Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2014-01-02 Thread Greg Norcie
Was this failure technical though? Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation, If the kid had invoked his right to stay silent, I'm under the impression all they could prove is that he used Tor - not that he sent a particular email. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a high hurdle to clear. However, le

Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2014-01-02 Thread C B
I agree that we need to make Tor so simple and so bulletproof that it is not possible to use something like timing to make deductions. The fact that only one student may have used Tor introduces another vulnerability that needs to be removed in some manner. We do need to use examples of people u

Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2014-01-02 Thread Tempest
t...@bitmessage.ch: > > In the spirit of Jake's 29c3 talk, I think we can decide as a community > not to brush off high-profile attacks against people using Tor with > arguments like "oh, it was an old Firefox vulnerability and some users > weren't running the latest available code" or "oh, obvious

Re: [tor-talk] Harvard student used Tor to send bomb threats, gets caught by old-fashioned policework

2014-01-02 Thread tor
This student did some really stupid things and in many ways is a "bad example" of Tor use, but when Harvard students--even the ones who seem to have come unhinged and clearly made reprehensible decisions--don't realize that their university (or other institution's network administration) probably c

[tor-talk] Fwd: SSH on Safeplug

2014-01-02 Thread lee colleton
Of interest to anyone with a Safeplug transparent Tor proxy device from Pogoplug or concerned about their security. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Gali Birenbaum" Date: Jan 2, 2014 12:16 AM Subject: SSH on Safeplug To: Cc: Hello Lee, I would like to start by stressing the fact t

Re: [tor-talk] How to reset password on trac.torproject.org ?

2014-01-02 Thread Yuri
On 12/31/2013 04:34, Yuri wrote: How to reset trac password? It seems like Trac's handling of the lost password is very rudimentary and unintuitive. It turns out that restore password feature is broken in trac.torproject.org Admin of this page should read the discussion for this Trac ticket