12:42, coderman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> It would be wonderful if somebody here could step up and held lead >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10182 >> ... >> Can one of our volunteers take point on this and set up a

Re: [tor-talk] A great way for you to help Tor: track down recent press articles

2013-11-18 Thread coderman
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > It would be wonderful if somebody here could step up and held lead > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10182 > ... > Can one of our volunteers take point on this and set up a wiki page and > start tracking down articles? I th

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle ignores /etc/hosts

2013-11-18 Thread Benedikt Gollatz
On 2013-11-18 10:24, stl Rivercat wrote: > TBB 2.3.25-14 wont use /etc/hosts on my Slackware 13.1. > Even though my usual (non-Tor) Firefox does obey /etc/hosts. > The hosts file just contains ad-server redirects to 127.0.0.1. > The Tor browser goes straight through to the actual ad site. Tor does

[tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle ignores /etc/hosts

2013-11-18 Thread stl Rivercat
TBB 2.3.25-14 wont use /etc/hosts on my Slackware 13.1. Even though my usual (non-Tor) Firefox does obey /etc/hosts. The hosts file just contains ad-server redirects to 127.0.0.1. The Tor browser goes straight through to the actual ad site. I checked host.conf, nsswitch.conf & resolv.conf and I th